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> Currently your international relations with most countries are in shambles.

That's an empty, meaningless claim. Even if it were true (it's not), it simply does not matter very much. When Obama was in office, it was celebrations, so to speak. When Trump is gone in N years, normalcy will return, even if it requires some relationship repair. A few years does not matter in any grand scheme when it comes to relationships between the US and eg France or Britain. One President is not going to wreck relationships that are hundreds of years old. Trump is not worse than what Bush put us through with Iraq 15 years ago when it comes to international relations, not even remotely close.

> You've got a nearly 20 year war going with Afganistan over a terrorist attack that wasn't sponsored by the country, and it doesn't look like the Taliban is going to actually disapear.

That's a bogus premise. The US didn't go into Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban. The US achieved its primary objective in Afghanistan a very long time ago - neutralizing Al Qaeda as a globally threatening, effective, large terrorist organization. Removing the Taliban and establishing a stable democratic Afghanistan, is the stretch goal that was always going to be very difficult to accomplish. It's questionable that such a thing could be accomplished short of fully occupying every inch of the country and pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into it annually. Is the US going to fail to achieve an impossible goal of nation building a democratic Afghanistan in under 20 years? Yeah.

> Your other misadventure into Iraq completely destabilized the area, and resulted in creation of ISIS.

That one is partially correct. It's the dictatorships of the Middle East (nearly all nations in the Middle East are without functioning democracy and most are very illiberal; the US has introduced two of the few examples of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan), their systems of government, and Islamic extremism, that perpetually destabilizes the region. Some of that mess is entirely localized, some of it has been introduced by foreign powers over centuries. You already know that of course, the Taliban (the theocratic group you mentioned the US is failing to remove) are a prime example of it. There is no such thing as a stable dictatorship or stable theocracy (they require constant threats or applications of violence to hold their positions). Nearly all dictatorships in modern history have resulted in disaster and chaos in their wake. Whenever Saddam's regime fell (however long that would have taken without the US involvement), it was always going to result in the sort of chaos that we've seen in Iraq, as the country is a forced-together bifurcated society of conflicting factions. The US should have never gone into Iraq, however it's also false to pretend that Iraq was stable or functioning well before that (What does a wildly violent, murderous stable dictatorship mean exactly? That's a contradiction in terms. Stable in what regard, the lack of all basic human rights and democratic institutions? Stable in the application of consistent terror to oppress the people?).
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It seems that we had the same discussion 2 years ago on HN :). I can't find any authoritative source so I'll concede. The guys at RWT are pretty sure it is an VLIW though.
And in a non bulleted sentence below that it notes that 1 million Canadians social insurance numbers were also compromised.
You might like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is usually my first stop when digging into a new thinker.

For example, here's the article on Marx: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/

A friend who is pursuing a BA in Philosophy says it's the only online source that they are allowed to cite.
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It's a GitHub hosted shared document, open to all. Feel free to add as many others as you'd like!

I've been enjoying ancient Chinese proverbs lately, such as:

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

;-)
Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.
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A normal "excuse" is that html is "easier" (LIES!) and if you wait loooong enough the performance will catch up.

I concede css make styling far easier than any native toolkit.

And is true that most UI toolkit are so unfriendly that make html+js look soooo good in contrast.

But native development have been far simpler, productive and easier for solo developers before: Delphi, HyperCard, Smalltalk, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic prove it.

My experience is that most developers I know (in latin america) prefer 1000% of the time (maybe not exagerating by much) to code in that tools than html.

Html/js is dreaded. Is like "damm... I MUST do html and js because... what choice I have?".

The huge indictment of our industry is that it bet in a subpar tech (html/js) and have forgotten to invest on UI toolkits.

Look how much take Apple to get swift UI. Decades!

Decades!

And it have hypercard before!!
Newbie question: Would it work for publishers to key off of IP address instead of using cookies?
The small and medium companies that seem to be rethinking IT security are the ones hit by a cryptolocker.
Lol but what about the person who makes the pizza? Taking 30% is steep.
Fair, JS is everywhere and serves many use cases. The implicit "we" in that statement is developers 2019 who are building client side applications that need to get a lot done, run in most installed browsers, and remain maintainable to a 5-8 year horizon. Not everyone for certain, but probably enough to generalize, at least on this forum.
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> but IIT was not be-all end-all. There was always DCE, REC.

