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40 year old here. Speed doesn't matter as much as WHAT you deliver. First of all, people do not know how much time something takes. And secondly, they will forget how much time it took, but not how well it was made.

Responding fast to emails is just crazy. I lost count on how many urgent problems got resolved automatically. "Hey can you help me with this". 15 minutes later "Nevermind, found it".

I'm in the "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" camp. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4FZfzqMtwQZES3eqN/slow-is-sm...
> It is disingenuous to state that they are motivated by political ideology as the overwhelming majority

No it is not. You provided one or two examples that do not eliminate a pattern, and as you yourself said- "A pattern is a pattern."

There are three problems here: mental illness, (far right) radicalization, and guns. I don't have any solutions to propose for this but saying videogames are somehow the cause of this is absurd.
The issue in [1] in a lot of cases was that the region had such cheap electricity because they were buying a defined amount of electricity from a cheap source but had a very expensive rate for going over that amount so the BTC miners were coming in and massively inflating everyone's rates but not otherwise really contributing to the region economically, unlike the Alcoa plant that originally got them that low rate a BTC miner barely employees anyone locally.
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> other countries don't have 2nd amendment in constitution

Changes to the constitution can and do happen. And it's kind of beside the point anyway because a degree of gun control already exists in the US without being in conflict with the constitution.

> US doesn't pretend to be the same as all the other countries

Clearly. You're also the only one where this is such a problem.
And let's not forget that there are non-standard "syslog" implementations that were being used for decades before RFC3164 happened. Cisco devices and AIX are the first two big ones that come to mind.

It's also worth mentioning that newlines are significant in TCP syslog (for batching log messages) but not in UDP syslog (because of frame size limits)
Organized mass killing efforts are unstoppable, but emotion driven ones are amplified by the lethality of easily available weapons and people's experience with them. Meaning that all this culture of having guns, playing with them, knowing how to use them is the reason mass shootings can happen. You can't shoot lots of people with a kitchen knife if you suddenly get passionate and emotional about killing people.
And the effort required to kill a number of people with a gun is significantly less--like, to the point where the "but but what about that?" verges on ludicrous--than knife crime or acid attacks. Gun violence requires less specialized knowledge and provides fewer opportunities to catch a criminal before their plan goes off than bombings. And vehicles have overwhelmingly more legitimate use than guns that present a meaningful and socially valid argument against their restriction where guns have no such value.

Which is why this is low-hanging fruit to deal with and long past due.
That is great to know. My experience with them was a few years ago (2016 or 2017, I forget). I've not used "proper" cabs in the UK since then and visit at least once per year.
Well, look at tooling... and in the bridge analogy; material selection.

Look at the bay bridge, we built it using steel from china which, after it was already being used to construct the span was later found to be inferior.

So in SW dev -- you might choose a tool for a massive project only to find its the wrong/not best tool you could have selected based on the budget at the time the project started.

This can also be said of the team. Employee A was the right eemployee at the start of the project, but they later prove to not be the best resource, but youre already X% down the project timeline... what do? Esp at what cost.
If you're really interested in to actually know how and why something could be exploited I'd recommend reading a lot of reports from HackerOne, Bugcrowd etc.
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Good ideas were also suppressed under those conditions. Look at Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Socrates.

Allowing all ideas a fertile ground to grow and gain followers is important.

Allowing individuals with a small social reach (e.g. live in a small, conservative, remote town) to access a wide range of ideas is important.
Picking that person as the average boomer is as fair as reading the FBI crime statistics.
Agreed. The sort of radicalization that's going on at 8chan and the like serve no legitimate public interest. Think I'm wrong? Then explain to me why this sort of online domestic terrorism academy is good for the public. Explain how any single person improves the world by participating in it.
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The sheer amount of guns owned by American civilians compared with the rest of the world is staggering, and, maybe not so coincidentally, so is the amount of gun related homicide. [0] The fact remains that even you in your comment called it a problem. Guns and gun ownership are the common denominator when it comes to mass shootings, and very little, if anything, is being done about it.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
Sure, but none of those have anything to do with the ideological beliefs of the person or organization they're providing service to. Those are all reasonable restrictions designed to prevent one customer from negatively impacting the quality of service the company provides to their other customers. What Cloudflare is doing here is a different thing entirely.
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Ah that's really interesting. Well that is a huge difference between the US and Europe I suppose. It really differentiates about how you think about cabs.
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Which then means that, as a side effect, you need to reject features!

