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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

Capitulating too early is a somewhat obtuse observation, without offering authentic insight. Put another way, of course such a capitulation is too early, since it seldom isn't premature for any instance in which it's not already too late. The U.S. was wealthy enough to keep going, and could have forced victory if any sort of victory at all costs would have been acceptable.

Suppose, this author sees it another way: perhaps non-pyrrhic in its sacrifices, perhaps less barbaric. It seems his view takes the total reverse of such sentiments.

Really, the thrust of the commencement speech seems to imply that he viewed Americans as not prepared to lay down their lives for the war's cause. He seems to miss the point: Viet Nam wasn't even the kind of fight the people in charge were interested in winning. They just needed a free fire zone and guinea pigs for some science experiments and alcohol induce navel gazing about limited war in the nuclear age.

Philosophical as he seems to be, Solzhenitsyn also glosses over what he really means by: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened."

He doesn't clarify precisely why this might imperil perhaps 60 million souls. Was it simple minded orthodox superstition?

Left unstated, we have no way of know if he harbored a fear of divine consequences and an afterlife. This is laughable though. If he were to let on that it were a deeply held belief in fairy tales, it might be dispelled open handed. Because we know that superstition can be used to embolden suicide attacks just as easily as it can rationalize meekness.

More likely, it was the outward observance of a fearfulness, culturally instilled in prior generations, and that a lack of consideration for others leads to bold impetuousness and hubris. Anyone can see this without leaning on the crutch of "godlessness" but still he saw fit to beat the dead horse of spirituality.

How else can we interpret this? Either he saw religions promises as suitably manipulative to create fear among simpleton peasants, or he preferred the easy comfort of deferring his own agency to an almighty consequence instead of permitting the chance that perhaps atheism doesn't preclude the capacity to rationalize against libertine abandon.

A conscientiousness that died with the old values, since dispelled by the new social norms that fast emerging technological shifts had produced.
Dragonfly could hypothetically launch at some point in the indefinite future, assuming Google's employees don't continue to protest it. Apple has already given the iCloud keys to the PRC without a whimper from any Apple employees. Both are bad, but one is many orders of magnitude worse because it is already actually implemented and causing harm.
Well it is not far fetched that they can smell the excitement or anxiety of their owners as they approach the evidence they believe is the correct one?
Yeah, I agree. There's real issues that arent being addressed, and maybe they can't be addressed. I consider myself smart, but can't really tell whats true anymore. Which side should I be on, why is the USA declining, its complicated
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Keeping the compact pickup truck around would have fended off widescale adoption of the SUV. But no, CAFE killed it [0], so now we have worse MPG issues, no small pickup trucks, and a shitload of SUVs and large trucks instead.

Well-intentioned regulation going bad. A story as old as America, really.

[0]: https://jalopnik.com/how-the-government-killed-fuel-efficien...
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Keep in mind 5000 Rs is equivalent to around 80 USD.
There's a lot of discussion in the Wikipedia article saying that you can't compare rates internationally. Please be a bit more careful with statistics.
"It is extremely easy for sophisticated governments in the USA and Israel to identify who has donated"

Not really.

If someone is sending money from their Coinbase on-exchange wallet then fair enough, but if the wallet holder has not been through a KYC process then (while it's in the public ledger) it's still almost impossible to track the source of the funds - knowing the source and destination wallets tells you nothing.
Not having to be in the same WiFi network is part of the whole point of AirDrop is it it?
Russia is very much in support of a multi-polar world and so of course they're going to actively report on activities that paint our global hegemony in a negative light. But at the same time much of the 'western' world's media tends to be vehemently in favor of said hegemony, and consequently tend to actively report on activities that paint the 'outsiders' in a negative light.

But let's consider the yellow vest protests, in terms of scale and consequence, for just one moment. At their peak they attracted hundreds of thousands of people and have resulted in thousands of injuries largely at the hands of police violence. There have been numerous blindings due to police intentionally firing 'nonlethal' weapons at protesters' faces. Others have been mutilated or lost limbs due to police using tear gas canisters that are occasionally laced with explosives to deter protesters from simply throwing them back at police.

