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I'm not sure 0 being falsy is ever a good idea, it's just an assembly-ism that became a C-ism and spread from there. Zero is not a "special enough" value in the ring of integers. In general, these days I prefer as few implicit coercions as possible.

In many Lisps, nil is the empty list literal, but interestingly not in Clojure, where it just maps to JVM null, and vectors are the most commonly used data type anyway. However, it is idiomatic for APIs to accept (but not return!) nil as if it were an empty sequence or collection, unlike in most non-Lisp languages.
>This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves.

How is that a conspiracy?
He's either confused or has trouble expressing himself.

If human CO2 emissions stopped, atmospheric temperature would still go up for a while (perhaps decades), because of thermal inertia - for instance, the oceans haven't fully warmed to equilibrium, so they currently have a cooling effect on the atmosphere. There could then be some further increase in atmospheric CO2 because warm water holds less CO2 than cold water. There could be other positive and negative feedbacks (eg, higher CO2 and warmer temperatures may increase plant growth, sequestering CO2.)

It's very unlikely that any of these feedbacks are of the "runaway" variety, because if that's how the earth worked, it would have become uninhabitable long ago, since there have been various temperature shocks over the last billion years or so that haven't lead to this fate. (If there were really "runaway" feedbacks, it wouldn't even take a big shock - the tiniest change would be amplified and push the climate into either extreme heat or cold.)
> How does your average residential person find and dispose of chemicals like this?

How do you dispose electronics? Batteries? Oil? Tires? Cars? Furniture? construction materials? ...

You go to the webpage of your local garbage disposal authority, and read their FAQ, which typically contains where all their disposal centers are, their addresses, opening hours, etc. and what can you dispose on each one.

If what you want to dispose is not listed anywhere, you call them and ask them.

In my country if you want to buy these types of chemicals, you need to ask a company for a price, and the company will ask: who are you? what do you want them for? what's your process for the chemicals? Etc. If you fail to answer any of the questions, they are obligated to report that a "sketchy" party tried to buy some chemicals from them. That might get you a visit from the police, asking even more questions.

That's balancing your freedom to do whatever you want with chemicals with my freedom to enjoy a world that hasn't been polluted by idiots that didn't know what they were doing.
Ugh, everyone loves to dredge up gun violence archive and use it as an authorative source and it's trash. They deliberately inflate the numbers of "mass shootings" by changing the definition from the FBI definition (itself occasionally modified for political reasons). The net result is that every half assed gangland drive-by with a handgun gets lumped in and people don't understand that. Outside of Chiraq and a couple of other places gun violence doesn't exist in any meaningful capacity. You're literally safer anywhere in America outside of those places than Western Europe. This is absolutely done on purpose to help push an agenda.
Wikipedia has an extra page on that, which I took as the basis of my comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting#Definitions

To quote: " The term was originally defined as the murder of four or more people with no cooling-off period[1][5] but redefined by Congress in 2013 as being murder of three or more people."

Not only that, at the risk of repeating myself, the page you criticize as being "disingenuous" clearly mentions that definitions of "mass shootings" are controversial and provides 5 alternative definitions in the second paragraph of the article and then lists 7 data sources with definitions of "mass shooting" that either coincides with the one by US Congress or is more stringent (based on the pre 2013 definition).

The page also clearly states that "... only incidents considered mass shootings by at least two of the above sources are listed."

There is absolutely nothing disingenuous about this method.

What you and the people who downvote me cannot get into their minds is that there are official definitions that are used in statistics and that the listing on the Wikipedia page takes a slighly more stringent and narrower definition as a basis to safeguard against criticisms such as yours.

Again, you are of course free to re-define the term "mass shooting" differently from what e.g. the US Congress or Stanford University do, but this would not constitute a valid criticism of the list. How could it? Merely prefering your very personal definition over another one doesn't mean anything, especially if it deviates far from the official use of the term.
Well people in that sphere were already predicting he’d “commit” suicide to avoid getting powerful people ensnared.
Joseph Nacchio vs. NSA
Wow, what's up with people who can say a lot about the Clintz and the deep state dying of suicide all the time. Funny americans
True, sorry. Having no legal background I was genuinely curious what happens next.

Does the state drop everything? Are the materials made available for other cases?
You can’t generate strong static electric fields without it discharging, unlike magnetic fields made by currents.
Check out Plan 9.
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Is Ruby memory-safe?
Arguably Palantir as well.