Features bring side effects and complexity. If your goal of FLOSS includes allowing anyone to add a feature, that puts your goals in conflict.

And, to get back to the topic; I somehow doubt it's possible to support all major modern HTML, CSS, and Javascript requirements and keep the code immediately accessible to newcomers and casual coders. The only way to keep the goals out of conflict is to have a simpler version of the web.
They target the interest rate buy printing money to buy bonds

"The central bank influences interest rates by expanding or contracting the monetary base, which consists of currency in circulation and banks' reserves on deposit at the central bank"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy
This is a very strange idea of what Free Speech is. The reason Free Speech is related to government is that government has a monopoly on violence. Government can turn up with guns at your house and stop you speaking in a way that no other body can. What is happening here is very different.

Cloudflare isn't preventing anyone from saying anything. All that is happening is Cloudflare is using it's freedom of association not to associate with this website. This has nothing to do with 8Chan's ability to publish what they want - only their ability to use Cloudflare's services to do so. As the article mentions - because the US has the principle of Free Speech enshrined in law, 8chan has the ability to go and use other services, or to develop the services that Cloudflare provided. This will not impact 8chan's ability to publish whatever they like.

Now there is a theoretical point of view, that if a company has a monopoly - it is effectively able to police speech, but that's absolutely not the case here, as is demonstrated in the past by companies going elsewhere to exercise their right.

What is being proposed as an understanding of Free Speech is not allowing private individuals from refusing to service to you. This would seem to be mandating someone to act - which is a principle quite far away from any law I've heard of.
Was English high or low around the 1700s/early 1800s? A lot of Southern mannerisms and formalities are based on English traditions around the time of the colonies. Especially the rural south.
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Ask HN: How can I infer generalities from a bunch of dichotomies?
The Köppen climate types is a typing of climate. Goyder's Line is a dichotomy of climate. Some scientist expert took Goyder's line and created a generality from that particular: climates with more than 250mm of rain (all else equal) are Mediterranean, and climates with less that 250mm of rain (all else equal) are dry semi-arid.

So somehow, somebody took a list of yes-no questions ("does this area receive 250mm of rain or no," "does this area receive mean 200 hours of sunshine or no,"...) and inferred generalities from them. Say by looking at a sample size of 20,000 areas and evaluating them according to those yes-or-no questions and looking for generalities based how the land areas were evaluated by those yes-or-no questions taken as an aggregate.

But this is so tedious that there has to be an automated way of inferring generalities given a list of binary options and a population.
I would absolutely take the train if it was somewhat comparable in time to flying, but that's only true for very short trips. For example, so go from SLC to SF takes ~2.5 hours by plane, but around 18 hours by train. If it was under 8 hours by train, I would take that instead so I wouldn't have to deal with airport security.

I don't know about Europe generally, but I know the train system there is much better than in much of the US, so I'm not surprised that it's a more popular mode of transportation.
why not disconnect facebook too,they've been a platform for quite a number of these
I have created a to-do list for the start of each calendar quarter. It includes things like:

* Replace toothbrush heads (electric)

* Spring clean two rooms in the house

* Download backups of all email accounts

* Download backups of all cloud web sites

* Sync external hard drives to cloud archival storage

* Download QIF and QBO of all bank accounts

It's quarterly. Worst case scenario, I lose last three months. And by doing it quarterly, I usually add to the to do list, and it's a catch-up.

Cleaning two rooms of my house take the longest time. Everything else can be done in about 1-2 hours.
I think it will get much worse. There is around $80B worth of advertisement locked in in the cable TV just in US.