This [1] interview from the Guardian shows what said 'tear gas' can do. There have also been numerous deaths. Most have been tangential (vehicular related) but one was quite dystopic. An 80 year old woman who was killed after being hit by a police gas canister. She was not involved in the protests. She was killed while at her window after being struck by a tear gas canister. [2]

Biases in what is reported on by either ideologies media does not mean what is being reported on is fake, nor does it mean that what either group chooses not to report on is not relevant. If something of an identical scale to the Yellow Vest protests was happening in mainland China, with comparable consequences, it would be being reported on 24/7 by the 'western' media as an example of China engaging in systemic violence against people just seeking 'freedom'.

And that is simply if it was of the same size. Now imagine you scale up something to proportional size based on population. China has ~ 21x as many people as France. Such a protest there would involve millions of protesters, tens of thousands of injuries, and hundreds of deaths. Same proportions and consequences, but it now sounds so different doesn't it?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoYFjryuFjs

[2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46429930
Annoyingly Chrome doesn't even show the 'www' any more unless you actually click on the URL bar
But isn't the address is published on their website... ?
For general SVG "sketchy" effect, Rough.js is a very cool library: https://roughjs.com/ https://github.com/pshihn/rough/

https://roughjs.com/examples/bar-chart.html is an example of a bar chart built up with D3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571827 was the discussion when it was first submitted
I never understood why generated API docs are "documentation". That is source, trivial technical info which is easy to find in the source anyway.

I never got documentation about the thought processes, the iterations, the design meeting, the considerations, etc. Which is way, way more important to understanding a system in context than knowing "convertLinear" takes 2 unsigned ints.
Highly probable. Cloudflare, for example, has CNAME flattening to address this problem.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc...
The Supercharger network is not going to be a major thing anytime soon in Seattle where we have very cheap hydroelectric power (10c/kWh or less, hence why solar adoption here sucks [the weather isn't helping much either though it's less bad than people think]) and a packed city with terribly expensive real estate that makes it uneconomical for Tesla to build out massively in the city (plus our geography is stupid, look at the giant body of water splitting our city in two).

The Supercharger network will be used - and is currently used - to bridge longer commutes fast. Not for intra-city deployment; at least not at the moment.
>the web is currently the most user-friendly, widely-used VM [where anybody (technical or not) could run almost anything] that we have. I see a lot of people suggesting that we burn that down, but I'm not sure they've really thought about what's going to happen afterwards.

Could you say more about this? Previously, I asked you for technical information, but here I'm after your aspirations and maybe your values. What is so great about a state of affairs in which the average consumer can decide where on the internet to go today and at each stop (e.g., web page) along the way, code written by the owner of the web page is sent to the consumer's computer and is transparently run with the user's having to install anything?

My guess is that you dream of using the internet to create compelling experiences that move many (million?) of people, and you consider documents consisting of text, images and links to other documents woefully inadequate for that purpose, but let's hear from you.

(BTW, I don't care about using the internet to consume compelling or moving experiences -- or more precisely ordinary text documents, images, audios and videos are the only types of compelling / moving experiences that I use the internet to consume, and I have no need or desire for more than that.)
>...and the woods that do remain are typically private property.

I've heard that in the states you can own a piece of property but have "no right" to get to it, as it's surrounded by other pieces of private property and, so, you're at the whims of those properties' owners. Is this true?

In Sweden, we have the concept of 'Allemansrätten'[0]; which is to say that 'private property' (in the absolute sense) doesn't exist and you have the freedom to roam, as long as you don't disturb or destroy anything.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Sweden
Will someone please tell me what the purpose is of this article being published? Is it to criticize the Chinese government for producing Fake News? Is it to blame Twitter for it's lack of activism to stand for the free folk of Hong Kong? I'm guessing there's more than one side of this story..

Media will always be used as a tool to combat other media in order to sway public opinion. Why are we not constantly talking about Tibet anymore or police brutality and #BlackLivesMatter in the US? There seems to be a different motive, and for the average reader that consumes media, it becomes increasingly harder to form a coherent self-thought opinion by themselves and reach out of this echo chamber.

It seems like every article I read about HongKong in -Europe & the US- is amped up on anti-Chinese sentiment whilst a large part of the people that demonstrate are doing so because of dissatisfaction on living conditions and purchasing power. They live in a city with wild inequality, and they could also care less about economic disruption and incurred costs by the aviation/hospitality sector. It seems to me they're just "pissed and want things to change". Fueled by the international media-attention. However blatantly simplistic that might sound.
I don't really get your game. Is the block floating away and you need to keep it in the screen by shooting the hook?
If yes, what decides when your hook gets loose?