And in Europe, BAE and Airbus.
What I mean is that I don't think that's a conspiracy, it's reasonable to think that in the world elites they look after each other
Just remember 100F was Fahrenheit's wife's body temperature when she had a low grade fever. Normal body temperature is 36.8C, and with a low fever it's between 37 and 38C. It's so easy! haha.
Nope in the US it is room 641A - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
No (direct) pointers or malloc, and garbage collected, so yeah.
Not everyone needs to be a billionaire monopolist, I think most people can be happy with a solid consistent income
Why do you assume a ban would take effect "suddenly"? As you rightly point out, it would make no sense to apply a gun ban instantly, tricking millions of Americans into technically becoming felons.
'Conspiracy' is not synonymous with 'untrue'. I'd advise everyone in the comments to keep that in mind, and state things unambiguously, to avoid arguing past each-other.
If you want, I'd be happy to see if I can give you some feedback, I 100% respect and understand the need for it.

To be transparent, I do not write Python daily (I am a CTO daily), but I have been doing this work for a very long time and routinely do code reviews across multiple languages, including Python. I can't promise a super quick response, but I could give you one in a few days. If you are interested shoot me an email, it is in my profile.
If you get access to someone's travel history, future travel plans, and their purchase habits (luggage weight, how many people you travel with, etc), this information is worth a lot more to an advertisement company than a mere middleman fee.
This happened hours after the latest tranche of documents were made public, documents that named names.

Unfortunately for this community, one of our MIT heros was on that list. Don't even know what to say.
I immediately see Noam Chomsky in the text. Could you give me a recommendation on which book to start reading from him? He published so many and a few got revised in 2015 so it's pretty hard to decide what is a good read.
To play devils advocate; who doesn’t want to protect themselves and that which they’ve worked for? From the poor who’ve worked hard for the past year to save up for engine for the late 70s truck. To the middle(ish) class who’ve worked hard for their first purchased two bedroom home. To the middle upperclass who’ve gone on a vacation to Branson Missouri. To pretty much everyone with children. To the ultra wealthy that are worth seven figures and up. Everyone wants to protect what they feel they’ve worked hard for. That includes the proposed ultra wealthy that have the means to insure they aren’t pulled into Epstein’s legal whirlpool.

If it exists, it makes sense they would protect themselves.
"unsafe implementation language" is a pretty moot point.

Looking at all the trivial exploits against web applications which are basically never written in memory-unsafe languages (Ruby, Python, PHP, ...) shows that it doesn't really matter much. While having the same implementation in a memory unsafe language would be slightly less safe, it's very unlikely that a heap corruption could be exploited remotely.
Must be nice to be so wealthy & connected that when facing life in prison, you don’t have to worry about it and because death will shortly come. Epstein had no other choice if you think about his lifestyle and what he was against. Another case of how death is needed as a humane alternative instead of lifelong punishment in a prison cell.
I think this is the first car that is nearing the 2013 tesla model s.

I'm also curious about the rapid charge, it was supposed to be 350 afaik but is launching with 150ish only (not 250 as in the web page) and will be increased with software updates in the next few years.

I think if they put a proper infotainment system with a big screen like tesla, give free map/system updates and it doesn't suck in efficiency it might actually sell a bit more than etron and i-pace.

However looking at it... it reminds me of a frog, so maybe not..
Sunglasses + HEPA mask + a beanie works, but you look pretty spooky by that point.
isn't this why we are looking into large battery stabilisation facilities similar to the tesla one in australia
I mostly blame the lack of Integration with reservation systems in certain carriers like Indigo, Nepali Airlines, Air Asia, etc. Then there is a whole range of smaller carriers (including Nepal's numerous airlines). Some airlines are downright now searchable through any means other than the airlines own web site.
That is exactly how fuse operates.
Ok but by looking out for yourself it’s typically and socially accepted and expected you’re not going to do grievous direct harm to other parties.
There was never a time where you could get all of your steaming video from one place. Netflix has had a dismal collection of top movies since the beginning. They had a pretty good selection when they had partnership with STARZ, then Epyx.
I don't think suicidal people much care about the legal or moral judgements of others. Unless you're talking about removing all means of suicide and forcefully keeping people alive.
Socialism and capitalism have their warts. Thinking there's a perfect system is naive. Being uncritical of either system is a mistake. As soon as your system turns into a religion (faith) it's pretty much screwed.

Naming things is important and all, but I'd prefer to evaluate policies on their individual merits instead of simply classifying them as X is part of Y and total Y is bad therefore X is also bad.

Are worker co-ops bad just because they are socialist? Is it bad to regulate a company dumping chemicals in your drinking water because it saves them a few bucks?

On the flipside, is it bad to have reasonable pay discrepancies (not 300x, but maybe 8x) which markets naturally produce?

