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> you are always allowed to buy back the bonds at their nominal value

That’s very surprising. Do you have a reference in English?

Edit: nevermind, I’ve found that’s indeed the case and those are callable bonds (so the prepayment risk is included in the price).
> Another nice thing: the node_modules folder for this Hello World Svelte app totals only 29MB and 242 packages

"Only".
If your reflexes are that good, sure.
Ahh... The good 'ol technique for avoiding NPEs in Java.
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This reads exactly like a press release from W3W, the private entity. I'm not clear on why the BBC thought it would be within their rights to publicise it in this way, other than they didn't know they were basically advertising a product (NOT doing so is a cornerstone of the BBC philisophy).

It's also entirely unclear to me why the emergency services dispatchers wouldn't just ask a caller to read out their GPS location from any webservice which can report it. Hell, they could set up "999.gov.uk" or similar to show exactly their GPS location.
It's easier to say a string of words than a string of numbers. There's also more intrinsic redundancy against small mistakes, that with a co-ordinate could move the designated area by hundreds of miles.

I don't like the fact it's an opaque monopoly, but as a way to designate locations for human use, it's effective.
> If GitHub wants to track people across all .github.io pages, it can, trivially. It controls the infrastructure, after all.*

If WebKit fully implements what they're describing here then GitHub should not be able to use their control of *.github.io to track people across those pages.
I think Amiga could have challenged that.
Reminds me of asking what punk is, only that one usually elicits a more profane response.
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Because of costs.

If you look at the reasons in France, I suspect CO2 did not matter much, but rather that it was a matter of national security.

If the European nations of today started to feel threatened, I'm sure you'd see plenty of public funding for renewables and nuclear.

Anyway, we'll get there some day, it least with renewables that are falling in price year by year.
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For those who are wondering what this refers to, it is writing code like this:

"foo".equals(myVar)

instead of writing:

myVar.equals("foo")

which could can cause NullPointerException if myVar is null.
I really like the idea of an open hackable tablet but the screen resolution of 1280x800 might be limiting. My digital life revolves around my 11" iPad Pro (except for my GPU rig for ML and coding, and a MacBook for light weight dev and also writing) and the hires display is important.
There's many recorded instances of stuff like this happening (mostly during WW2 since that was the last time we had large numbers of people falling out of planes). If you hit things that let you decelerate over enough distance to not go splat then you can survive. IIRC one guy landed in water at terminal velocity and only broke his ankles because he landed feet first instead of belly flopping. Obviously there is some luck involved.
what context does 'bears.agitated.trampolines' mean? It has exactly the same amount of information as 53.958332, -1.080278, not only that but if you've _ever_ tried to say words over the telephone on a bad line, you end up having to do the NATO alphabet (did you say bears or chairs?), so you're reading out letters anyway. Not only _that_ but _everyone_ can plug long/lat co-ordinates into something and get an answer, they don't need a proprietary piece of software to achieve the same goal.
Pipenv has a good approach to management, similar to npm, but the implementation is buggy. It gained popularity by being recommended very early on in the official python documentation while being misleadingly advertised as production-ready.

If you look at the issues section in its github repo, you'll see that there are some pretty basic bugs there which are very annoying or disruptive. Moreover it seems the author has almost left the boat and a handful of contributors have to tidy things up.

Just to illustrate my point. I think a package manager that takes a few minutes to install a single tiny package, or don't prevent you from adding non-existing packages (e.g. spelling mistake), or doesn't let you install a new package without trying to upgrade all other packages isn't really production-ready. These are known issues since November last year.
I would argue that we do not yet have a true way of offsetting carbon emissions.

Planting trees (that take decades to grow might or might not release the carbon again soon after) or helping other people emit less does not render your emissions harmless.

The only way that can work is to take it out of the atmosphere again for good. Is there is an offsetting option that I'm not aware of that does this?
That's absolutely been my experience as well. I used to shop a lot on Amazon around 2007. I've seen the decline firsthand. These days I treat it like a (somewhat) American Alibaba when I'm looking for cheap stuff where the idea of "knockoff" almost doesn't even really apply. Last thing I bought was some connector pins and what I expect to be harbor freight quality crimping pliers.

If I'm spending serious money, it's not going to be with Amazon.
I recently went on a trip to a power station and came away with the understanding that as far as electricity goes, Switzerland is somewhat screwed.

Switzerland has 5 nuclear plants operating right now, which produce 34% of its electricity (with hydro accounting for another 60%) [0] however these plants are approaching the ends of their lives and a referendum in 2017 banned new plants [1], so we need to find an alternative way to replace them.