Its a way to use as filters at later stage of life. Job or marriage (see iitiimshaadi.com). Top 2% or top 10%.
At this point, publishers should probably just accept that any tracking is unacceptable, so if they want people to pay (and therefore login), then they need to stop funneling data to ad networks and other PII aggregators.
philosophy majors use https://plato.stanford.edu/

not sure the motivations behind this list. a nice blurb about it's contents would be nice.
This talk by Dr Sadoway is pretty amazing regarding his team's design for utility-scale liquid metal batteries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRrvxjrJ1U
It's an hour long, but it's well worth the time investment.

This is not merely a theoretical technology. A company has been created around this technology: http://www.ambri.com

(I am not connected to any of this, but I am quite excited by it.)
I agree that gold and fiat money are both faith-based, and I want to emphasize that I am not a gold-bug--almost all my assets are in revenue-producing real estate.

There is, however, a massive qualitative difference between gold and fiat: fiat has an adverse selection problem. The government that issues it can print as much of it as it wants, and it's more likely to do so precisely at the times when the country is in trouble.

Gold depends on faith, but failure of faith in gold isn't as correlated with failure in the rest of the economy.
Instead of making everyone sign a stack of papers stating that their dog food doesn't contain human remains, the legislature could simply pass a law stating that you pay fines and/or go to jail if your dog food contains human remains. That way you avoid punishing people who act in good faith for the misdeeds of those who didn't.
Will they get rid of that chin bezel? Most android phones except huawei have them, and it's very 2016.
"There Is No Me Without You" is another good book. It's a bit more personal and looks at the AIDS situation in Ethiopia, but an excellent read:

https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Me-Without-You/dp/1596912936
Which was quite frustrating for us that only ever surf in incognito.

Now we'll see what their response is, probably something moronic as 5 views per IP.

Better to just require an account straight up. Then there is no point for anyone to link to them and we will get rid of the whole "will I be able to read this link mess".
All I know about Alcibiades comes from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. That should be reliable history, right? The game presents him as a beautiful, oversexed, Machiavelli/Loki character. He practices upon our country bumpkin hero's credulousness relentlessly.
First, I'll note that you haven't addressed the "unlimited land" part at all. Shall I conclude that you agree with me, at least, that appropriation of native land was one of the pillars of US wealth creation?

> butter production in the southern states where there was "unlimited free labor" was roughly 20% of the national output, even though they had 40% of the total dairy cows.

So from this one example, you're extrapolating that slavery did not play a major role in the creation of overall US wealth? That is a... bold claim, to put it lightly. It is not supported by contemporary historians, and your other comments don't exactly inspire confidence as to your mastery if History, so forgive me for being skeptical.

How about you start by telling me, of the 13 original colonies, how many had slaves? And, perhaps, how much wealth had been accumulated in the original colonies before they abolished slavery?

From there, perhaps move on to researching how slavery enriched the North, even after abolition.

> I'd also like to point that during the peak of the British Empire in the late 19th century up to the early 20th century, the British had by that point outlawed slavery.

I fail to see how that is relevant to the US.

Before you take your British Empire comparison too far, you might want to research the origin of the empire's wealth during the 19th and 20th century...

I'll give you a hint: it's explained in this book, which I recommend reading if you're interested in this topic. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32618967-an-era-of-darkn...

> I'm roughly 25% "native" like you keep referencing to.

Oh you're Native American, that's great! What tribe?

Not only does your genetics test not matter, by claiming native heritage in this way you are participating in something which actual Native Americans find problematic.

If you want to learn more on this topic, here is a good starting point: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is...
I wanted to reply in a snarky way but your question raises a very troublesome and deep problem to which a solution if it doesn't come right way will certainly condemn our successors to basting in a hothouse earth with too little energy for a recognizable civilization.

Have you thought about what could be offered up in the way of positive incentives for responsible behavior? Do they need to be positive incentives rather than overwhelming disincentives?

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the one stop shop for most purposes.

With any one philosopher or topic as a starting point, the additional resources and bibliographies will be about as good as you can get for a curated list.

https://plato.stanford.edu/
Shallow copying will create a new object, and thus, some (small) amount of GC garbage. Less than a deep copy, for sure, which means less frequent pauses, but still garbage to clean up nonetheless.
> while their subscription terms continue to be asinine

Agreed. The only official way to cancel a NYT subscription is to call them. Infuriating.
It does to me.

100m people losing a minute of their life to handling this (lets call it nanodeath) is 190 continuous years of wasted time that you could have spent with your family, napping, reading or other pleasurable life things.

That’s the kind of math that, say, an insurer, should do to determine whether an intervention should be paid for.

But usually you just get called a monster for doing that kind of math.
Yes, but with a significant false positive rate due to IP address sharing, and you can get more articles by switching IP’s (unless someone else exhausted the new IP before you got it).
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Ah, you're right. They call them "barriers" instead of "fences", so I didn't pick up on that paragraph.