This all will come eventually to online and large portion to UGC platforms supporting video, so YouTube, FB, Twitter, ...

Maybe more people will start paying for premium version if available (like YouTube Red).
Mikey Dickerson is a fairly public figure, so in this context I think it's fine.
It's important to Americans because it's been sold to us as a fictitious part of a national identity. The gun industry has very successfully crafted this narrative, to the point where so many people take it for granted now, but it wasn't always this way; this is a thing that developed in (depending on age) some of our lifetimes.

Here's a book that takes a closer look at how guns took on this sort of mythic role -- more special than other tools and appliances -- in American identity:

https://www.pamelahaag.com/books/gunning-of-america/
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Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and the website is the New York Times among others.
I think the “brilliant asshole” narrative just fits better with the west coast’s (generalizing here) need to armchair psychoanalyze everything. Even in the rare cases where it is right, amateur talk therapy is often low- or counter-productive to solving the problem at hand.

Everyone is bad at giving constructive criticism to some extent, just like everyone is bad at receiving it to some extent. Clickbait that muckrakes LKML does not absolve anyone of the responsibility of finding a way to be productive with someone they don’t like.
Is it though? Alpha radiation is nearly trivial to block, clothes or just a couple centimeters of air is enough to block most alpha radiation and it's not particularly damaging even if you are exposed to it. The camera body is going to block 99+% of the alpha emissions so even holding it up to your face isn't going to pose a big risk.
By what logic do you exclude Central and South America from the discussion?
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I know I'm a little late here, but intermittent fasting is actually a pretty trendy thing in the valley right now because of increased mental clarity.

I didn't start it for the mental side effects, but I haven't noticed any strong negatives during my day job. I get 4-6 hours of meaningful work done and then my brain is about finished like most days.

Many people who do IF actually suggest working/playing to keep your mind off the hunger as it's easier to ignore when you're busy.
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> You couldn’t just shoot an rpg at all of them

Yes, a single explosive projectile wouldn't be too effective, but consider an RPG round loaded with cluster bombs, shrapnel, or flechettes. Or the good ol' pray-n-spray with small-arms fire. You don't need much kinetic energy to kill a human on a hoverboard (or at least knock him off).

Helicopters put all of your eggs in one basket, but least it's a somewhat armored basket.
The concept of free speech does include the right to be heard in that if I want to hear what you're saying, the government preventing me from hearing it is just as bad as preventing you from saying it. It takes two to communicate.

However if I don't want to hear what you say--or I don't want to help you say it--the government is not going to step in and force me to do it.

The distinction is really about depriving vs. providing.

People get it mixed up in their heads when it comes to contractual relationships like Cloudflare. On one hand it is grammatically correct to say that Cloudflare is "depriving" 8chan of their service, since 8chan used to have access to it. Legally, though, 8chan never had any right to Cloudflare's service. It was a privilege that was revoked.
Gordon Moore had a chemistry degree but point taken
A century ago most housewives were farm housewives.

You believe that in 1919, at the end of the first world war, and just 10 years before the Wall Street crash, most housewives lived on farms that didn't have electricity or running water? The population of New York city in 1919 was a little over 5.5 million people.
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Oh yeah I should add that on the title
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Really enjoyed that!

Minor nitpick though:

> Another thing he used to say a lot was “when you punch someone you need to pull your arm back, before you launch it forward. If you don’t your hit will be weak.”

This is not true.
Do you agree with the law prohibiting the maintenance of an up to date and accurate gun ownership registry?
Not true.

I'm working with C++/Qt/QML/Javascript. No need to maintain 5 codebases.

Just a single codebase compiles to at least 9 platforms: Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, *BSD, Raspberry, QNX and WebAssembly.
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> You don't need deepfakes to fool boomers on facebook.

You don't need deepfakes to fool millenials on Facebook. You could just take statistics that could support your narrative and claim they do. They'll smash that share button so hard...
The issue that many developers have with time tracking is that it requires you to either translate your work into management speak in order to appease the management, or write what you're actually doing and have tons and tons of small blocks in your time tracker that make you look like you're being unproductive and trying to obscure something. Both options add unnecessary mental overhead and interrupt any possibility of having a "flow state".