Expanding hydro isn't an easy option because there's nowhere to build new dams (and the populace is generally against it) and the glaciers that provide the water are shrinking due to climate change. This will produce a burst of extra capacity but following that hydro won't be a viable option. There are plans to turn a few existing resevoirs into pumped storage facilities [2] but this isn't a great deal of capacity.

Wind can be a part of the overall solution but it's not enough. The Swiss government (optimistically) plans to have ~300GWh/month by 2050 [3] but that's only ~5% of Switzerland's current consumption.

Solar is another potential part of the solution but current capacity is minimal and adoption hasn't been going well [4].

The Swiss government has a 2050 energy plan [5] but it doesn't seem realistic to me. For one, they expect a 43% decrease in overall energy consumption _and_ a 13% decrease in electricity consumption. Assuming most of the non-electric consumption is from cars and it's reduced in favor of EVs, I just don't see how electricity consumption can be less than it is today.

In the end, I think Switzerland is going to be heavily dependent on importing energy from elsewhere in Europe unless it removes the nuclear ban in the immediate future. It doesn't look likely that it's going to be able to replace the lost capacity with renewables quickly enough.

[0]: https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/wirtschaft...

[1]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/vote-opener/43190762

[2]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/hydropower_swiss-alps-proposed-...

[3]: https://www.uvek-gis.admin.ch/BFE/storymaps/EE_WEA/index.php...

[4]: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2018/07/12/switzerland-close-to-...

[5]: https://www.bfe.admin.ch/bfe/en/home/policy/energy-strategy-...
The ban might be a drop in the bucket overall, but the ban and the sometimes hilarious attempts at automated enforcement was a huge hit to reputation. What that means for Tumblr's future is uncertain.
It's not an advertisement, the BBC are explicitly not allowed to provide that kind of content. Also, you've got to understand the mentality of someone when they are stressed and scared. They wouldn't be thinking straight and the fairly simple task of following a line on Google Maps becomes much harder. Additionally, when dealing with navigating in rural locations, it's not as simple as just 'go in straight line to place X'. There is terrain to navigate around, which is not obvious in the dark, especially when you're not familiar with the location.

They had obviously got to the point of calling the emergency services, so let's make it easier for them to be located, rather than complaining that they should have just got their compass out and sucked it up.
Again, thank you and good luck.
They only got 6 engineers and I am not sure their method would have scaled if they needed a few more. Since they had investment money it might have been better to spend more to find people faster.
Yeah but the US government has checks and balances the average private company does not. The president has to get an attorney general confirmed, there are laws preventing him from using political considerations to affect civil service hiring, etc.

In a private company, the CEO can simply fire anyone in HR who stands up to them, no questions asked. In toxic situations HR often actively covers for bad behavior because the perpetrator signs their pay checks.

Not to say HR is useless and many times they can be an effective check on behavior. But as we've seen in some of these high profile cases of misconduct, HR has enabled abusers by taking their side against victims.
"Paradox" does not mean "contradiction", it means "appears to be a contradiction (at least at first glance) whether or not it actually is".

This result is highly unintuitive to humans, and is hence a paradox.
Can you out-Vizzini your partner or friend in a Battle of Wits?
Salary in Sweden is publicly available information.
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This flood of eating babies should terrify us all

Eating babies is everywhere, trickling down into all corners of society, an unstoppable lava of lust wherever you look.

"It seems that eating babies is becoming more and more common", said a hardworking family. "Frankly I think this is all the fault of Jeremy Corbyn fans and minimum wage workers".

The fashionable thinking is that eating babies is harmless; eating babies is good for us. But this is not the case, as eating babies will ultimately lead to being foreign and suspicious looking, and that's just not how we do things in Britain.
Google science award restricts people to teenagers. Any events that does similar to adults as well?
Am I sure pretty any that linter warning a throw can of instead breaking flow the both of reading writing and.
Sure, but it really does depend on who you interact with.
My aunt runs a care home, and I had this discussion with her once - she said something like "oh I dread getting old, you can't do anything anymore, your memory goes, you can't go to the toilet by yourself, you can't dress yourself, moving anywhere can kill you....being old is horrible!", to which I replied that you know, you probably feel that way because 100% of old people you interact with on the daily basis are like this. Those who are well just don't go into care homes when they are old, so you never see them, but they are definitely out there.
Not really. Right now in the present day, the Chinese are accused of using Falun Gong political prisoners as organ harvest victims. All it requires is a corrupt system, enough political power to make dissenters think twice, and buyers who will take "a new liver now" over "an ethical liver when you reach the head of the line".
Important note: Secure Boot is not designed to defend against an attacker with physical access to a machine

Unfortunately, in practice that's what it often does, and the user is considered an "attacker". All this complexity is scary, and threatens to turn PCs into locked-down devices like the mobile world has done. I wonder if pre-UEFI/pre-ME x86 systems will become more valuable sometime in the future, because of this.
My impression is that France's nuclear policy was born out of their "Thanks, but no thanks" relationship to NATO. Meaning that France's domestic energy was an outgrowth of their decision to go their own way for defense (post Suez Canal?).
I loved Svelte a few years back and still think it's a nice framework with cool ideas. However, a big issue for me using it at a company is that testing (especially unit testing) seems to be an afterthought. This has made it a non-starter for using it with multiple teams working on same code base. Maybe it's changed with Svelte 3 but a library I wrote for it wasn't clear how to test.

