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Spraying poisonous chemicals can be very effective, but may harm life forms other than mosquitoes.

I wear a bug shirt as an effective alternative to bug spray.

https://www.bugshirt.com/

Some DIY trap/attractant research and ideas:

https://permies.com/t/115296/critters/trapped-mosquitos
https://www.bg-sentinel.com/ (see design of device)

-yeast (do not stir), brown sugar, filtered water
-common trap design uses 2L bottle cut near top with top inverted and placed into lower section. mosquitoes fly into funnel-like area and lay eggs. important: opaque cover to block light, black supposedly attracts mosquitoes.
-things to experiment with:
-5 gal bucket design: inverted funnel, insect screen lid, fan to disperse attractant
-other attractants: used clothing / shoes (soles) / octinol lures
-soap to reduce surface tension to drown mosquitoes
-some say bread works instead of yeast
-other types of sugar
-baking soda / citric acid or vinegar CO2 source (quick reaction, need to slow down)
-mason jar (hydroponic) net pot - line with screen and make hole in bottom
-fungus / mushroom CO2 sources
-bt dunks in areas with standing water
-3d print container/components
-build bat house (benefit: guano for compost)
I think we need an overall shift in incentives in academia before that will change. Popular conferences see an all time high in submissions, though I do not have data on that I'm sure Journals face similar problems these days. I feel like that's not an aspect that will get better in the short term.

On the app/phone app thing: Ah, fair enough, sorry about that.
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Would you expect the FBI to investigate every moronic shitpost on every social media outlet?

I think you're setting the bar too high. That's a lot of effort, a lot of resources, for something that can be solved in other ways (ie. controlled access to devices with the potential for mass murder).
> might be a myth idk this is what some people claim

It was a flawed list of too-specific rules that were self-contradictory or incomplete in a bunch of places, and indeed that became part of the mythology about it in gun circles.

But it also directly outlawed clones of the Kalashnikov and AR-15 rifles that have been preferentially used (for fairly obvious reasons) in much of the recent violence. It worked, within its domain.

No one likes the ACA either, but you can still buy insurance with a pre-existing condition. Same deal. The gun folks like to conflate "flawed law" with "useless law", but that's not how it works in practice.
Indeed, often in the US you could do better without the public defender. Many public defenders push their clients into plea deals despite innocence to save time.
Most companies have similar polices for much milder infractions. Amazon kicks out customers all the time based on random algorithms. So does Google. And Apple. At least cloudflare clearly has human review and even writes a long blog post to explain their decision. And we're talking about a site that incites violence. So I'd say cloudflare has at least a much more transparent policy than most internet companies. As far as timeline, it's about on par. One day you're in, the next you're out. That's the norm these days. I'm not saying it's not fucked up but until we start regulating these companies, this is what we're stuck with.
In the US, governments can put money on trial[1]. In the US, the same jurisdiction can be used to put any piece of land on trial as well[2].

> how does the river have money to pay me?

The remedy at the end of a lawsuit may or may not involve money. Not all successful suits result in financial transfer.

> why pretend the river has rights?

The article addresses this. By giving rights to the environment, harming the environment is punishable by default, even if you come up with a completely novel way to do it.

In our current system, you can harm the environment until someone notices, write a law or rule, and then stops you from doing it.

There's precedent for other living things to have rights[3], so where do we draw the line? Why can't an entire, complex ecosystem have the same rights as a human or a monkey?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...

2. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/in_rem

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
Except you can always assign the result of CountChildren to a `childrenCount` variable. Is there a variable name you could give to the result of `parse` that'd accurately describe the error states?
I actually worked as a production electrician & lighting designer for a couple years, and I can say from my experience that IATSE is a cancer on the industry. I wouldn't join or support a union for computer technologists.

My main concern for the tech industry is that a union is fundamentally exclusionary. It's survival depends on preventing competition- any other activity it undertakes is only to serve that goal, or to justify it.

Unions prevent competition by demanding exclusivity in a company's labor supply, they prevent competition from new entrants by being outright hostile to young tradespeople (in most trade unions, it's basically impossible to join without sponsorship form an existing member), and they prevent competition among members by fixing wages, suppressing the earning potential of the most valuable employees.

