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>I own a rare collector car with a three-digit VIN. This has caused endless hassles at the DMV as well as the insurance office.

I have a similar problem with my own identity. I was born in Canada's smallest province, PEI, and now live in its largest, Ontario. Some Ontario government software seems to have problems recognizing the relatively low numbers on PEI birth certificates.
This proposal isn't what you think. In particular, they're not implementing "CSS Modules" as defined in https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules but instead they're doing a Web Components approach, where `import 'styles.css'` will return an opaque CSSStyleSheet object that you then "attach" to a Shadow DOM root.

To differentiate between the proposal here and the existing "CSS Modules" thing, I guess I'll call the existing thing "ICSS Modules," since (as an implementation detail) they compile to so-called "Interoperable CSS" files.

ICSS modules and CSS Modules V1 sound identical (they're both just called "CSS Modules") but they behave completely differently.

* ICSS modules mangle class names for scoping; CSS Modules V1 returns a CSSStyleSheet, which has to be attached to a shadow DOM root in order to have any scoping.

* ICSS modules export a mapping of class names to mangled names, allowing a tree-shaking algorithm to drop unimported ICSS rules. CSS Modules V1 returns a big old CSSStyleSheet object, which the user would then attach in bulk.

* ICSS modules work great with server-side JS, allowing developers to return plain HTML + CSS with no client-side JS required for rendering. I can't see how a CSSStyleSheet could be used on the server side at all.

* ICSS modules are popular, and developers have been asking (perhaps naively) for native browser support for "CSS Modules" for years, in the same naive way that they wish for JSX built-in to the browser. This proposal is not at all what they meant.

Then there's the naming conflict. Imagine trying to Google for this: "How do I port my code from CSS modules to CSS modules?"

If I may be so bold as to speak for the many, many developers who never use Shadow DOM and never plan to start using it, it seems like this proposal is just going to make our lives worse.
These are some good points about longevity, but the people I know who own 500es love them and say they drive well. For now :)
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I'd like to actually experience using this but first impressions are that it is disassociating managers and helping them depersonalize their human livestock, I mean staff.

I've had to fire people and there were usually very specific reasons around politics and performance. I'm assuming this 'tool' will be good for hiring expansion and firing 'reductions in force' type firms who place people a distant second to profits
Sigh.

It's this kind of response that makes me convinced we deserve it.
The difference is that they require other information. The Italian tax ID number is just an encoded version of data that's already in the form (name, gender, date and place of birth), but the form also requires an ID or driving license number and I have to hand a copy physically with a matching number and picture.
In COP (Colombian Pesos) those are roughly $5,000,000COP and $25,000,000COP, so it makes more sense when in its original currencies.
Ha, fair point!
Are you trying to say that you represent the majority of the population? What's the point of this comment?
I’m not sure touch screens have sufficient resolution.

Check this: http://huyle.de/2019/02/12/accessing-capacitive-images/ As you see, the sensor elements are huge, 4×4mm each, i.e. there’re only 15×27 sensors for the complete touch screen. On top of that, there’s high amount of noise in the signal of each sensor.

The reasons why it works OK in practice, fingers have very predictable shape, also a lot of software involved on all levels of the stack. Touch screen firmware filters out sensor noise and generates touch points. Higher level GUI frameworks “snap“ touches to virtual buttons, some platforms go as far as making virtual keyboard buttons different sizes, depending on which virtual keys are expected to be clicked next, according to predictive input software i.e. dictionaries.

What you propose probably can be done, by using a finger-like object, but I don’t expect the resolution will be great. At least not in comparison with hardware turning knobs, even cheap ones can be make extremely precise. See this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_encoder for more info, both are used a lot in wide variety of applications. Old mice with a ball had 2 of them, the reason why ball mice sucked was not sensor precision, it was dirt accumulation, a minor issue for a knob.
The only meaningful impact of LetsEncrypt and HTTPS Everywhere pushes is that now most phishing sites use HTTPS. Since most non-technical users trust the presence of the lock icon (even though they shouldn't), this has been great for phishing sites.
Interesting thesis. This also might apply to the college admissions process. It has me thinking about possible admissions processes that would select for outliers.
Y Combinator is a seed accelerator, not an angel investor. They're quite distinct types of investors.

Your point about Alpaca is unclear to me. If you want to convince anyone, perhaps you should write a blog post, with sources and evidence, to explain why you think it's not a startup?
The one thing that I found positive about Colombian taxis is that they are very cheap. In this regard, I don't see how Uber could compete.

