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I can't express how much the association between "not travelling" and poverty angers me. (Greta, help me here.)

Some people choose to live in a stressless small town, work less, commute by bike, pick up their kids from daycare earlier and have a great time gardening at home. If your surrounding already feels like holidays, why the heck would you get your ass stuck in traffic or a narrow cylinder?

Oh right, talking about the horror of being stuck in an airplane for 15 minutes makes a better story when returning to work.
Typo in headline: it's > its.
That's true, but track and trace is not setup for drugs imported outside the country. The drug has to be packaged within the US for the appropriate tracking codes to be added.

As we see it, there is no legal or operational way of transforming a drug packaged for a foreign market into a drug that meets the U.S. requirements of our in-progress track-and-trace system. What’s more, there is no way to alter the law to enable importation without undermining the law’s purpose and value.

[1]https://www.drugchannels.net/2019/07/our-stat-op-ed-state-dr...
Amazon hasn’t raised money from investors since the IPO in 1997. It’s had positive free cash flow since 2003.
This is happening en mass in reality.
I don't know anyone who can afford a week annual holiday, I think...
(Canada)

... or the people I know who can afford it probably are paid WAY above the "top 10%" income earners here.
Once you actually noodle on what journalism is, "objectivity" to this sort of mindset boils down to "print box scores and shut the presses down after." An intern recording singles versus walks is fine but it's neither reporting nor journalism any moreso than a phone book is.

There is no, has never been any, and never will be "objective journalism" because it is a contradiction in terms. Journalists are tasked with telling the truth as they understand it. This involves research and the understanding of facts, sure. It also, inescapably and to the real dismay of a certain segment of the universe that, candidly, often seems generally indisposed to having a society, means having an opinion and informing that reporting through it. That opinion is as much "this is worthy of being discussed" as it is "this is wrong and an affront to decency" and both of these are necessary, inescapable, and inextricable components of journalism. It's definitional. It's what the thing is. "Objective journalism" is a contradiction in terms.

Where journalism can fail, and there is certainly a historical record of it, is believing oneself entitled to one's own facts. But that is separate from one's interpretation of those facts--and, generally though not universally, the invention of one's own facts does not end well for a journalist who attempts it (see Stephen Glass for an example).
Try to load VSCode with the same set of plugins that InteliJ has out of the box and then see how it actually behaves.
Visa card vulnerability can bypass contactless limits
Americans have become much less positive about tech companies impact on the U.S.
More people living the way you do sounds like a nightmare. Maybe it's time for all those bumper to bumper cars to re-consider their housing location, congestion, and the impacts of their commuting lifestyle, before they prevent others from living in high-density units that are helpful in preventing sprawl and un-necessary congestion. Take a bus, bike, or ride-share, and be part of the solution.
Pretty sure people everywhere buy second hand cars, but somehow car makers still sell millions of new cars every month. Surely more people can afford this kind of electric conversion kit than a new electric car.
Agreed on all points, especially our need to lean on our overwhelmingly-capable submarine force.
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With the proposed new set of EU's Sentinel satellites hopefully to be launched in the coming years, it should be trivial. That is, if the proposed mission actually happens.
I think you're entirely missing the point.

The next Democrat President will be belligerent with the use of EOs against the healthcare industry, thanks the Trump making their use far more acceptable (Trump is flinging them around on anything and everything as he sees fit to pursue his personal agenda). They will pursue policy - such as fixing healthcare industry problems - on things they can't get through Congress, using EOs. The healthcare industry is so disliked at this point, there will be very few defenders standing up against the use of EOs in that manner.

This will also likely be commonly seen in regards to environmental related issues. The next Democrat in the White House will use EOs extremely liberally toward policy in that area. Far more so than any prior Presidents have.

If you're the healthcare industry what are you going to do against a large volume of executive orders each year targeting you? Good luck fighting even a small fraction of them all, executive orders are difficult and costly to turn back. And the President can just keep burying you with them. Over the last few decades the President has increasingly been given ever wider discretion to use EOs, and Congress has largely been reluctant or plain unwilling to roll that power expansion back meaningfully. If you're big healthcare, you'll be battling the 'unlimited' resources of the largest, most powerful entity in world history, good luck.

It will soon become very obvious - if it's not already - that the best way to fix many of the malign parts of the US healthcare system, is through an abusive spamming of executive orders that chokes the whole thing to death and begins modifying how it all works. There is nothing that can be done to stop this approach, if a President decides to do it (Congress is very unlikely to agree to curtail the EO abuse). The healthcare industry would be on its knees begging for mercy in five minutes.

