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And I think it’s fair to ask if those ideas, expressed hundreds of years ago, are still “100%-blanket-statement-correct”, or if they should ever be modified based on changing societal conditions.

Blind faith in a political figure from several centuries ago is, to me, as ridiculous as blind faith in an imaginary magic sky deity.
You're taking the "best" part too literally. Obviously, smart people also work on other things, and adtech has not hoovered up 100% of the available talent. Think about it as a normative statement: it's weird and not good that our society is organized so that working on something so inessential is a sensible choice for smart people.

I'm a research scientist at a major hospital. The work itself is fascinating and important--we're figuring out--and fixing--the brain. At the same time, keeping this job is also a ridiculous luxury because of how low the salary is. An adtech job would easily increase my salary 4-5x; a friend from my department went to a FAANG company and makes literally 10x more than I do. If someone in my family got sick, I'm not sure I'd have any alternative but jumping ship to finance or adtech.
A fine sentiment but what about the fact that the Home Ministry claimed that there were "intelligence inputs of terror threats, with specific targeting of the Amarnath Yatra"; which was clearly a lie in retrospect.

This just strengthens my claim that all this was done in a manner resembling a coup. It doesn't look good at all.
I genuinely do not believe the access to the guns are the issue here. There are plenty of ways to accomplish something like this without a gun, so removing the guns from the picture would just change the method. It's lazy to just say that "gun control will fix this" because you're ignoring solving the actual problem of why people are doing this.
Some other ones:

* threats of violence

* blackmail

These may be entirely verbal, and yet are considered serious crimes.
I might add: violent and deadly.
The report is assuming that road transport will go to whichever technology is cheaper, and that current learning rates for batteries and wind/solar will continue for the next 25 years.
> Under a scenario of total road transport electrification [...]

I think 30-year oil investments are relatively safe if this is their threat. I can’t see this happening in less than 30 years.
Most people who are into film do not agree with you, hence the fact that higher frame rates being better is ambiguous at best.

Nobody is disputing that higher resolution is better. You have most of an industry screaming about the terrible trend of higher frame rates.

I’m glad that you prefer it, but that doesn’t make it an unambiguous benefit.
Can you provide some examples? I think FAA is usually involved at all stages and should those planned TFR be a pain safety-wise (e.g. encroach on a landing pattern), Pentagon is told to come back with a better plan.

Those two organizations work together all the time and know what works, so such conflicts are rare, but in a direct confrontation I think FAA easily wins.
Yeah, this stuff is really twisted
> the special status of Kashmir is laid down in the Constitution of India; with the provision that any change to that effect should be mutually agreed on

Wikipedia says Article 35A "was added to the Constitution through a Presidential Order" [1] via powers granted by Article 370 [2].

I am unfamiliar with the Indian Constitution. But 370(3) gives the President the unilateral right to "by public notification, declare that [Article 370] shall cease to be operative" pending only "the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of the State" [2]. (Recommendation, not consent.)

There is no requirement for mutual agreement. Article 370, and thus 35A, are wholly executive prerogatives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_35A_of_the_Constitutio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_370_of_the_Constitutio...
I did not know. Still, the other cases apply.
Yep. The thought process you describe came on hard once I actually had my first child. The tech that dominates today is just pushing bytes from client to server in the pursuit of some business person's perception of value for the fleeting moment - all we write is dust in the wind. Failing getting a the chance to work on some truly novel technology or research, my next work move will be a big company where work hours and load is better respected.
American logic: let's ban websites, not army-grade weapon.
(I live in a large city in Germany and use public transport for everything that's beyond walking distance.)

Anecdotally, I briefly considered getting a driver's license just because it gives me more options how to spend my vacation. Going to a certain place and driving around to explore the countryside is much more convenient with a car (either self-owned or rental) than by train. I ended up deciding against it because of the high upfront cost of getting a driver's license, and because I would probably not be a good/safe driver if I would not be driving routinely.
> 15 seconds of Google and you can see how your first statement has little support

It’s great that you researched 15 seconds about Brazil. I live here, so what do I know... Your link is basically saying things are getting better, but who knows, they can get worse in the future, because god forbid the press admitting this president has done anything good.

> Privatizations to covert deficit?

First, what I said was that the economy was on the way to start growing again.

And yes, absolutely. Did you know Brazil has more than 400 state-owned companies? We absolutely must cut the deficit caused by the reckless spending that broke the country in the past.

> I could go on

Apparently you can’t, because you just dismissed all the other points with some scare quotes and no substance.

> I suggest you to read more factual information

Like 15s of google?
> Money supply is always estimated. Modern monetary systems don't have a single person with a monopoly on creating money.