On the other hand, the cars are falling to bits and the drivers are rather aggressive (although it seemed to me that drivers were careless in general).
I really enjoyed my parkingservices@ email address at my university. Took them many years to catch up and take that alias away.
Trains have been using regenerative braking to stop massive multi-ton loads for decades. I don't think this is a real issue.
If I'm remembering correctly from my chemistry lectures, there's an upper limit on how much nitrogen can be fixed "organically", and it's nowhere near enough to support the current world population. It's not only a question of cost.

That said, I think a lower global population is desirable for many reasons.
I don’t want high density housing. But I want things that require high density housing: the ability to walk to lots of places and good public transportation when I want to go farther.

I’ve compromised on an expensive lower density location which has a bit of that. I’m happy with it, but plenty of people will make those compromises differently.

It would be great if we could all live in big houses with big yards and have stores and restaurants down the street, but basic economics and geometry means you can’t.
Calling it a key is your own reframing, implying a use case.
> We have so much land all around this country and no one is using it.

As the old real estate mantra goes, "Location, Location, Location!"

Of course you can buy a house with a yard and a large garage, but can you buy it on a regionally-adjusted salary and be reasonably close to a town and your workplace? Locality is still important for the vast majority of jobs, even in this age when the capability to telecommute is here.

I think the key contributor to this asymmetry is the scarcity of the human attention. People remember a handful of cities/towns which they associate with prosperity, despite the fact/possibility that far more areas are also prosperous. It's the same reason that a few dozen universities at the top of the rankings thrive, while perfectly decent schools just below them struggle to attract applicants.

Whether the issue at mind is red/blue state or rural/urban, Americans have become more risk-averse when it comes to moving to different regions.
As an American who hangs out with a handful of french nationals, I'm not convinced enough to bet my citizenship on it, and this is coming from someone who likes both wine and cheese.
This; suburbs don't scale.

disclaimer: I charge my car in my suburban driveway
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It’s still a pretty big upgrade. Parking meters take basically trivial power to run right now. The ones near me are solar! They might not even be connected to the grid at all!
Mine was the hand of Eris :)
Funny, I was thinking something similar but from a completely different direction — the problem, IMO, isn’t that people in cities can't afford to buy garages, but that they want cars at all.

The problem that these “garage orphans” don’t get is that society doesn’t owe anyone a free parking space. When one can’t afford car payments, or insurance, or gasoline, they aren’t allowed to simply go out and take it; but for some reason, we give away precious space to people who can’t afford garages.

There’s a whole book on this topic, for anyone who’s interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
Ethical considerations aside, one of the other drivers of this is the origin of some of the money involved here. Most of the largest sovereign wealth funds globally are the result of money generated by resource extraction: Norway, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia (directly and via Aramco), Qatar, etc. For these names, holding stocks that pose a climate risk is buying oil with oil dollars. Without intentional divestment of oil, coal, and other climate names, they are essentially levered long. Excluding these from their holdings is just prudent investment.
If a cursory look dismisses a good site, the person looking doesnt have accurate skimming and scanning skills. Judging trustworthiness is probably one of the hardest skills on the web. It takes immense amounts of practice. Like many other skills, its probably one where people are over confident in their own abilities.
> If you're working for less than it takes to buy the shittiest home in your city, you are exacerbating inequality and thus making the world worse. Better to sit on the sidewalk until you're dead.

I'm not normally one for this term, but this has to be the pinnacle of blaming the victim.
TBH it's a very silly principle to fight for: "I DEMAND YOU HAVE NO BUGS!" And the DMV could just as well argue "Sorry, the bug is that we never should have accepted your NULL plate application in the first place, so we'll send you a non-vanity plate".
From the article, he linked to this website, which I found amazing:

http://www.mamartino.com/projects/rise_of_partisanship/

What fascinates me is the balance was relatively stable until the end of the 1980s. Just another cold war after-effect?
> It labels repression of emotions as a bad thing, but you can find a half dozen studies showing people who ignore traumatic events have a faster and healthier recovery than those that don'

Genuinely interested in these studies, I didn't know they existed. Can you provide a reference?
Lots of shared building garages as well as public parking lots/garages have dedicated spots for EVs with chargers built-in nowadays.
In California the bankrupt PG&E power company will be turning off power during fire season high risk periods to limit their exposure. Escape from fire in an EV won't be possible unless you keep a fully charged vehicle on standby regardless of the charging location.
Is it just me, or whenever I try to read what Noam Chomsky says or listen to him I have to constantly read over it to understand it?
I believe duckduckgo uses bing for search results. (See https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1). If you compare searches on bing and duckduckgo, they are very similar.

