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I think you misunderstood what I was saying - it wasn’t that I supported the strongmen regimes per se (or even that I think foreign investors as a group did) but that I was skeptical of the idea that the revolutions happened because ‘business’ wanted them. My view is that a smoother transition to democracy would have had most support from foreign investors. The revolutions were brutal for investors in those countries and more importantly for many of the people there.
Biometrics as an authentication factor suffers from a "weakest-link" problem. The strength of authentication of _every_ system using biometric factors can only be as strong as the weakest, least secure implementation out of those systems.

Passwords suffer from the same "weakest-link" problem to a degree, but at least we can choose to have more than 1 or 2 and even more than 10 different passwords. Also, they can be changed after a leak. In biometric authentication, once your raw biometric data has been leaked, you are basically left to rely on the strength of the PAD (Presentation Attack Detection) and the (lack of) propagation of the leaked information.
The search page on docs.python.org was like that until recently. You typed a search key, results started to appear, and then when the search was complete a line "Search finished, found xx pages" appeared above the results, pushing them all down at some difficult-to-predict point in time.

That is fixed now, and it is so much better.
I read somewhere that the German billionaire class controls 1T dollars. Why do people earn only 5k after tax ? There seem to be very little opportunities for investment in stock market. Real estate prices too seem insane.
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You don't really want to "hit" anything directly. You want the torpedo to pass and explode underneath the target.

> The design for the Mark 6 exploder used in the Mark 14 torpedo had started at the Naval Torpedo Station (NTS), Newport, in 1922. Ship's armor was improving with innovations such as torpedo belts and torpedo blisters (bulges). To circumvent these measures, torpedoes needed larger warheads or new technology. One option would use a fairly small warhead but was intended to explode beneath the keel where there was no armor. This technology required the sophisticated new Mark 6 magnetic influence exploder, which was similar to the British Duplex and German models, all inspired by German magnetic mines of World War I. The Mark 14 shared this exploder with the concurrently-designed surface ship Mark 15 torpedo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo
This is probably the worst take on nostalgia I've ever seen.
Actually, what the driver did is specifically recommended in many jurisdictions...partly due to the problem of people impersonating police officers.

Also, blind obedience is gross. It's our duty to think.
What software are these people using for the fantastic animations?

Is there an established framework for astrophysics that allows to work on a high level to produce these nice visuals?
I suspect something like the "artificial inanity" described in Anathem so that the reputation of authors becomes a vital part of the infrastructure of their network.
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> Publishing such a book almost guarantees that you'll be able to tour talkshows for a few weeks, give interviews to newspapers etc. as free marketing for your books.

I don't really see a clear divide between book publishers and media publisher on this issue. Most news media companies are going for the same content: everything is terrible, the world is constantly very close to ending, and you need to buy this paper to find out how to save yourself today. Bad news is good news after all.
Serious environmentalists are talking about a lot more effective measures, although them being environmentalists (and somewhat realist) they usually shy away from pie-in-sky (desert) geoengineering projects. Examples are CO_2 trading schemes, phasing out ICEs, public transport, liveable cities, or reforestation.

Plastic straws/bags/etc are obviously small (but not necessarily negligible) efforts. They rise to prominence mostly because they are easy to mock.
Does anyone know if there's a name for the "terminal" theme used on the poetry site?
This is somewhat true but a side effect of PV is that its performance degrades with higher temperatures. It is possible to use panels output as thermometers they are so consistent in this behavior.

I'm not saying they will stop working but merely they lose out in some potential.
Or boycott anything backed by SoftBank, in which the Saudis are huge investors via the Vision Fund. Such as WeWork.
Maybe I do. What's it to you?
Nah, remember that a lot of people voted for him not that long ago.
The efficiency of photovoltaic tends to decrease with heat above 25°C.

Storing energy is expensive.
You can probably release this book every 30 years or so and have a bot replace contemporary parts and jargon.

He says that the development of children is negatively affected by adults, who lack authority by elevating children to their level. Information technology had further enabled children to fortify this power imbalance.

Maybe he has a point, but as a psychologist for children you probably get a warped image after a while. Job hazard probably.

He recommends adults to take walks in the park for example to get distance and perspective from the horrible stuff younger people post online. That can align with my wishes to ban all politicians from Twitter at least.

But I think it should be pretty controversial to say that younger people form some kind of tyranny while keeping demographics in Germany in mind. Well, easier to take advantage of people that believe you a fool.