That actually seems like the sort of hand-wave that the accounting industry exists for the sole purpose of opposing. There are a small number of groups licensed to create money by lending, and it is likely they have very accurate records that are to be made available to financial authorities.

It may be that the central banks don't bother to use their power to get an accurate figure, but there isn't much of a question that the quantity of money emitted by the system is a precisely known figure. And most of it only exists electronically.
To a certain point, money is happiness. Maybe the solution is checking out and fighting for reduced hours, while doing fulfilling things with the extra money you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.

(While at the same time looking for another job.)

Just try to not get fired in the meantime.
>Claiming that oil is subsidized is a tired trope.

Precisely. Energy of all types receive subsidies, and oil receives fewer subsidies per unit of energy produced than other types of energy. And, in most advanced nations, it's taxed at extremely high levels on the consumer side.

We need to reduce our fossil fuel use, we get it. But this idea that we only burn oil because it's subsidized is bunk. Oil (and coal) is cheap, regardless.
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People choose their religion, too.
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While that's true but not every application of green energy required a battery to operate.
There's going to be a minimum cost though and it's higher than 20$ per barrel. At best, producing oil at those price levels is going to be not very lucrative. A lot of the remaining oil out there is getting quite hard to produce meaning the cost is high. E.g. Shale oil becomes a loss leading venture when the prices drop that low. This wikipedia article suggests that 25$ is sort of the lower boundary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics. I have no idea if those numbers are correct but they are probably much higher than 20$ per barrel.

There is of course plenty of oil left but it is not the same cheap oil that we were used to last century where you basically stuck a pipe in a ground in a place like Texas and cheap oil would come out. Most of that oil is gone. Also, not all oil is created equally and some oil is a lot nicer to work with than other oil when it comes to refining it. Which is why the US still imports oil from the middle east. Refining is not free either obviously and actually uses lots of energy. Ironically, a lot of wind/solar is being used for that.

This is indeed not news. Oil investors have known this for some time and have been voting with their feet. Also, most EV owners are well familiar with the fact that the cost of recharging is peanuts compared to filling up a car with petrol/diesel. I'd say that 20$ is going to come down by 2-4x over the next 20 years.
I think it’s more like a black-list. Nazis? White supremacy? Pretty obviously black-list.

Is nazizm fine if the political winds change a bit? No, of course not.

And I’m not saying “blanket censor an understanding of these things in historical context”. That would be insane. But I am saying - just maybe, consider stopping giving free, entirely unregulated platforms for black-list extremists and terrorists to spread their message.
no, I don't think want to ban the truth as we know it via evidence.

I'm not precisely defining what the law is, in NZ we have hate speech laws. Everyone still goes around with their own unique ideas, sometimes shitty ideas..... like when they mistakenly conflate genetic sex and gender identity, or talk about race as a scientific concept when really that's quite an ambiguous term ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) ). Its not even about the "truth" so much, I'm an atheist, but I believe in religious freedom and peoples right to believe in things I believe to be completely false. It's about making sure groups of people, especially minorities are free to live their lives according to their beliefs (not necessarily without criticism ).

NZ Law society did a pretty good summary recently

https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/practice-resources/practice-ar...
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@tobiaswk - good job with your apps! I completely agree with Android and UI design which is painful. Flutter is far from perfect but a non designer can create something pretty decent. Users appreciate the experience.
This is a very selfish view. Plus, I don't think it's even valid.
The problem is a pay bump usually only motivates you for so long. Once you are above a threshold and don't have to worry about empty pockets (so you meet a subjective minimum standard), every additional $ might motivate for a period and then the effect is weak or gone. And then you need another pay bump to motivate you.

On the other hand horrible managers, colleagues, or general work conditions will grind you every day, long after the effect of that pay bump wears off. Bad working conditions of any kind are far more effective at dragging your spirit down than money is effective at pulling it up.
> There are a very small number of groups licensed to create money by lending, and it is likely they have very accurate records that are to be made available to financial authorities

Every bank is authorized to create money through lending. These range from large, domestic institutions with modern accounting systems to tiny shops in Italy or Greece overseen by an ECB with dollar liquidity swap lines [1]. The estimates are pretty good. But they must always be remembered to be estimates.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_liquiditys...
The argument is that oil via combustion engine vehicles compete against renewables/gas/hydro/nuclear via battery-powered electric vehicles in a single transportation energy economy.
I doubt the price of 700euro for a plane ticket. I just checked and got Munich-Amsterdam for 98 euros.

https://www.google.com/flights?lite=0#flt=/m/02h6_6p./m/0k3p...
Very interesting stuff

FYI the calendar link in July 28 should probably be a href="/nominations" instead of "nominations". Clicking it from outside the home page brings you to a 404.
This is the future of electronic money. Companies will decide for you what you can or cannot buy.
You are probably correct; IANAL and have only a cursory knowledge of the matter.