The main advantage of duckduckgo is that they aren't tracking you and the ads they show are just based on the search keywords not based on a digital profile they have compiled like google and facebook.
I know that a lot of property owners are out of touch, but "I don't think anyone wants high-density housing" is really at another level. Time for you to take your fingers out of your ears.
I don't think most actual cities would need to be wholesale redesigned; plenty of urban planners have proposed plenty of incremental ways to successfully re-tool cities to favor humans over automobiles. And it has successfully happened in the past - see Amsterdam, for example, or (admittedly to a lesser extent) Montréal.
On iOS we do this by swizzling network calls and on Android we use interceptors that are automatically added to your code using a Gradle plugin. By the time we get the data, the network stack has already handled SSL termination, so handling HTTPS calls is no different for the SDK than handling HTTP calls.
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Could the flame be acetylene gas?
Electricity rates and demand are insanely low during the night. In fact whole sale rates can dip into the negatives where they will literally pay you to use electricity. Aluminum smelting plants run during this time. Even if everyone suddenly started charging cars at night at the most we would be back close to daytime demand, but more math is needed.
The Volt has a 1.4L ICE engine, three clutches, two electric motors (of two different types--ferrite and neodymium), a large battery, a wall charger, an inverter, and a complicated mechanical transmission that accepts drive input from any motor. The Volt may be more efficient than an ICE car, but it is in no way simpler.
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It's not about buying property. Residential street parking is used by residents, not just visitors. Those cars can't charge whether you own your place or not. Meanwhile, the car in the garage can charge whether you're owning or renting.
True, but it's also a historical reality that in the early 20th century that's exactly what happened to usher in labor laws that we enjoy today.
Similar experience here. It wasn't as much as a problem in Bogotá as it was in the more touristy Cartagena or Medellín.

Cartagena was the worst with Ubers. I hailed an Uber in a touristy area, and immediately my driver messaged me (in Spanish of course) to get in the front seat, and if anyone asked, he's my friend. Once the Uber arrived, a taxista saw me get in the Uber and started yelling "es un Uber!" and my driver looked over at me and yelled at me to hurry up, before speeding away.
For some reason on FF desktop, even after allowing location, it says location was denied. Works on Chrome.
This stopped me from buying a Tesla with my most recent car purchase. I live in a 100 year old apartment in Boston that has 0 parking spots for over 100 units. My wife and I share a car, mostly for weekend adventuring, so we rent a spot in a dude's backyard down the block from us. It works well for us, much more convenient than the rat race of street parking. But it was hard to imagine that life with a Tesla. I could probably negotiate that I could plug it into an outlet connected to the guy's house, but I'd only get a slow trickle charge, and it's an odd request he could easily reject. I could rent in a garage with chargers, but there are none near my apartment, and it would also be much more expensive. The thought of only being able to charge at Superchargers was a big turnoff.
I have a friend who is a real estate agent that drive up to 350 miles (563km) a day. He has zero issues. He does not have to "plan" to recharge since the car's nav system does it for him.

>> I mean 1000km in perhaps eight hours of driving, not eight hours of driving plus another eight hours of battery logistics.

You are grossly underestimating the current state EV charging (you seem to be just a tad ignorant on the subject). A typical charging session on a Tesla supercharger is only 10-20 minutes.

At most, a 1017+ km road-trip would only add 40-60 minutes of combined supercharging (3 stops https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=1366ac4f-d815-4e9...). I know because myself and many others have done it.

>> I saw at least a few hundred vehicles on the highway over the weekend (BC, Canada, proper mountains, sometimes 200+km between gas stations) not one seemed electric, certainly none were teslas

I can't tell if your being serious or not. ICE cars have like a 100+ year head-start, not to mention the infrastructure. Of course that would be the case, but not for long...
Different names are alto useful for negatives. Someone writing about an issue with their CDN is far less useful than saying the issue occurs with Akamai.

In general I like to see brand signals: if someone I respect mentions that they use Cloudflare, that is useful information, even without further details.

Unsolicited mentions are usually useful, it's just sneaky paid advertising is bad.
Why would this be the case? Normal stack layout and register allocation already discards things that are not live across function calls. (With some potential wiggle room because that's not the primary goal, I suppose?)
At this point, I'm starting to use duckduckgo not for privacy concerns but because they literally work better for stuff like this
Sure, but a few years ago the same was true of the visual indicators for plain DV https. Browsers responded with an effort to increase adoption of DV certs to the point where positive indicators for encrypted connections could be replaced by negative indicators for unencrypted connections. Could a similar approach not also work with EV certs?