Still, younger people are the end of civilization as we know it, as is tradition. I believe there never was a metric or any empirical evidence but it might just be one of these timeless classics people seem to love. Maybe there is a hint of truth in a way that people drawn to these stories do indeed feel overtaxed.
And google won't let me tag those pages that don't have the datasheets as useless.
What is he resolution like? Is it as good as Google's aerial imagery that they show with their maps? (or Bing's)
So "Trust, but verify" - which really is an old Russian proverb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
One shouldn't underestimate the intelligence of stupidity. It can have its own utility, strength and creativity within certain parameters.
Regarding your last point, yes I used to believe backend engineers deserved more pay.

Usually they had higher education, and were solving more complex problems with all kinds of dependencies and integrations.

Frontend, 10 years ago, was about knowing jQuery, how to make an XMLHttpRequest maybe, and a little bit of domain knowledge on browser bugs and using floats to implement your layout. Back then you weren't even doing responsive layouts on all projects. People usually filling these roles were not required to have the same amount of domain knowledge as a backend engineer - no way.

Nowadays it's a different kettle of fish. The tooling is insane. The dependency tree is insane. The amount of granular optimisations and obscure browser APIs you need to know to work on big-tech frontends is nuts.

So yes, I used to think this was the case. Not anymore.
Does it matter if it turns into dust or gas? As long as it stays clumped enough, we might still be screwed.
I’ve wondered as solar gets more popular we’ll have heat and cooling systems that take advantage of the free excess electricity.

For example heat my water to 140% the ideal temp and cool a thermal sink for ac when I’m away from home during peak solar.

Then when I’m at home and it’s no longer sunny my electricity needs are nil as I utilize the pre stored coolant and heat.

Haven’t done the math but I’d assume a 500 gallon water tank that’s heated or cooled during peak solar with insulation could be used to keep your home at the perfect temperature by using excess solar.
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I've read of would-be influencers who endorse products while not being paid for it (since they didn't find anyone willing to pay) still using the labelling because otherwise they would have to admit that nobody finds them important enough to pay them for advertising.
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What do you mean? I don't understand
I would think that the most likely failure mode would be bird ingestion. A large bird would likely break the top prop, and the fragments of that prop+bird would hit the cowel, and then be sucked down through the bottom prop. Not to mention the high forces exerted on the top-prop motor mounting from losing only one blade. I'm not sure whether you want the top prop motor mount to fail at that point to save the airframe, but if so, then you'll get the top motor ingested into the bottom prop too. Unless you can actually prevent large bird ingestion, or design props that can survive it intact, I agree you don't really have any redundancy from co-axial contra-rotating props.
Great Article @prostoalex.
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Don't you mean fen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen_(currency)

1/6 of a penny is 0.0016 USD, or 0.01 CNY:
https://www.google.com/search?q=0.0016+usd+to+cny
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It's 20% shorter with the i7 + 4K XPS they've used for their comparisons, that's a fair amount. You can presumably get that back with the i5 model, but then you're not twice as powerful.
Makes me want to get the latest XPS even though my 2015 model is still going strong.

Also note the 2019 Air they've got has a smaller battery again (49.9Whr).
I get my dose of natural stupidity on this website every day. I wouldn't need an artificial source.
For me it was kind of the opposite. I was a die-hard Amiga kid until around 1994 I think. Then I started to see all the cool games getting released on the PC. I would wish for games like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem. The VGA Sierra games. That was even before CD-ROMs took off.

It was a shame; the Amiga was so far behind by that point. It was so far behind that the PC could beat it using mostly software! Accelerator cards were crazily expensive for the Amiga ($1,500.00 AUD+ if I remember). The A1200 was too little, too late for me.

Getting my 486 sparked off probably one of the most exciting gaming times of my life.

Still insanely fond memories - I wrote a chunk of an adventure game engine in AMOS on the Amiga. It Came From The Desert II is one of my most fondly-remembered games.

Speaking of adventure games - the early Sierra games had their best engine implementations on the Amiga. AGI on the Amiga used the Tandy 3-voice version of the game music and I believe also supported a custom game palette (so for example Leisure Suit Larry 1 uses a better skin-tone colour on the Amiga than on the PC version). SCI0 games (think King's Quest 4. Police Quest 2) used instrument samples (which I believe were from the MT-32 version of the music for the game) to play probably the best music outside of the MT-32 PC versions.