Democrats should properly already recognize there is no means to go through Congress to fix the US healthcare system. They had a supermajority and couldn't come close to fixing the disaster that is the system. There is one route to go and only one. They will use it, just watch. It's the obvious path.

Personally, I'm not a Democrat or Republican, more independent politically. I don't like the abusive use of EOs. At this point, given the entirely broken nature of US healthcare (and that Congress will never agree to anything that would fix it; not even remotely close), I'd support giving the next Democrat President carte blanche to obliterate the healthcare industry using executive orders. Bring it down by any means necessary.
Congrats on the funding!
I've been looking into Dgraph (and also played a bit with Badger), as well as other graph databases as a way to store chronographic event data, while enabling rich relationships between the observed artifacts belonging to each event. The problem is that the solutions I find seem an ugly hack compared to a relational solution. Can you point me to any specific Dgraph documentation or case studies for these kinds of workloads?
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My daughter invented one version with regenerating pawns. I play regular chess on my side, and on her side, she has the king, queen, and 8 pawns. On her turn, she can choose to move a piece as normal or put a pawn on any square on her half, but only if she's had a pawn captured (so off the board).

It creates a strange desire for her to get her pawns captured so she can plop it down somewhere else, and a strange desire for me not to capture any pawns.
Wouldn't that essentially constitute the same import being discussed here? You're suggesting people smuggle their prescriptions in?
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Not a good enough trade.
Random we are not. we've given this a ton of thought when we pivoted from our mass-customization marketplace: https://JuicyCanvas.com

Our clients include the full spectrum of businesses and consumers ( Uber, Burning Man, Private Schools, Medical Clinics, and Families )
> is there a simple explanation for why it's easier to allow importation from Canada than to lower domestic prices in the US?

There is no simple answer to your question.

Here are a few issues:

1. It is fundamentally difficult to price a good with a high fixed cost and a low variable cost. International pricing is even more difficult.

2. Different countries have different regulations around the manufacture and sale of drugs, which can add to the cost to manufacture and distribute in those countries.

3. Many countries with socialized medicine use their monopsony position to negotiate good/better prices for drugs. Sometimes this involves credible threats to ignore patents.

4. Fake drugs are a thing and are a real, serious problem. My understanding is that drugs that pass through Canada (and possibly other places) do no go through the same verification processes that drugs for internal consumption do.
Canada has lower drug prices for the same reason Wal-Mart has low prices--exercise of monopsony power: https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2009/12/should-the-govern.... Because the government can set prices for such a huge proportion of the demand, it can drive the price of a product from suppliers to below market prices.[1]

That may or may not be a good idea. But the reason it's easier to allow imports from Canada, instead of doing what the Canadians do, is politics. The U.S. has a long history of price regulation. After FDR, the government regulated everything from the price of milk to what airlines could charge for a ticket between Chicago and New York. That regime was almost uniformly disastrous, and starting with Jimmy Carter there was a bi-partisan move to eliminate price regulation all over the economy. So there is a huge political opposition in the U.S. to anything that smacks of price regulation.

Allowing imports from Canada effectively outsources the regulatory exercise of price setting to the Canadian government. So the U.S. can achieve the effect of price regulation, without having to actually admit that it's engaging in price regulation.

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

> The Review Board establishes the maximum prices that can be charged in Canada for patented drugs.[1][2]
They just want to prevent people from easily tabbing/scrolling away from ads.
Yeah this is cool but more like "Whale accidentally surfaces with mouth open where sea lion happens to be"

Humpback whale throats are about the size of a grapefruit and they eat mostly krill.
Does Atom provide a GUI, ER or UML designer out of the box?
There's nowhere near as much grants out there as people think. And tax payer money subsidizes but doesn't cover all the costs in many universities.
especially when they are creating wealth for the people they are taking money from
More accurate title: "study adds another piece to our (still) very lacking understanding of how bacteria beat the immune system".
I did no such thing! I have personally spoken to them and they have told me they have no idea how to use the desktop machines.

I was simply trying to explain to my colleague who has known a world with modern computers being prevalent that there are still many people that have never used them.
Sure.

At my previous position I was growing project management skills but felt my engineering skills was stagnating. I decided learning Python on the side. Based on HN recommendation, I started reading the CLRS algorithms book and implemented all data structures and algorithm with Python up until red-black tree. After that, due to time constraints I only implemented select algorithms from the graphs section.

After I had a better foundation on data structures and algorithms, I used leetcode and hacker rank as a test bed for my implementations. It is great, since the submission tests cover correctness, edge cases, memory and time constraints.

During this journey, I somehow triggered Google Foobar challenge with my Python and algorithm searches. This was the turning point—-I had tried to apply to Google before, but even with referrals it went nowhere due to my background not matching what G was looking for. Foobar, if you didn’t know, is a timed online programming challenge similar to leetcode. It consists of 5 levels, and Google will give you a phone interview if you completed level 3. This allowed me to bypass the HR filter!