I think as a general rule we should strive to avoid concentrations of power in the hands of the few. Which has been a side effect of both capitalism and communism.
Furious. Massive failure by the justice system to do its job. Epstein, a monster, was allowed to escape justice and take everything he knew with him. This all not to mention the power of those potentially implicated in his sick schemes and their interest in him being conveniently buried with his knowledge. This outcome is bad for all of us.
It's mostly Coulomb's law; electrostatic force is proportional to the involved charges divided by their separation. You don't have that problem in electromagnetic motors because strong magnetic fields don't break down the rotor/stator air gap. You might turn the air gap into a dielectric oil gap, but now you have fluid friction losses which again limit how narrow that gap can be.

You'll note that this is a recurring pattern with electromagnetic vs. electrostatic implementations of roughly the same idea.
looked into thorium. that's at least 50 years in the future. there are so many engineering challenges involved to ensure failsafe operation (primary, secondary systems)
Then we should just lay down and die from the fear.
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He died the way he lived: with people looking the other way.
With practically zero percent chance of getting caught, that is a much better alternative than torrents.
Or another motor. Or a motor optimized for high torque (lots of pole pairs) and another one for high speed (two pole pairs as you can hardly do 360° with a single pair). The issue is usually operating at high speeds, as electrical motors do develop high torque. Even a bus needs to operate with flux weakening.

The motor in the article seems to combine a classical cylindrical design with a planar design (poles places on a disc).
Absolutely! I remember a particular budget-ish airline in Asia dropping their prices more than 50%. I already had a ticket by the time, and I saved money by booking this low fare and canceling the old one. It was worth even after then cancellation fee.
> Even a nutjob armed with the latest encryption, still needs a gun to kill people.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure a determined enough assailant could beat someone to death with a hardcover copy of PGP Source Code and Internals.
> it is, however, harder to automate

If Apple does not give you the tools to decrypt messages on their phones, doesn't that make it "impossible" to automate, where automate is defined as any version of "decrypting the data on the phone"?
That’s the very definition of conspiracy:

“a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.”
> “short-term increase in radiation”

Guess they are lying like in 1986.
As far as I know the registering part is mandatory for legal use but lets the accepting party decide to check it or not.

For instance as you point out for banks you can open an account without any check (you’re giving them money) but you won’t get a mortgage without proof of registration (they’re taking the risk)

At a previous company my boss had his company stamp (a shachihata) in a drawer for us to use when he’s not there. It’s interesting because by the rule of law we would be the one in fault for using someone’s stamp, so it better be for stuff he approved verbally or other ways.
This is getting ridiculous. The reason why these classification of mass shootings was invented (by US Congress) is quite the opposite of what you suggest, namely to make sure that gang-related violence and "ordinary" shootings are included into the statistics Why? So politicians can point to cities like Chicago and argue that the police needs more powers instead of having to deal with the unpleasant reality of amok runs and domestic terrorism which cannot be prevented very easily and are often cited as an argument for tighter gun control.

Of course, you're less likely to get shot in Europe. If you start cherry picking locations, on the other hand, then I guess the US is 100% safe and crime-free, provided you take your mom's basement as reference area.
Very good points. I guess I'm looking at it primarily from a server OS PoV, and I find it indeed surprising that Linux has become so entrenched given it's license terms when it hasn't anything to offer beyond a POSIX-like API. You'd expect people to ship their proprietary apps on top of eg BSD base installs or POSIXish unikernels, but instead what is happening is that Docker is used. Apart from the density aspect and "microservice" trend, I conjecture that people use Docker as an isolation layer to get away from shipping GPL code. Because surely isolation from shared libs having different minor versions and install locations on Debian vs RHEL doesn't seem like a good tradeoff considering that those shared libs, when shipped as part of a Docker image, still need security updates. For me, Docker looks like a solution for a problem of our own making - that of needing different versions of shared libs, and in any case equivalently solvable by static linking.
> I don't think suicidal people much care about the legal or moral judgements of others.

This is untrue. From what we can tell suicidal people care deeply about what other people think.
Do you have a reference for this? I'm the last to say this is an original idea and would like to read more about this.
Who was that MIT hero? Do you have a source? Thanks.
Just one word comes to mind: "convenient"
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A big key to driving in LA is recognizing and knowing where the mountains/buildings are. With that GPS and compass aren't required to have a very good feel for where you are and are headed. You still need to know streets (and which go through, have lights, traffic), but it's very reasonable to know which way to get to a major street/highway even from an "unknown" location.
I really like the idea of escape rooms, but have never had the chance to do one. My area just had one or two shut down, so I might have missed the chance.
I guess it depends on what "supported" means in the context of the mobo. I'm always afraid its going to mean that I cannot enable scrubbing, etc, if the cpu is not "supported"
Oy. Certainly they knew this was a strong possibility, and a high profile case. I'm not prone to tin foil hattery, but this smells bad.
It has to be close to the price they are a charging since every VOD store charges the same. I would think of that weren’t the case, someone would charge less.
My take on this would be that people will start to have their favorite bots. They will follow bots like they follow celebrities.
Marvin Minsky
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...
Agreed, they are both really enjoyable reads with some very clever, thought provoking stories. Highly recommended.
No, not really, that doesn't seem like an interesting question at all. Can you convince me otherwise? It seems obvious to me that while a right to commit suicide might exist typically, somebody imprisoned is obviously not entitled to it. We restrict many rights when we imprison people, and I see no reason why the 'right to commit suicide' should not be one of them. Allowing such a man to kill himself denies his victims, some of whom may yet be unidentified, to opportunity to resolve the matter in a satisfactory way.
Monsters can occur anywhere. What makes a real difference is a community’s capacity for looking the other way when an individual sheds their personhood in the perpetration of heinous acts. Look at religious organizations (Catholic Church, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, ...) and in the sports world (USA Gymnastics) and in financial/political circles.