Once a union has succeeded in restraining trade, it can extract monopoly rents from the flow of labor. At best, this looks like an ever-growing university-style administration that exists to justify its own existence. Unions can never exist to create net value, only to capture it, and that by necessity means that value is destroyed by their existence. They're antithetical to the principles of fairness, openness and inclusiveness that we claim to value.

Moreover, why would we even want a union, on an individual level? We (American citizens with a BSCS or similar) each already hold a golden ticket directly to the gentry class. We are, by pure luck of nationality, already privileged beneficiaries of the American coastal tech boom cities, of American currency and political dominance of the past seven decades, and of our restrictive immigration policies that artificially inflate wages for computer professionals across the country above their global equilibrium price. A CS graduate today can reasonably expect to be a millionaire by midlife, if they choose to save accordingly.

And if you don't like having to work late sometimes, you have the option to take a job that doesn't require it. If you don't want to live the Senior SRE lifestyle, you don't have to.
I'm still mystified by what supposed competitive edge the Apple Card is supposed to have. Its rewards program is pretty mediocre, and virtually every Visa/MC/Amex supports Apple Pay seamlessly as is.

I'm pretty bought into the Apple ecosystem and do almost all my spending via credit card. I feel like I am supposed to be the target market, so what is the selling point?
I have been asked by many a non-native question how to respond to such questions, or even more generally how to use "yes" and "no" in English.

My answer is "use a full sentence". If they insist on using "yes" or "no" because the answer is too long, I say "you can say "I do" or "she isn't", that isn't too long is it?

But if they promise they just want to know how people use "yes" and "no" while communicating and they really really won't try to use it, the answer is it's "yes and no agrees with the main verb in the full sentence of the answer _unless_ the question used a negative verb, in which case the only valid response is 'no'".

If necessary, I can explain: The reason this works is because if you have a question with a negated main verb, the questioner is making an assumption, and you need lots of words to contradict a person's assumption to set them right. Therefore "no" means "your assumptions are validated", whereas "no blah blah blah blah blah" means "let me destroy all your assumptions and rebuild the world in this fashion".

Since I speak with so many non-native speakers, I tend to speak like this automatically. Not every language has words for "yes" and "no".
Whats the difference between 8chan /pol/ and a terrorist telegram group? The telegram group probably has fewer people planning attacks on US citizens.
Do you complain when liberal writers don't get hosted on Fox News? Or when liberal guests don't get as much air time as conservatives? Do you want congress to clamp down and make all sides get equal air time and newspaper time? This 'everyone should host my political agenda and his agenda....ad infinitum, all equally in time and space', is not just ridiculous but impossible. They're a private company doing the same as CNN or Fox, deciding not to host what they don't agree with.
Refusing service to people based on their ideology or sexuality is vastly different to refusing service to people who threaten harm to others.
KFC uses Grubhub for delivery, unless something has very recently changed.
I think satellite price/availability in rural areas is expected to advance much faster than cell service in the coming decade or two, so you shouldn't expect your current intuitions about which is appropriate where to hold. My impression is that almost all of the upcoming cell tech comes from packing tighter cells to enable higher bandwidth in crowded urban environments without much changing the cost of providing service over wide rural areas. Have you heard different?
If you use Magisk, which is one of the most common ways to root nowadays, it not only roots, but allows custom software to be installed "systemlessly". This means in most cases, SafetyNet won't be able to detect a rooted phone.

Just like with jailbreaking, smart people will always find a way around these barriers Apple and Google put up
Better still, train a learning machine (or a collection thereof) based on their expertise, and use that machine to augment the experts and reduce tedium/repetition, or even reduce error rates below what you'd see in the field otherwise.
Yeah, absolutely. It's a numbers game, just the same as bombing your opponent's barracks or airfields in a conventional war. It doesn't wipe out their capacity but it degrades their infrastructure and communications.

I’m sure some level of banning and administration makes sense on content sites (not so sure about DNS/WAF hosts) but I’m curious at what point it becomes “feel good” slacktivism while these guys just hop onto the next forum.