(Edit sounds same:
https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-do-test...)

JS libraries sometimes take a non-presciptive approach of "test however you want!", But roll your own testing for a UI framework really limits adoption and enthusiasm at larger companies.
Can I pay the manufacturer of a good directly and walk into a retail store to pick it up?

But let’s not be overly idealistic, the vast majority of revenue in either App Store is from games and most of that is from in app purchases of coins, gyms, loot boxes etc.
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When I was learning to drive, my biggest complaint was that I couldn't hear the engine when there was noise in the area - it was a very quiet one. It made it harder to do hill starts and clutch balancing. Now I drive a diesel.
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No. But if you’re a startup you are probably okay. If you are a Fortune 500, probably not. May I recommend reaching out to their sales team to find their customers or better recent customers and why they left
hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, "we don't know" is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn't ordered any parts.

For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: https://i.imgur.com/anUASlT.jpg
you've missed a closing " which makes this read differently than intended
This has been a feature of Adobe Analytics for over a decade. Google Analytics doesn't currently offer this as a feature, but some enterprising individuals have explored how to hack it in after ITP 2.1 was announced.
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Interestingly, this is NOT the first time tings like this happened. There are a few people that survived freefall from absurd heights [1]

My favorite website that documents all these things is the Free Fall Research Page [2] that to my dismay now seems to be on the bottom of the second google search results page.

Most people have this image about falls that you fall from heights you die, but some people are lucky and it really depends on how and where you fall. I was with some friends once and was mentioning about all these people that survived free fall and I was surprised to get some really incredulous looks of the type "Sure they did buddy, do you believe everything you read?" even tough these cases are well documented. I think it just goes to show that if something is deemed impossible in popular culture it might as well not happen at all, ever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fall_survivors

[2] http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html
I've found it's better to write normal conditions that are easier to read and leave it to your linter to catch unintended assignments.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668792
Do you actually have figures to back that up? HR's job is primarily to support the currently existing power structure.
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The fact that stars appear close despite being incredibly far away, and the fact that the earth appears flat (and that we don't fall off) despite being spherical are both, indeed, paradoxes.
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Sure, I feel that too sometimes. Sometimes it's because I don't know the other person well so I don't know how they feel about it, so I start to worry that it feels awkward to them and that makes me want to alleviate it for their sake. Often I'm probably just overthinking it.

It can also be tiring when someone dominates a conversation, it really just depends who it is. I have some friends who I could listen to all day, and they'd happily talk all day.
wonder if all the cloud complexity might one day wrap back around to something very simple again

Yes, all these solutions are gradually converging back to CGI.
There is nothing vague about it and it may even happen earlier and nobody is talking about it happening later or not at all.
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"Bears... no, bears, you know like Yogi and Boo Boo. Agitated, like I'm getting now. Trampolines, those things you bounce up and down on".

And when I said context, I didn't mean that they would understand what those three words point to, but rather they instantly can read those words having read them before. Long/Lat for most people isn't something they have ever used, so simple things like the "-1" might get missed. Admittedly the operator is likely to know that '1.080278' doesn't make sense given the country they are in and will automatically add the -, but it doesn't hurt to have options?
Treating the symptom: Pollute the codebase with warped code.

Treating the cause: Use static analysis.
Recruiters are the worst. Spam marketing is what is these days. A waste of time for you, them, and the "potential hires". You get what you pay for. Staff is one thing. Using a third party recruiter is shite.

HR flacks are also up there, vying for to be the worst. Usually doesn't know shit from shinola, never worked in a relevant industry -- this is why hiring from within and letting your staff run the show is important.
This! Scrum and Agile appear at first glance to be methodologies that empower technical teams. E.g. The team selects from the backlog a set of tasks they think they can complete in the next push; management and the 'product owner' participate only in the capacity of 'observer'. It loos like a nice way of de-stressing tech work - a team takes on only what it thinks it can achieve.

In practice, management prioritises the backlog; the SCRUM leader is often management's lackey; it is career-limiting to offend the 'product owner'; and as a matter of practical observation, Agile/SCRUM teams always give themselves more work to do in a push than they are able to accomplish.