So I started prepping for the interview in anticipation. I did the usual study routine—-cracking the coding interview and lots of leetcode. I wrote a lot of code on paper, completely filling up 2 notebooks. My goal was to be able to pick a random leetcode problem, handwrite the solution in 20 minutes, and have it pass all submission tests. Eventually I was able to do that for most problems at easy/medium difficulty.

The rest is just going through the interview process. Phone, then on-site, the nervously await the result. And you know the rest.

The whole journey took about 1.5 years, starting from learning python and reading CLRS. I know there’s a lot of dislike for the whiteboard algorithm interview, but in my case it was a way to pivot to SWE despite not having the background and experience, and I am grateful for it.
Brain-computer interfaces are developing faster than policy debate around them
Leap founder here: happy to discuss! We're looking for early adopters.
>The only places where public trans works well is when people don't have to travel that far.

This simply is not true. A lot of people in SD think this is true, but it is not. There is nothing structurally unique about SD that makes it a nightmare for transportation. It's just that SD as a city lacks the will and the leadership to make the necessary changes happen. Civic planning is on autopilot from the 1960s: build condos everywhere, and widen roads whenever possible. This is a recipe for continued nightmares.
The technical review was great. The tone of the review left a lot to be desired.
Hah, from the court paperwork

> For example, the packaging of the Defendant’s infringing Great Value LED Vintage Edison Light Bulb 4w Deco 2pk (Model: CAD4W22G-2P) touts 13 years of life and savings of up to $184 versus a comparable incandescent light bulb—in a product the Defendant sells for $7.72 per 2-pack as reflected in Exhibit B, discussed below.
Case 2:19-cv-06570-PSG-RAO Document 1 Filed 07/30/19 Page 5 of 17 Page ID #:5
One interests activist is anothers journalist, is anothers anarchist, is anothers communist, is another rebel, etc.

Journalists face the firing squads on all sides when someone or something in power is being called out.
> Positive Technologies found that both of these checks can be bypassed using a device which intercepts communication between the card and the payment terminal. This device acts as a proxy and is known to conduct man in the middle (MITM) attacks. First, the device tells the card that verification is not necessary, even though the amount is greater than £30. The device then tells the terminal that verification has already been made by another means. This attack is possible because Visa does not require issuers and acquirers to have checks in place that block payments without presenting the minimum verification.

That's the first time I hear about RFID/NFC MITM, neat.
Let's chat! We're working on improving our docs specifically regarding the data modeling aspects.

If your use case is open source we could even use it as one of our case studies :)

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Oh come on! Why does Hacker News allow everyone to finger "Mossad" for every wacky conspiracy? This is just a guy who like to hire underage hookers who (sadly) were readily available. There's no Great Underground Ring here.
I was hating life in general
About the NYT... after finding out that they spiked Lictblau and Risen's 2003 story on NSA surveillance until after the 2004 election, essentially at the Bush admin's behest, one has to wonder about the independence of their journalists.

Another independent example: Ken Dilanian is at NBC now, but google for articles about him running articles by the CIA before filing them.

And now I sound like a conspiracy monger.
I did some wikipedia'ing and it doesn't look like its based on reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
“Winning marathons”. That is truly clickbait. The question asked in the article is he as old as he claims, not whether he is winning any marathons.

He hasn’t won any marathons, he would however be the world age group record holder because nobody of that age has ever completed one.
The article is discussing optimizing Proton, a version of Wine embedded in Steam, meaning you can (try to) play Windows-only games on Linux with minimal effort. It works quite well, though graphically intensive games are more likely to experience glitches or slowdown from the translation.
It’s likely just sheer difference in quality of engineering. For most companies that choose Electron, performance was never of any value in the first place and that’s reflected in the engineering regardless of how/what it’s written in. It just happens that bad code is much more egregiously bad with JS/Electron than with other stacks.
Anyone who has spent enough time working in the software industry shouldn't be surprised. Most engineers I have ever worked with could care less about security. They care only about "delivering" and getting their next raise/promotion. If a security breach ever occurred, they would probably be long gone already anyway.
They also left a GitLab trail - https://gitlab.com/netcrave. We are looking at erratic, whereas they were https://github.com/netcrave
Seems like a way to limit a users access to desirable content while ramping up paid placement advertising?
I want to use Firefox on my phone, but it's UI is just so confusing - specifically the tab switching flow. When you try to switch tabs, the whole screen is replaced, the typically white background is replaced with a dark background, and the tabs are shown as tiny rectangles. And a very fast animation which makes my head spin. Why don't they just copy the tab switching from mobile Chrome?