But I don't believe any recommendation from the Constituent Assembly was received to the best of my knowledge.
It's absolutely insane that we have to pay 19% VAT on train tickets in Germany while kerosine is tax-free. I think the Greens are now calling to reverse this situation, and I fully support that proposal.
Moravec's paradox is still in full effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

It only makes sense; brains were doing navigation and control of bodies for billions of years before they were playing chess.
Yeah, the current president loves it because he's free to spew complete lies 24/7.
I believe you that it's genuine. But no. Look at other countries. Look at the history of gun control laws in Germany or other countries and their effect. Shootings like this are 100% caused by the easy access to guns.

If someone does not have access to guns, it's harder to do something like this. It gives time to think again. Organizing different attacks gives law enforcement a chance to catch someone planning it beforehand.

HN is not the right forum to discuss this in detail, so I won't go further into this. But it's better to think about this than to follow Cloudflares lead.
I'm genuinely curious in which countries squatting is not illegal.

On the other hand cutting off utility service to squatters seems like somewhat different case and another thing I'm curious about is how the squatters managed to get the service itself in the first place as that usually requires either consent and active participation of previous user at the same address or proving that you have legal right to use the property.
To understand what makes something real, we first have to understand what makes something fake.
You could basically find out which days someone has diarrhea and what medicine they used based on search history, whilst the friends know only that was shared.

Google is the scariest company out there.
And the good people will bad-mouth you later. Losing you further potential good hires.
>> Somehow we got to the Moon. But now companies are so bloated that even doing nothing requires 30,000 employees.

The Apollo program had 400,000 people involved at it's peak.
> “People like us make our money in the seams of things”
Who said it: a Senior Official at the National Security Agency (NSA)

I find this sentiment to be terrifying when it comes from the government, let alone the NSA.

Government employees should be worried about nothing except than the efficient and legal discharge of their legal obligations/goals. I hope the wider context of the conversation makes this more innocent than it initially sounds.
And there goes freedom.
If you read my previous comment you'll notice that I am only describing the culture. I am not refusing to accept anything.
In general: GET can have caching, POST should not. However, if you are dealing with internal only systems, it doesn't really matter. Browsers and some tools have optimizations and expectations around what can be done with different HTTP verbs. Maybe your load balancer could see the same GET request and serve a cached value (as long as it counts the body in its caching logic). If you are not hoping to take advantage of GET caching, just stick with a POST.
The biggest advantage is easy GUI creation, especially with animations and custom styling. Stuff that you can do with Flutter is basically impossible with native Android. You also don't have to deal with the insanity of Activities and Fragments.

Qt is pretty good, and QML has decent animation support but I think their mobile implementation is still very alpha, and since being acquired (again) they've kind of refocused on embedded devices like cars where they actually make money. Also it's not free. And QML is a bit less elegant than Flutter. It practically forces you to write spaghetti code.

I don't know how you'd use "C++ with native views" on Android, and I've only heard bad things about Xamarin Native.
Not snarky: maybe it doesn't matter if it looks good or not, beyond optics?
> So that means, you need a battery. The price of the battery, its decay and so on, has to be taken into account

That is the analysis they have done.

> If everybody would go electric Today, the price of a battery would go to infinity, as there is not enough supply for that demand.

I don’t understand why this is relevant, they are talking about a comparison for projected costs in 25 years, there’s plenty of time for battery production to increase, it would be 15% a year over that timeframe even for a total transition, and the industry is currently sustaining 75% a year growth.

25 years seems like a long time, but it’s a relevant timescale for oil investments made today and in the next years.
Sure, people are free to want anything. Acting on their wants may be another thing.
Because they just influenced public discourse in a negative way. They shouldn't have taken any action now. In two month would still be time to act on this if it's still deemed the right choice then.
Good point. Thanks. I do think that limit is obvious and equal to 4. The point tends to 4.

That said, I also agree the "growth rate" thing is coming in a little too quickly there. It's meant to foreshadow derivatives in the next chapter, but it seems like maybe it's introducing confusion to the reader.

I went ahead and made some revisions to try to ease that connection of the "slope of a secant line" as an estimate of "growth rate" of a function.