SCRUM/Agile is a way to get workers to impose abusive management on themselves. (Not always; if management gets out of the way, and the team is really good at Agile/SCRUM, it doesn't have to be abusive).
Ok, but I don't see the relevance of that point to what I said in my comment.
Oh yeah you're right, doh. For some reason I assumed the Shenzen company also owns hengda.
They're not real, they're Twitter chat bots. That Amazon thinks this was a good PR move is truly astonishing.
I'm always shocked by the lack of integration among Google's various products. The amount of time my Google Home replies to a simple question with "I'm not sure how to help with that" is mind-boggling. Some variation of "I don't have a great answer, but I've sent some Google search results to your phone to review!" seems like an infinitely better (and obvious) alternative for the global leader in search, but they've for some reason ignored this for years.
When cycling, I find that a simple fleece headband/hat that covers the ears is wonderful at stopping the wind noise, but letting in all the other important noises.
There's a lot of bits that don't make very much sense. Hypotheticals involving people don't have a phone signal and can't be sent the app by emergency services but they can still convey a what3words message to them (using what? semaphore?) People don't already have a GPS enabled app on their phone?

Relevant PG article that always gets brought up here when an article which is obviously a PR effort gets posted here
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I remember reading about someone jumping from a big height and purposefully going in feet first to break his legs and not his back, but I've always wondered how deep you would actually go if you hit the water hard enough to break your ankles.

I mean, it's already a slightly terrifying experience to jump from a tall trampoline and go a few meters deep, if you're not used to it.
Whenever I read a story like this, I immediately think of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5xLVx2NGY
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She added "As it turns out reading the works of Karl Marx is almost completely identical to cancer, in how it affects the balance of our chakras
In modern cars the airbag will not fire if the seatbelt is not used. This is the reason why we even have seat belt detectors that make this annoying noise - not just to annoy you but also to figure out whether its safe to fire airbag or not.

Getting hit with airbag into the face when wearing eye glasses for example... that would suck, would it not?
Why do you think that? Is there, to you, anything unintuitive or unexpected, relative to intuitions, that is not a paradox?
This sounds awfully like a PR puff piece. (In fact a link to it is liked by their PR person https://twitter.com/miriamfrankLDN/likes, and the images come straight from their PR archive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S-kYBJIjhfkIElyONvod...)

If they had a smartphone with GPS and data connectivity so they could download an app, they could use that to share their exact coordinates without having to download this proprietary app that wants to copyright the concept of location.

Just on my homescreen alone I have 4 apps that can already share my exact location: Google Maps, Apple Maps, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger
defo a bot, the fact they are using different account's to reply. super weird.
> Terror expert Ian Dunkin-Donuts has analysed the phenomenon in a new book which we certainly aren't plugging although it is available from our bookshop for just £7.99; a fantastic 1.7% discount.

Too funny. Nicely done.
It all depends on the contract. You can get a not-so-low rate that gives you the option of prepayment (with some fixed penalty).
That moment when you're not sure if it's a fake or original.
Awesome work!
As a former Canonical (Ubuntu Phone team) engineer I do like the ideas of indie OS, be it Ubuntu Touch, Open webOS, or even LineageOS Android for Pi. We'll definitely work with communities closely to bring more options to CutiePi.

After all, free software is all about choices.
Just because the BBC didn't know it was an advertisement doesn't mean it isn't an advertisement. I have sent an email to their news team encouraging them to re-read the article and letting them know that they may be accidentally promoting a product. I suspect their editors may have mistaken the "scientific" skin of the article as being of academic interest rather than of business interest.
We have aircraft designed to do stovl and do it correctly.

Vertical landing with the F35 is exactly safe. It's the definition of safe, it's been done thousands of times with zero incidents. It was done hundreds of thousands of times in the Harrier before, and they applied the safety lessons learned from the Harrier to the JSF. How many rockets has spacex lost already?

rockets are for a completely different use case.

This is a ridiculous discussion. It's absurd.
Of course it's satire.

It also accurately reflects the behaviour of management at the last company I worked for (after that job, I retired). For nearly every gag in the article, I silently said to myself "check".
Thanks. Fixed now.
Like Google did it in the old days?

> "READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY, THIS IS NOT THE NORMAL YADDA YADDA

> We are going to READ ALL YOUR FILES to index them.

> If you have a problem with this, cancel the installation.

> We are not going to ..."

This is how I remember that part of the installation process for Google Desktop Search. Crystal clear. I knew exactly what was supposed to happen and I had a warning in case it wouldn't be OK with policies at work.

And yes, YADDA YADDA or something similarily sounding was part of the first line.
solution: don't have assignment operator.