I am developing my first ever game! I think the mobile gaming market is missing actual games that try something new and that are not built around milking money and putting some standard game mechanics around it.

My game is called Neon Sling:
This video shows a much older built than I have right now but shows the core gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhmjATLaSk

You can also play a more recent build from the play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.OlafEsSaad...

I think it is a lot of fun, although there is not much progression at the moment.

This is what I am gonna add till release:
A "tutorial", I want to unlock new mechanics with every level and explain them first. Right now you start with every mechanic available and it is confusing for new player who don't even know what to do at all.

Second I want to add different ball/background skins that change the gameplay up. For example, the time power up would add one more second or each combo gives 5 points more.
You can buy these unlocks with the points that act as your score.
The idea was that you can experiment with different combinations to find the one which gets you the highest score.
Also leaderboards are missing.

I would love if anyone wants to try it out, give feedback and/or ideas!
IMO it would be false to not describe Waldorf pedagogics as a cult. Steiner literally said he got his insights through visions where god spoke to him.

And most axioms of Waldorf pedagogics have been been empirically falsified in the past decades.

Luckily the parental household still is the strongest indicator for intellectual outcome of the kids. And as the kids in Waldorf schools are usually self-selected from middle and upper class households, one usually hasn't many dire social or economic problems in a class. So all in all the negative effect of Waldorf schools isn't big.
They probably should forbid all Western media as well, as they has been spreading propaganda against China, without doing basic fact checking and actually got people like you to believe that there is "actual genocide"

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-specific-examples-of-medi...
Apple's open-source mDNS/DNS-SD implementation mDNSResponder underlies Android's NSD API, so I could one day see seamless interoperability over Wi-Fi Aware being a thing. I wouldn't bet on it happening, but given Windows (which ships with an mDNS/DNS-SD stack) and Android will be doing it before too long, I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple join the party.
>> porsche

>> price is not that ridiculous

This seems like an insanely unlikely combination.
The fact that "human rights" are an objective value doesn't mean that every country has to necessarily abide by them.

>A proper human morality stems from what best provides for a high quality of life for humans.

Ah, morality. What a can of worms are you opening to justify your beliefs!

What's funnier is that these arguments always come from leftists... the very same people who are always so quick to shoot down imperialism. But cultural imperialism, where you use your military power to shove your "morality" up everybody else's butts, now that's okay. Because it's "human rights" and stuff. Yeah.
Another hitjob on Bitcoin paid for & promoted by old money.

Terrorists using Bitcoin for funding are idiots. They're creating an undeniable, timestamped treasure trove of digital evidence which is far simpler to trace and track than any cash transactions.

I would hope intelligence services are trying to lure terrorists in to using Bitcoin by pushing articles like this as opposed to actually believing that Bitcoin transactions can't be tracked and can't be used to hunt down funding sources.
Religion can be useful as a knowledge-set of distilled, inherited cultural lessons and values.

Afaik he said to not abandon it entirely. He thought we had a sort of new religion in each world, materialism in the west.
Maybe Twitter's TOS was flawed from the start and shouldn't the bar for judgement now?
Not OP but here's one way:

Softbank invests in Uber India pushing up automobile demand[1]. Indian drivers buy cars manufactured by Maruti Suzuki (54% market share [2]). Maruti Suzuki is a JV between an Indian company (Maruti) and Suzuki (Japan) where-in Maruti pays 6% of sales as royalty for design and other facilities. In addition, you have to realize that Japan exports $35b of auto parts and $101b of automobiles [4]. So any lever which pushes up sales of automobiles in any nation is bound to have an impact on exports.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/dema...

[2] https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/passenger-veh...

[3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/low...