They do, but it's not a smooth transition and sudden forced migration presents an infiltration opportunity because there's an avalanche of new user IDs with no way to verify them. Of course there are ways around this, like challenge/response phrases, callbacks to famous threads that people would remember, user IDs that can be checked back against contemporary screenshots etc., but it's pretty leaky.
Finally! Engineers at Porsche have successfully cloned a car into a bear.
Why should salts be stored elsewhere? If you have some high-security other storage, why don't you store the password hashes there?
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Talk about a slippery slope, let's really defend the Nazi message board? No, burn it down, and any and all other websites that allow white nationalists to effectively build communities.
Primary discussion (over 500 points, over 500 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
Not allowing cryptocurrency purchases with a credit card is good, for the same reason we should not allow credit cards on Robinhood.
They host and indirectly disseminate media, just like a news network. Do you expect Fox or CNN to host views they don't find acceptable? If we're going to accept that biased media is legal (news networks) then biased media is legal (Cloudflare), although you'd have a harder time making a case of bias against Cloudflare in comparison to the former.
> Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019

That bill would do nothing to combat these mass shooters. I can't think of any offhand that have bought their weapons through private sale. Most don't have a criminal record so they just buy them from random gun shops.

So if it won't solve anything related to these incidents, what's the point?
If you don't mind sharing, could you describe the types of learnings you were able to get by tracking your mood over time. I'll totally understand if it is something personal and you cannot share. Thanks so much!
I have opinions on this topic, but they are unconventional and so almost no one is going to align with or find resonance in the ideas I'd express.

Anyway, when it comes to online communities, almost no one does it right, and so not only is the consensus wrong, but so are all known examples.
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Decide how much you are willing to risk for a particular bet. Managing your money in betting is important, thus only bet an amount that you are prepared to let go, but of course, you don't have to give it away easily. Play and bet this on a good bet and try to make it profitable as ever.

Learn about the different types of sports bets and know where you think you can increase your chances of winning. Aside from the simple wager of betting on the team that will win, there are a lot of other types of bets that you can participate in. You can bet on the number of goals in a soccer game, or you can also bet on the placement of two or three drivers in a Formula one race - indeed, finding the type of bet that will likely give you good chances of winning is one strategy on how to win at sports betting.

https://lifetimewords.com/the-advantages-of-online-sports-betting/
This is literally why monopoly market power is bad.Even if you were not technically the only seller in the market, high transactions/switching costs can amount to more or less the same thing.
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It's my understanding that it will be easier to get an Apple branded credit card than most cards with similar features and rewards.

To get no fees and cash back rewards, a lot of banks make you jump through hoops, have better than average credit, maintain a linked account with a minimum balance, and other things.

Apple also seems to be emphasizing the simplicity of its card, and making it easier to manage than many other cards currently available.

It's not the right card for everyone. But if there was a single "best" card, then there would be only one card, and everyone would have it.
Can I buy Warcraft gold? Or rmb?
I’m thinking about getting it for online purchases with Apple Pay and Apple purchases (maybe).

It’d be a replacement for my Citi Double Cash, but even then the only real difference would be daily rewards vs monthly.
I disagree: Free speech absolutism will still involve community sorting.

In the long-term, without moderation and community standards, the bad drives out the good. If you work in a place with an absolute asshole, and nothing is being done to deal with this person, you're more likely to quietly leave for greener pastures. Meanwhile other assholes might find a kindred spirit, and join up. Repeat these interactions for a while, and you're left with a community of assholes and a toxic culture.
Is this like the “yeah no yeah” phenomenon?
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While this post is from 2012, much of it applies very much, especially when building your own systems/(micro)services:

>The actual reliability of your system depends largely on how bug free it is, how good you are at monitoring it, and how well you have protected against the myriad issues and problems it has. This isn’t any different from traditional systems, except that the new software is far less mature. I don’t mean this disparagingly, I work in this area, it is just a fact. Maturity comes with time and usage and effort.

Working at Uber on larger systems, it’s surprised me how much more effort we’re putting in operating the system reliably, vs the upfront planning/design (and we spent a lot of time on planning/design). I wrote in-depth about those practices and here’s the relevant HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462349
It's relatively easy to find another job in tech. You should always be aware that you can, in fact, peace out of the culture or a boss is shitty.
I think I read that if you lose your Apple Credit Card they will issue you a new one automatically in Apple Pay. You'll still get the physical one in the mail later, but if true that's a better UX then what all other cards currently do.
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> Avoid ‘false accomplishments’. These are your responsibilities, described in the past tense. Until you’ve shown an impact, it’s not meaningful.