SCI1 on the other hand, was a total mess. Slow to the point of barely playable and -- worst of all -- horrible graphics. I heard somewhere (can't remember where exactly) that SCI1 games did not take advantage of the Amiga's palette capability - the ENTIRE game was reduced to one colour palette shared across all rooms. The Amiga could do so much better, even if it couldn't keep up with the PC at that point; a good example being the port of King's Quest 6, which was done by Revolution Software and not Sierra. That port was praised. LucasArts games were also great - Monkey Island II was great on the Amiga (it's actually where I first played it).
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" he turned off literally everything except his fridge. He even turned off his hot water heater."

Which is exactly what you want people to do when a resource is scarce. Price signals work.

Hopefully his next step is to consider solar water heating. It's summer in Texas FFS.
Twitter account "Joined July 2019", indeed...
In such stories there’s always a group or person that remains in denial long enough to frustrate the overall objective.

I see it in tech when developers often try to tell me there’s no problem until weeks later admitting there is one.

Why not spend the time investigating instead of denying?
Terminal velocity for a person is around 195kph.
She caused a fire cooking, which can happen pretty easily if you aren't careful: obviously it is the cooking instructions that are faulty that haven't conveyed the risks properly.

Realistically she could just as well had to go to the toilet and then forget about the stove, and what are you banning then?
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Yeah, just as long as the masses don't change so much that they start demanding adequate compensation for their work everything is OK ;)
Sorry, but you've mangled the methods a bit.

> All of them are a little weird but one is free - you can effectively write to one of the courts in London to say you have been known by a different name for some time, so would like your official records updated to that new name - but this route is unconventional and somewhat archaic.

This is an enrolled deed-poll. It's not free, it costs £36. It's not unconventional. It's a commonly used method because it's the change that is most widely accepted by other organisations.

> The more often used method (deed poll) costs £35 and takes a couple of weeks

Deed-polls are free. You can write your own, or you can download a template from the Internet.

We don't have legal names in England. You can change your own name at any time, for any reason, so long as you don't have the intent to defraud. You can change it to almost anything you like.

There are three methods:

If you're over 18 you can just stop using your old name and start using your new name. This is just as valid as any other name change method. It doesn't work well because banks and doctors tend to ignore it.

The next step up is to use a deed poll. This is free. It's just a piece of paper saying that you've stopped using your old name and you're only going to be using your new name from now on. A deed poll is just a written version of the first step. For some reason having it in writing helps people accept it more. But some banks don't accept this form of deed poll.

The next step up is an enrolled deed poll. You take your deed poll and you enroll it at the Royal Courts of Justice and have it published in The Gazette. It costs £36. This form should be accepted by everyone. Because it's cheap, and because it's accepted by banks, and because it makes life easier, this is the version that most people chose.

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll
I was refering to the kind of books that the parent comment also refered to:

> There has been at least one book about how "Germany/Germans are getting dumber", "The Big Crash is Coming" or something similar on the Spiegel Bestseller list at all times.

Not all books on the list are like that but there is indeed at least one of them at any given time. And those particular books never require the reader to change.
Deserts are also an environment, often with endangered species of their own.
As an interesting note, my time in Indonesia introduced me to Sukarno's writings, which introduced me to Gandhi's writings on nationalism. These have been firm influences on my view that the choice is not between nationalism and internationalism, but between nationalism with internationalism and globalism with colonialism.
>Why do people earn only 5k after tax ?
>I read somewhere that the German billionaire class controls 1T dollars

You answered the question yourself no ?
It is around so long, that it accumulated some legitimacy of it's own
Permitting is one thing: https://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/Solar/Texas

Access to the wholesale electricity market is another.
i think it is worth to mention glenn branca, he used this technique a lot. good example is "The Tone Row That Ruled the World"
I really like this thought.
The Lorentz factor here is 1/sqrt(3/4), around 15% over unity. So the elapsed time for you to see the flare is 2/1.15 * 26ky, or 45 ky. In general, for any λ multiple of c, the elapsed time multiple is sqrt(1 - λ^2) / (1 - λ), which reduces to 1 + λ in the λ << 1 case. You can try plotting it for λ from -1 (c directly towards the event) to +1 (c directly away from the event) to get a feel for how it behaves.
"Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis" is a well known saying amongst school teachers here in Germany.
The right thing (not flaring the gas) doesn't coincide with their economic self-interest, that's why they're doing it in the first place!
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This isn't the first ever psytrance styles guide. I recall seeing one on psynews.org many years ago that actually appeared more comprehensive than this one.
well the original was a horrible little device so i guess its only fitting that the new one packs a mediatek cpu to ensure its crappy too, somehow i dont think this will be the one to save HTC
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Maybe just ask them if they have a PayPal or something on their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/taller.lenateros

Also at least one of the books is on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IMJQNVK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...
so maybe check to make sure they get the money from that.
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Blazing Saddles was a comedy. Django is acceptable because it's a drama, but Mel Brooks' style of humor is no longer socially acceptable. We can take issues like race and anti-semitism deadly seriously, but we aren't allowed to laugh about them anymore.