That said, no matter what I do, this is one of those "object equivalencies" in calculus that there's no way to really make for someone. At the end of the day "slope of secant line" and "growth rate" are two different objects that in the context of a mathematical model are equivalent, but in a mathematical vacuum, are not. I write about this a little bit at the end of the book here: https://www.geogebra.org/m/x39ys4d7#material/fxpkwpt7

Sadly, the resolution for you isn't really very concrete. To get another person to "learn" an object equivalence is a challenging thing. There's really only two options: 1. tell them. 2. put evidence in front of them and hope they make it themselves. I went for option 1 after sprinkling in a bit of option 2. I've tried to slow it down a bit more, but of course, every learner will be different on when they're ready to make this important connection.

So at some point or another, this speed-bump needs to get hit.

If you have more thoughts let me know!
This sounds like executive privilege in the US, which basically is unilaterally added or withdrawn by the current president.

If so, that would explain why no one in that article is complaining about the legality of the move.
"It's nice while a hate speech ban matches everything you agree with, but too easy to pivot into something worse."

This kind of argument always strikes me as a rather poor defense that basically reads: we cannot find a perfect solution/system, so we're not going to do anything.

In reality, no system is perfect and can be abused one way or another. The task is to find a cost/benefit trade-off that most people are comfortable with. Instead of arguing that nothing should be done because it can later be abused, just own up to your value system and acknowledge that this is the cost of the way you frame/uphold your values and you are prepared to pay it.
"Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and French all have three-form systems. Swedish and Danish have ja, jo, and nej. Norwegian has ja, jo/jau, and nei. Icelandic has já, jú and nei. Faroese has ja, jú and nei. Hungarian has igen, de, and nem. German has ja, doch, and nein. Dutch has ja, jawel, and nee. French has oui, si, and non."

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So the area where you live was never hot and humid before?
As a private company, cloudflare is in the right to cut any clients at any time if the contract allows.
Why do they compare absolute figures? Is it surprising to you that fossil fuel subsidies are greater than renewable subsidies by such a measure? How much does each industry earn in taxes?

>Yet this fact, so inconvenient to the conservative worldview

Can you explain what "the conservative worldview" is for the readers? Sounds like the author has an obvious political leaning.
I'm not sure this is a great example.

"n’est-ce pas" is literally "is it not so" - to which a reply of "yes" would mean the same in English.
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As someone who kind of remembers 73 in England, the coffee is way better now. Also we had some epic strikes and power cuts back then and a splendid 73% market crash. After decades of relative economic decline we decided to join EEC, the predecessor to the EU after which things recovered economically from the 'sick man or Europe' to the fastest growing economy in Europe until we recently voted to go back to the good old days.
> Army is all about how to kill other people.

Not necessarily. The purpose of armies is to win wars. If it was possible to win wars without killing people they wouldn't kill people. In fact they are trying to minimize collateral damage. It's different with white supremacists. They have a direct interest in killing people. There is no collateral damage for them, which is also why they do mass shootings and the army usually doesn't.
I'll be very clear about what I want. I want companies that facilitate speech to be forced to tolerate all legal speech on their platforms. It's that simple.

In the 1700's, when we were having the debate over speech protected from government interference, someone could have easily said "yes well if you don't like the government's policies you should go to another country!"

The existence of alternatives is irrelevant to the fact that freedom of speech is sacred and forums for speech - public or private - must never infringe upon its freedom.
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Probably because overall Python startup time is still dominated by site.py/pkg_resources spidering the filesystem and importing half the world; as long as that exists for most users, it's hard to be motivated to make speedups anywhere else.

cf. https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/510

The problem is so bad that it's one of the top quoted reasons that hg is considering a gradual rewrite to rust:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan
So, why didn't the interviewer ask the important question about apparently excessive swearing?

It's as if interviewers are lazy and guess.
Do you think software developers get paid for completing the features or for the hours spent hitting keys?
Although the content of the article is rather interesting, the title is very clickbaity.
Disclaimer: if you're in a situation where you're paying credit cards with other credit cards, you're actively courting financial ruin.

That said: in the US, credit cardholders are inundated with balance transfer offers. Frequently, this involves the credit card company mailing checks to their customers. These checks work just like they are attached to a checking account, but they are backed by the underlying credit card. I am aware of a few companies that juggled credit card offers in this way to get off the ground.
> Aren't Al Quaeda and ISIS websites shutdown all the time

Ironically for your argument, Cloudflare hasn't really shutdown any alleged ISIS sites. This was even noted in their first blog when shutting down the Daily Stormer.
Although I would highlight - there is additional high risk now if the sensor becomes faulty, in which case, more insulin could be delivered for incorrect levels while you sleeping, etc.