They also have a new version of mobile Firefox, which will replace the current one at some point in the future. It's called Firefox Preview. I tried it, tab switching is acceptable, but now they moved the URL bar to the bottom of the screen. Why????? So I've uninstalled it and I'm back to Chrome.

Nobody is going to switch from Chrome to Firefox if the UI is radically different.
As a Canadian this is really weird. US, the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, will now grey-market import/smuggle drugs from freaking Canada. All because the US, land of exception-ism and capitalism, couldn't stop pricing gouging. Now US is expecting Canada to supply the entire US' medical drugs' demand. When did Canada become responsible for the well-being of US citizens?

This is akin to asking Hong Kong to supply the entire China's demand for baby formula. This did not end well for HK.

Edit: Oh sure, down-vote me into oblivion.
Most of those states have a higher cost of living than other states, largely offsetting the relatively small benefit of state income tax savings.

Rent/mortgage/utility is likely a far bigger overall concern than state income tax in the bigger picture.
> Is there any doubt at this point? It was Mossad.

Where is this coming from?

Also, why would blackmailing need someone to bankroll it? Blackmail makes money. It bankrolls itself.
The example of an "independent" "journalist" linked above is choke-full with pleads for donations. They are far less likely to be unencumbered by the need to generate income than someone with a job at the Washington Post or the like.
Can anyone recommend readings on what are the trade offs between graph database vs key value (whether its column base cassandra, or key value base aerospike...etc) and traditional acid compliant db (postgresql)
No, I'm so sick of the local cancer centers rotating corps of musicians. Want me to get stabby? Keep playing your drum hippie...
I would be interested to know if this artwork actually would actually have the same result for certain people, i.e. goths, punks, or other alternative artists.
That still seems way too cheap to me. A good battery pack would cost that much.

And as someone else said, it's still an old(er) vehicle - any incident may lead to the vehicle being totaled from an insurance point of view.

This may be OK for some consumers, but it could a big financial surprise to most.
That’s just not true. The fact that there are no countries that have been doing this for hundreds of years does not mean none have tried. Look it up. Plenty have, and it meant their downfall. Now they’re not around anymore.

You can start with the USSR, various incantations in present day Germany, and many more.

It’s not a new idea, just a bad one.
If the consumer pays the tax the prices rise, if the prices rise the consumer goes elsewhere, therefore you look at if you can reduce pollution, reduce the tax and keep the cost for the user the same hopefully leading over time to more of that wonderful thing - profit.
Sparse and reweighed learning. (With binned data.)

These algorithms are probably slightly worse but they're useful for inference when number of samples is very small. If you apply them to dense data, the results are actually not bad. Not that much worse, either, and much stronger at generalization.
I'm excited that scroll snapping has been implemented in Chrome, Safari, and now Firefox.
But why can't the committer just reformat (and otherwise improve) the patch when accepting? Why make the extra round-trips to the submitter?
> Would be nice to have a tl;Dr for us folks on mobile

Pre-commit hooks.
Its hard to tell, is the situation of the company bad ?
What were the reasons behind there departure ?
It could be a red flag, but there will always be bad managers.
Are you impacted directly by this bad management ? Are you stressed because of it ? If not, maybe you should wait a bit more to see the situation.

I am in a startup too, the management was bad when the startup situation was good, now that we are in trouble, the management approach improved.
It can change, but I think most of the times, depending of the people in charge, it will not.

So don't be full of hope for big change and think what is more relevant to you ?
Russia's S-400 completely decouples radar from launchers. Both are highly mobile. Both work in networks.

A decoy RF source wouldn't make much sense. To be a viable decoy it would need to have a similar ERP to the real thing. And at that point it already costs almost as much as the real thing, so you might as well go all the way.
It's called dead code elimination/optimization and compilers can do it without LTO, with LTO you can can get more savings but ymmv.
Maybe I am crazy and maybe I am wrong but I am going to go out on a limb here. I think drug prices are high in the US because big pharma executives annual salary is high in the US.
How is using wood as a building material bad? I would think that putting carbon into our walls and patios would be as good a place as any to keep it out of the atmosphere?
Either that or they were always empty so they can get another outrageously huge contract to "recreate" the tooling
Port 443 is special because it's dedicated to common encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) - so the port is always available are rarely tampered with. If the traffic is inspected it will resemble HTTPS traffic anyway.

It's not detection proof - but it avoids a TON of common problems with VPNS.
Realize that your time is limited on this planet and you don't know exactly when you'll die.
Kudos for trying out a better path without Electron fat.

All the best for your endeavours.
Sounds like you might enjoy teaming up in bughouse!

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