Writing code and working on software is not a linear process, so writing "worked on feature X" for your entire morning may be accurate, but it's not fine grained enough for what the managers want to see and it doesn't really serve any purpose at that point when you already have daily stand-ups and sprint meetings every week.

This likely isn't the case at all companies and with all managers, but I suspect many have the same experience I've described.
For the sake of argument - what about more alive people, but with more dead animals / species and with failing ecosystems if something would not go quite as foreseen with crispr method? That question is becoming more and more important as humanity has such larger potential of affecting the rest of nature - how much more valuable is human life over everything else on the planet...
Which puts it around the same price, but with a train, you don't need to deal with airline security. I'm sure the situation in Europe is less ridiculous than the US, but it's still an extra process.
So your presumption is that all the people calling for background checks and that have drafted and passed a complete background check law have not considered any of this, or looked at any data? And despite not actually knowing yourself you're comfortable dismissing it as something you "highly doubt"?
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For me as long as they are biodegradable, then that's ok. Recycling them isn't that much of issue. It's the plastic materials that are introduced to the ecology and do not biodegrade in the short term that is problematic.
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I once had to open an old 24mm Pentax lens that my parents handed down to me when I started photography. The aperture was stuck due to some old grease, and with that the lens barely unusable. The fix was pretty easy, and the whole process of understanding all the tiny mechanics of a lens were a lot of fun, but at the same time it was incredibly stressful to have those optical elements so exposed.

I couldn't image doing the same thing with a current lens that also has all those electronics in there.
Just wanting to clarify -- are you likening the shooter's manifesto to the works of Socrates?
What could one possibly have to learn from these right wing extremism (and many other such groups)? The ideas, beliefs, and everything else they promote has been consistently been established as nothing but baseless drivel. Some ideas shouldn't be endlessly debated, they should be pushed out of the discussion and prevented from having their toxic ideas spread.
At 10,000 karma, the downvote option gets taken away again. Then you need to get 500,000 karma to get it back.
An old NREL report from about 5-10 years ago is floating around somewhere that shows that ~77% of light vehicles (ie cars) in the US can be transitioned to electric without any additional grid generation capacity.
Thanks for sharing! I like the simple design. One piece of feedback I got when I wrote a blog post about mental models [1] was that mental models are easy to understand, but people struggle to figure out how to actually use them. In addition to the examples, it would be great to add concrete applications to each cards.

[1] https://nesslabs.com/mental-models
That's not how a post mortem works. You want to identify the root cause of an incident and any factors that increased the impact or prolong the incident. Solving for every possible scenario is how you end up solving for nothing. Playing the "what if?" game leads to an infinite set of potential problems and time, being finite, means you can never succeed

When we've solved for the current problem, we can address the next worst thing. We won't know what that is until it happens.

We could also solve for knife and sword attacks because there was that one time in Japan where someone murdered a bunch of kids or chainsaws because of that other one time that guy had a chainsaw but we do more by staying focused.
Yeh it seems weird to mix clients and services together. Apple’s numbers are almost entirely for a mail client, while google and yahoo are all a service. Who knows what they mean by Microsoft but it seems like their are counting outlook.com service numbers but not Outlook client numbers.
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I don't understand how any of that relates to what Cloudflare is doing here. 8Chan isn't poisoning the water supply or back-feeding 1000V into the electrical grid; they're just making normal use of Cloudflare's service just like any other customer.

Are you implying that ISPs are sending arsenic down my pipes when they service my request to load a web page from 8Chan? In that case, I'd argue that the websites I choose to visit are entirely my decision, and my ISP denying my request to connect to 8Chan would not improve their quality of service to me in any way.
> I think shipping jobs overseas has had a catastrophic impact
on wages and jobs

On the flip side this is also what has contributed so much to global progress in terms of increased wages globally, increased standard of living, life expectancy, literacy levels, and every other measurable positive progress indicator. I'm conflicted as well.