Still, C11 and C++ atomics aren't widely implemented yet in the GPU world. OpenCL 1.2 doesn't have them (and OpenCL 2.0 is not commonly implemented), CUDA doesn't have them yet, AMD ROCm doesn't have them yet.

And anyone with older compilers will probably be working with fence intrinsics, instead of "innate" barriers per atomic instruction.
C'mon down to PhilPapers.com!
I adore pattern matching when done well, but I'm sorry -- that syntax seems terrible and confusing. The use of `{ }` seems arbitrary. In JS braces are already used for both scope-delimiting and object literal notation; now they're going to have a third job? There has to be a better way.

I understand it's based on destructuring; the syntax still just doesn't work for me.
This is also why I quit Instagram, as I discussed further in another recent post. After implementing their "algorithm" the app was completely ruined. It clearly just caters the same repetitive mindless content to the lowest common demoninator
Why is this a bad thing? The tone of the author makes it seem like this is catastrophic. Is it?
Oops my bad! Sorry end of a hacking session didn't fact check :) Unintentional. Thanks for setting the record straight.
I am becoming tired of the word "curated" unless it is being used in a context implying a qualified curator. This could be someone's random list of browser links for all I know. Who are the curators of this list and how are they qualified for me to are about their "curated" list? I don't necessarily mean formal qualifications. Also, curation implies active and personal involvement (as opposed to passive analysis based on statistical measures of relevance or citations). Why in this case would I prefer personal curation?
Actually, it’s primarily because Saudi is a “pivot state” (to use zbigniew brzezinski‘s terminology) for the US in the region. Much like Japan in east Asia.
https://plato.stanford.edu

A great collection of philosophy resources which was indispensable during my undergrad philosophy studies.

Search by philosophers, traditions, what have you!

[edit: I see I was beaten to the punch by a minute! Apologies for the double post]
One of my problems is that even with the publications I subscribe to, I still get plenty of ads served up to me. This problem is especially acute with the NY Times, where their Android app seems to have an issue loading both ads and content efficiently.

I guess that this situation is a result of trying to find the right balance in pricing.

That said, if I was guaranteed ad-free content, I would subscribe to more publications than use incognito mode to get around soft paywalls.
I think this first model is for enthusiasts who can afford it and want to fund the development. It won't be perfect yet. If you think about it as a donation it makes a lot more sense.
You're right but it's a reference to Mike Pence saying it a few weeks ago.
They should think hard about their next move because all that these paywalls have done is make it so I don't read their articles, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Maybe I'm the only one? I'm definitely not signing up to read them either.
At least as far as NYT Digital goes ... I can cancel my subscription online with the click of a button.
What about kids that fake having an imaginary friend because they heard about imaginary friends?
I had to track those right after Fukushima, since there were worries about a cloud headed towards the western US.
Link: https://historyofphilosophy.net
Well, I can imagine a list of, say, physics resources that does not contain any references to the works of ancient thinkers.
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Not really. Problems arise when you have many people behind the same IP. You can hand-wave this problem away for family units behind a router, but you'll soon find out there are entire institutions (schools, office buildings with lots of unrelated companies in them, etc) that will share an IP.
Send me your money then, thanks!
It was a rhetorical question based on a well established meme, but HN is generally a humor-free zone. And does one really need a philosophy degree to seek the truth? It's not that hard to find.
I was reading the book and enjoying it until I got to this part. It was so wrong in so many ways that I put the book down, not able to trust anything else in it.
Assuming they planted native tree's then they should be fine. Tree's don't need ground aquifers, they create them. They pull in moisture from the air and gather it from the rain. They stabilize the soil which helps to drain and collect the water effectively tunneling it into the ground aquifers. It's common knowledge where I live that if you want to bring water back to your property then you need to plant grass and tree's on your property.
Did anyone else find the 350M number implausible?

They claim it happened in 12 hours. Unless they're talking about planting seeds, I find it hard to believe and take this story just as a political stunt.

Ethiopia's population is 100M. Did 10% participate in this somehow, and each person plant 35 trees across the country?

How would you even get that many trees to plant?
One of the companies that offers that model is Lambda School.

You might be right for Baltimore, but perhaps this could be a good idea for other places.
It's not the same. For instance, you could not use a `const` variable.

Also having "phantom" scope blocks get very nasty to read once you have more involved logic, as the block itself has no implied meaning and the programmer has to walk a few lines into it to get what's going on.
Described problems are not unique to monorepos.