Now more than ever, if you see something - say something. No matter how esteemed a person may be within their field of activity, monstrous acts demand the swiftest of retribution.
If you believe that when the elite "look after each other" they abuse their power in illegal and unethical ways, then technically you're a "conspiracy theorist" along with the vast majority of the population.

Edit: And the story has been removed from the HN front page, despite being one of the most popular...
That's the ideal and the law, but in practice it's not that uncommon for people do grievous direct harm to other parties, when they think they can get away with it.
There’s more than one angle to conspiracy theories as well. Was it a “hit” by the powerful protecting themselves or, did he have a dead man’s switch on incriminating others and it’s a fake and he’s been broken out of prison?

There’s so much to work with here that it’s going to go on for years.
Source please... I want to see the names, ALL of the names.
> I think this is the first car that is nearing the 2013 tesla model s.

They're aimed at different things. The Taycan is a performance car, the Model S isn't. The Model S is uncompetitive with the Taycan around a race track, for example.
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Don't get me wrong, I saw the title and was excited. I want this to be real.

I want to believe.

But way too many keyword drops. Disruptive is what red flagged me the most.

Way too many promises.

Only lab results and "experts" commenting that it should work in theory.

But no prototype?

Even though it's a different motor they don't "believe" it's going to cost more to make than traditional motors?

Only 3d renders?

I think there was a medical company that did something similar with blood testing. Didn't really work out for them.
Well, it just happened.
I imagine the stakes are high enough here that the "going rate" is irrelevant. Millions would be a pittance.
"Suicide watch" doesn't have a fixed meaning.

People on 15 minute observations can and do die by suicide.

If someone is at risk and you think obs are going to help (they don't always help, they can make things worse) you need to have them under full time obs.

But even then how close does that need to be? Two staff members within arms reach 24 hours of the day, including during eat, bathing, defecating?
> before Ryzen/Zen they never supported ECC

Incorrect; there were a bunch of AM3(+) boards which advertised ECC support back in the day. The IMC of AMD's desktop processors always supported ECC if I'm not mistaken.
Bill Clinton: "Whew, that was close!"
If you were in his position though why not just kill yourself off? At 66 there’s not much life left to live and what’s left is going to be pretty shitty anyway behind bars.
A 20% improvent would be a 20% closer to 100% specifically 20% out of the remaining 10% so 2% overall improvement.

From 90% to 92%
You're right. I just looked it up to be sure. When I lived in the UK in 2007, Bulgaria and Romania entered the EU. There was some fuss about that, and initially those nationalities did not automatically obtain a work permit.

These were granted the same rights in 2014.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25237742
It's standard fire code rules. All doors between occupied rooms and exits must be unlocked during business hours. Exit doors must have emergency releases that can open them from the inside. You must have your plans approved for these and other issues before construction can begin.
My default perspective on this is that he was an intelligence asset tasked with blackmailing the worlds most powerful people.
I hadn’t heard that NIMBY’s are also NOMS (not on my streets) but it doesn’t surprise me they’re trying to keep cars from driving down the public streets they live on. Is there anything the affluent won’t do to try to exclude themselves from society at large?

I recently started motorcycling and don’t want a phone mount to distract myself while driving. This has turned Maps apps into a “Thomas guide” for me. I examine the maps and chart the route of my ride the night before, memorizing which turns I want to take and surrounding streets in case I miss a turn. Of course, if I do get lost I can open my digital “Thomas guide” back up and figure out where I am. It has given me a different level of confidence in my ability to navigate that simply relying on GPS routing for the past 15 years has. But it’s hard to get lost in the West LA area, there’s so many major streets that are memorable and as long as you know what cardinal directions they run in, it’s not really a big deal. If you just drive in one direction long enough you’re bound to find something that orients you in space.
Also why the big screen probably isn’t a priority while hooning around a track!
Ultra bright LEDs + Battery
unless their cameras have great IR filters (usually not).
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