Which is unfortunate because bigots often take strength from projecting an air of dignity and respectability in an attempt to legitimize themselves in the public square. It's why modern white supremacy and anti-semitism have been reframed as science and philosophy, merely a skeptical form of racial and political realism questioning the mainstream narratives of progressivism and the Enlightment.

Using humor to debase those ideologies and humiliate those who hold them could be a powerful weapon, robbing them of their potency.

Of course, not all such humor has noble intent. The difference between Mel Brooks using racial and religious stereotypes for comic effect and, say, /pol/ doing the same is who the target is, and whether the joke is "punching up" or "punching down." Punching up is funny, punching down isn't. For all of the crass and racial jokes he would make, he, as a white man, still refused to make a joke out of lynching[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE
What is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
> Someone recently flew a jet-powered "hoverboard" across the English channel

And stopped for a refuel half-way.
If she got distracted reading a book, would you also consider therapy?
Nothing against the dam removal -

but I wish someone would think of something to "Change Everything" so that one day we'll see fewer clickbaity article titles.
This is a great introduction nicely designed ! Do similar websites exist for other genres?
The Amiga broke my heart. In some sense I will never get over it. At ages 12 to 18 I was a programmer on the Amiga, a music composer, digital image artist, I scoured BBS's, and so much more. I got together with groups of other people (from all over, and of all ages) doing the same things.

When it could no longer be denied that Commodore and the Amiga were dead, cold and buried, and it seemed the only alternative was a clunky, artless PC, I got so down on the whole thing that I left the field of computers entirely. I even went to university in a completely unrelated field.

I finally broke after many years, went back and got a computer science degree and has now been a programmer and systems architect for many years. But I have never forgotten my first love.
It is an area of front-end dev that easily crosses into premature optimization. You are right that it is insane to worry about this when first drafting a new UI for an app. But once that app is live, and you are iterating on enhancements and new features, a snappier user experience may bubble its way to the top, and then you would work on these things.
It recently went rather viral https://twitter.com/Adam8Hasan/status/1137081098381484032
If you were to compare it to the new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 which uses a 10th gen Intel chip and is marketed to have 17 hours of battery life, I think it'd be more than twice as powerful and that one would last just as long if not longer. But again, that might be an apples to oranges comparison with the different chip generations. But Apple always is a bit behind on adopting those new chips.
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> She caused a fire because she got distracted

Yes, it happens. I set some bacon on fire because I forgot about it when I got distracted. My wife set a jacket potato on fire because she got distracted. It happens to normal people.

> As a parent... probably consider therapy

I know who sounds like they should be in therapy, and it's not the kids.
>>> The attack happened at the Ramparts Creek campground on the Icefields Parkway north of Lake Louise, around 1 a.m. on August 9.

- No cell phone coverage at Rampart Creek or at any campgrounds on the Icefields Parkway

This is a much more primitive campground than those catering to a larger population in Banff. Lake Louise campground is surrounded by an electrified bear fence, and bear-proof bridge, and has staff patrol the area at night.
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> Why do people earn only 5k after tax?

Because Germany is a high-tax-country. People also generally don't have a lot of private pension funds, that's tied up in a publicly organized system that's based on income, and "shared" between employer and employee (that is, the employer will pay half of it directly, which generally means that your pay is lower by that much). You get pension claims instead of building personal wealth.

While there's still a lot of personal wealth to be inherited over the next decades, families appear to have more difficulties building wealth. It's why, whenever somebody says "Germany is a rich country", my instinct is to ask them "what is this Germany you speak of", because there are large differences when you look at the average/median citizen, a very well-off knowledge worker or rich person, or a person living at/below the poverty line.
I would like to know what the measurement of the loudness when you are 1/2 mile away from the road.
Not the parent but sometimes ignoring the rational choice leads to interesting discoveries or results. For creative endeavors it's also good to not overthink things and let the flow take over.