If changes in some component's repo cause this component to break iOS, but you absolutely must use this change right now for Android, you will be left with branching too. Or, maybe, specifying different versions, if you use more complex packaging than git submodules, and only if android and ios apps are not built from single codebase.

Modularity is when APIs are well-defined and there's no unnecessary coupling. For example you don't know where public API of your component ends. Monorepos help here: it can make it clearer because tests will fail sooner when you break API contract because as soon as you make changes to component, these changes will be tested against users of this component.

I regularly have all described issues (except large number of files) without monorepos.

The real stopper is that to introduce monorepo you need advanced build system with dependencies between targets, which include tests (if tests already ran in previous build, and nothing is changed, don't run tests for that piece of code again), and that requires hermeticity. Almost impossible with e.g. Rails app and regular CI.
Why Big Tech Keeps Shrugging Off Bad News
> “For the most part, there’s no widespread consensus on what triggers it,” Kidd told me. “There is, however, widespread consensus on it being a normative part of development."

FTA.
Except you're not really solving the right problem.

The problem is not that the standard library is bad (It could be shite, it could be gold, it doesn't really matter). The problem is that regardless of what's in your "standard" library, you will have a VERY long tail of users interacting with your code in a user agent that just doesn't support it. Period.

So I think you can rephrase this whole conversation as not "make a better standard library!" but instead as "how do we bootstrap a better standard library into user agents that haven't been updated in 10 years?"

In which case suddenly NPM/Babel/Webpack start to make a lot of sense.
They all don't need to stay alive. They just need some of them to take hold and grow and then spread seeds so that new trees grow, like a normal forest.

The idea is to plant 350 million knowing that a lot won't survive, but that in planting a huge amount, many millions will survive and nature can take over.
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I know engineers are in demand and we are a high priced commodity but is it unreasonable for a company to expect you to be in office at a certain time? The standup at my current project is at 10:30. And most of us here come around 10.
Same with the Economist. They must have crunched some numbers and determined this is more profitable.

I usually “unsubscribe” from these kind of services by changing my credit card to an empty prepaid one and let the payment bounce.
I'm no expert, but from what I heard CLT can achieve fire resistance similar to concrete. (Measured in minutes it can withstand a particular heat.)

These sources are far from unbiased, but nevertheless:

http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/crosslam-timber-f...

https://www.woodworks.org/wp-content/uploads/presentation_sl...
The concept of "identity theft" (i.e. the hacker stole your identity vs. the hacker used false credentials to steal from the bank) is probably the single greatest feat of social engineering of our times.
The thing about superdeterminism is that it's only interesting if you want to argue philosophy. If you're dealing with hidden variables (or even measurement errors) the only practical tool in your box for handling them is probability distributions.

So either way, you've got a probability distribution. And at this point people just apply Occam's Razor and get on with their lives. You can theorize an infinite number of systems that work exactly like the real world. The question is whether they're useful.
That is one app’s unique and shady policy that most customers are not aware of. Doordash customers that tip probably think the tip is going to the driver, but it’s really just going to doordash and subsidizing their costs paying the delivery person.

I really don’t follow how you are confused people are complaining except maybe you don’t fully understand the situation well enough.
I can completely see it. In the hands of a controlling manager, it can be abused. My manager recognizes that we're usually in the office by 9-9:30 so we walk regularly at 9:30.

Late day meetings are great too if it works better for the team.

In my team's case, we also walk or ride bikes together at lunch. So we can also use that time if necessary, but usually we just keep it casual.
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I wonder if there are enough use-cases for .flat to not default to Infinity.

It's also confusing that `arr.flatMap()` is not equivalent to `arr.map().flat()`, but to `arr.map.flat(Infinity)`
> It's a GitHub hosted shared document, open to all

So literally the opposite of curated?
Large scale NAT is one reason that would fail. Some mobile carriers have most of their customers behind a handful of IPs. Wikipedia has dealt with this a lot, and has a page explaining why conflating an IP address to a person isn't usually the way to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_addresses_are_not...
It's great for users because their privacy is improved in incognito mode.

It's bad for publishers but not catastrophic.

The tone of this article was very alarmist. The author says opening incognito is an "intrusion attempt". That's not what this means.
> Without fail, the websites detected the intrusion attempt and prevented access to the content

Using incognito mode in the browser to make it a bit harder to be tracked (without even blocking ads!) is "an intrusion attempt"? Excuse me? That's absurd language.
Yeah - basically the ketchup of the day. Worcestershire sauce is apparently the closest extant thing, as it’s made in pretty much the same way - fermented anchovies.