That's just wrong. These are talking points and are the basis for your "experience", which is important to discuss.

> Enrich your resume with numbers and accomplishments. Instead of ‘Was building a web application with [X] and [Y], write ‘Led the development of [X] feature, integrated it across [Z] products, resulting in extra [Y] in revenue’.

You probably don't know the revenue at a company of any scale larger than 10 people. More importantly, these numbers likely mean nothing when applying at a different company (even if it's the exact same position in the same industry).

> Omit the Summary and Objective sections. In 9 cases out of 10, summaries and objectives are not impressive.

It's not supposed to be impressive, it's supposed to be informative and a talking point.

> Use modern fonts.

Use courier or some other common plain text fixed-width font. Format it as if it's being read like that, since someone may have to print it out and hand it around and maybe gasp copy-paste it (like web forms and other large-company-process-nonsense) in an intermediate form. Don't be an ass.

Having interviewed hundreds of times and been interviewed hundreds of times (I keep lots of resumes), I would not recommend this blog post as a guide.
If I understand correctly, you're making the argument that CloudFlare's move should be seen as part of a (hopefully) larger cultural move against racism and mass shootings. I am not sure how or even if their move would fit into that, but I can at least see that as plausible.

> I don't get how it's desirable that this shouldn't be called out.

That's not being suggested. It's possible to address the issue without outright cutting off 8chan. This approach is common of more extreme perspectives and does more to breed animosity than solve the problem. There are better ways to approach it, and cutting someone or a group off should be on the end list of possibilities.

> Even if cloudflare is clearly looking at its bank balance when doing so.

It's entirely possible they have two goals in mind, and that would be fine. I simply think it's unlikely because of how they've reacted in this case and the one with Daily Stormer.

I also detect a subtle hint of consequentialism here, but that could be my own reading into your post. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) I simply can't get on border with the idea that the ends justifies the means. While the ends shouldn't be ignore, I don't think it should be seen as the sole arbitrator what determines ethical behavior.
If it were, I'd understand. I'm quite aware and accommodating of autism spectrum issues. But the guy was just arrogant and acted with an unwarranted degree of familiarity towards me just because we're from the same country. I'm of the opinion that where the candidate was born should buy them absolutely nothing. Many interviewers don't share this opinion BTW. Some will give overt preference to their compatriots, possibly on the account of "cultural fit".

It didn't help that he didn't do well on the coding question either. In the end I only mentioned the "fucks" in passing in my feedback, and disqualified him on technical merit.
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> drone BASE jumper

This was less good than I was hoping. They start the guy off on a radio tower, drag him a few meters, and then he lets go.
Yeah nah, that doesn't mean the same as "yeah nah", which means "I acknowledge your reasoning but I do not share your conclusions".

A judge in a court case should be saying "yeah nah" when they come down in favor of the other side; an American who uses many words because it is rude to say "no" is nevertheless just saying "no".
A question of taste, disposition and habituation, supposedly.
I far prefer the Python way for clarity and immediate intelligibility, no magic spells required.
The shooters in Poway, Christchurch and El Paso didn't post their screeds via Tor, and weren't radicalized on onion sites. They went to 8chan, because that was more easily understood, widely accessed, and had a larger community. It's the community that matters here, not the technology.

The issue isn't whether or not it's possible for two nutjobs to converse in some way, obviously they can. It's whether or not there is a group of nutjobs all feeding on each others' nutjobbery to the point where someone gets radicalized into dangerous behavior.
They don't need to process all of them, just a relatively small number of public examples.
As opposed to...what, exactly?

A government funded Reddit?

Which government would fund it? How would it be run?
But that has nothing to do with "yeah nah" and "nah yeah" and everything to do with "yes" and "no". If someone makes a false assumption, which is what that question necessarily entails, you must use many words to set them right. If someone has not made a false assumption, as "Are you going on Wednesday?" you can give them the answer with a single word.

Likewise if they said "You're going on Wednesday right" you could say "yeah" but you can't say "No", you must say "no, I'm going on Tuesday" or "no, it's my kid's birthday" or "no Clive is".
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