I acknowledge it's a bit harder, since not every site necessarily _needs_ full identity verification. (I don't really care about the legal entity that owns Hacker News, for example, I just care that it's the same site I signed up for back when I first created my account.) But for the sites where it _does_ matter, there's no reason why efforts couldn't be made to shift towards negative security indicators. (For example, perhaps browsers could warn users when the legal entity that owns a site changes.)
You called it a key. I said it is not unless it has a useful purpose.
> But to be fair doing such a thing is invariably already illegal under basic rules of property and tort, it's just that the penalties aren't very much.

It would also be a nightmare to have to go through the court system for every infraction.
"I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left humanity, that they might develop themselves. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun. I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free."

--Eris Nancy Discordia
Do you have any more details? There's dozens of angel groups in the Boston area.
This is awesome that we've seen another horrendous disease go from incurable to curable in my lifetime. While ebola hasn't touched my community like AIDS/HIV has, reading this cracked my RBF and I smiled.
They rank their Polish drivers?
Not yet. We will be open sourcing our React Native SDK in the coming month, and the native SDKs will be open sourced later this year.
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Are you saying you'd have a strong case for libel because you have empirical data to back that up, or are you saying it because you think axiomatically that you should have a strong case?
Mmm. You obviously wouldn't build anything like X.509 today (not least because the X.500 directory system never ended up building that global directory) but over time I appreciate more and more things that I once thought were mistakes in X.509 and ASN.1.

The Distinguished Encoding for example. So easy to build a format that says well you can do X or Y and then you get nasty surprises because which is it?

Or OIDs. Sure today you figure we'll let IANA track things in a registry, or we'll do everything with URLs which are inherently namespaced, but OIDs are in many ways a nicer option than either.
I read the article differently. At the end, the warning seems to be less about lack of disclosure (i.e. funds masquerading as angels) and more about the consequences of taking large amounts of capital under a safe or convertible structure. That is very much a legitimate concern, and a mistake I have seen a number of startups make.
> Implying that Zuckerberg speaks Mandarin and therefore can't be trusted on China is beyond ridiculous.

This is a straw man; the actual argument is that he has been trying to cozy up with the Chinese government to gain a competitive advantage. The full quote:

> Mr. Zuckerberg, who speaks Mandarin, is an odd choice to lead the charge against China. He has spent much of the last decade trying desperately to curry favor with the Chinese government in hopes of getting Facebook’s apps — which are banned there — permission to operate in one of the world’s most lucrative markets. Mr. Zuckerberg even reportedly offered to let Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, name his second child. (Mr. Xi declined.)
I know a couple that have an incredible apartment in the Keys florida. Really amazing. They are both French Us binational. One of them got sick. They live in Paris ever since.

And that does not seem to be an isolate event : I can read weekly horror stories in Hacker News about health bills in the U.S.
I know about the Mercedes but did not know about the Suzuki. My main point though is that this is not a feature in your bog standard Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla or Ford Fusion. I think it should be, it's a huge safety and convenience feature. That it is not in your average car implies it's probably too expensive for the utility it offers the average person.

Personally I solved the problem by buying a lithium ion car starter for both of our cars. Works great, but I really would prefer the cars just had some redundancy built in.
It is not illegal to own a car without a parking spot. Where did you even hear that?
I do not mean to be rude or offensive but are there plans to fix the half-baked type system?

I am using PHP7 at work and the ability to annotate functions with types is a good idea until you get arrays which can take anything (so you can have an array of who-knows-what) so you can't assume further down the call stack that you're dealing with a known type so have to test what you're dealing with, or objects.

It's a bit of a mess to me and makes reading the code very difficult without running it in a debugger to step through what you're dealing with. Generics or some form of strong typing (which seemed to be what the type annotations and return value types hinted at) would really help, particularly with large projects. I am coming from a C++ background.

Any pointers or tips or documentation for me would be welcome.

If P++ pushes some of this strictness further onto the language then great. It saves me having to do it in code.
I mean, you get a similarly portable file with

mysqldump -u username -p database_name > data-dump.sql

and you can load that dump back in with

mysql -u username -p new_database < data-dump.sql

I love sqlite3 for the ease of setting up, and the ability to use in any device or environment immediately, but I'll go to a more featured database like postgres or mysql for larger projects, or for speed. This projects seems to benefit with using mysql to be able to secure the database with a password, as well as the ability to have a timestamp type (but the project saves timestamps with a string rather than a datatime except for user login timestamps so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Except for air conditioning in very hot days. We still break records on hot days.
Im in the Portland area and I've heard from others that have also scored the same.

There was a thread on Slickdeals a while back about it https://slickdeals.net/f/13163326-21-000-off-msrp-2019-volks...
Could you elaborate or point to a resource? AFAIK, term "strongly typed" is usually used to refer to that the type cannot change but I'm failing to find a well defined definition or the comparison against statically typed.
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