[4] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/jpn/
This is definitely the most likely scenario. This has wider implications beyond car delivery, of course. If Chinese EV cars are acceptable to American consumers, then a lot has happened between now and then which is going to have serious impact on global trade.
His loyalty is to his company. Why would you expect anything else?
FYI, PyYAML 5.1 partially fixes the security issues:

https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/265
They are barely bouyant - helium works much better
I grew up on the Gold Coast and definitely enjoyed that birthright, playing in the ocean shallows from before I could walk, doing nippers at age 6, etc, but I believe the Queensland standard has also dropped to 50m. I don't think many public schools there have pools even now though, it was almost all private ones when I was a kid. A big differentiator in Qld was the huge number of backyard pools, but they seem to be disappearing as Qld catches up population wise with the southern states, not to mention costs with recent droughts.

Watching my nephews that nature of their swimming seems to be a bit different, for me we were riding or bikes to pools/beaches by ourselves from the age of about 9, they live in Brisbanes suburbia and have to be driven to a pool/beach and then supervised. They're largely left to their own merits once they get there, but it's more of a family thing than a friends thing and they don't have to learn there own dispute resolution and the like, nor do they get to decide when to go and when to leave.
BTC, no.. if you’re implemented a cryptocurrency using for example ethereum, you could easily do that, and some actually do so.
Hehe No! Crazy. That sounds a lil like the Adventure Shell, bash as text adventure game.[0]

It seems Doom as a tool for system administration[1] inspired psDoom. (And does explain it a lot better, for people like me that don't know psDoom or Doom) It says "The mapping of abstract operations to an intuitive environment is a difficult problem. There are two distinct obstacles.." which is exactly what I wanted, thanks! Hehe that page is very funny, and brilliant. I'm finding other leads from comments from its many appearances on HN over the years.

Edit: Also good is Chao's follow-up 2001 paper Doom as an Interface for Process Management, reporting user feedback ("0.6% were frightened by its implications") and the huge response to psDoom. That has a lot of fascinating-looking references. So thanks very much for that.

[0] http://nadvsh.sourceforge.net/

[1] https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
This assumes those companies will solve the energy storage issue in a reasonable amount of time.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Tesla does a lot of shit wrong, but Musk is ahead of people RE: batteries and energy storage importance.

I am reminded of Bezos saying that their headstart in AWS with no viable competitor for years and years on end is what catapulted Amazon to what it is today. Tesla has a shot of making that true with regard to batteries.
>Solzhenitsyn reminded people that having the right to do something does not make it right. What troubled him most was that elites trivialized the civilizational struggle between freedom and tyranny.

>Under despotism, Solzhenitsyn could readily spot an informant or a self-seeking careerist. In the West, where almost everyone seemed forthright and earnest, he put his faith in people who let him down or took advantage of his inexperience.

Wow this actually hits close to home.

I've certainly been a more naive type, and sadly fallen for the same kind of thing even growing up here.

There are some good people, but I think we're falling apart without enough of them and it is hard to talk about this.
True, but by the time something goes wrong (read: explosions) having a digital paper trail is moot.
TBH, the construction of Riemann surfaces from the natural numbers is pretty well understood by the average UK undergraduate. (Natural->Integer->Rational->Real->Complex->Foundations of Reimann Surfaces). The expression of the rules of natural numbers in ZFC is fully understood by far fewer, but that’s mostly because it’s tedious.
Imagine if Netflix says it won't expense content :-) . That's one of the hundreds of analogies I have read about this creative accounting practice.
> this technology

XMPP over Zeroconf (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html) has already existed for many years and at least previously has been trivial to enable on Ubuntu (I haven't tried it recently).
Destination is ofcourse (which can also be generated new for each donation btw) but what about the source? It could be anyone. There are services and protocol like coinjoin and tumble that will mix transactions, making it further impossible to narrow down on the right source
So something can be done, if the terrorists happen to be using a crypto with that functionality included. So basically, nothing can be done if they just use a different network? Or even just the most popular network.
I wonder if these rules are really that universal when you consider the UX and needs of different sectors such as banking, aviation or governmental for that matter.

Plus there's always that economic trade-off of filling the consumer's windows with ads, bloat and Pavlovian purchase incentives. (Yes, I'm looking at you Booking.com)
You know more than the source and destination for a transaction - you know the entire chain of custody for any flow of value.

Governments are very certainly tracking this. With augmentation and pattern matching, they will know quite a bit.
This is beautiful, I feel like I should memorize the entire thing.
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I can see Lisp is the ‘new’ React. Two years ago there were loads of articles about React, prior to that it was just Javascript. I can see people got enough of Javascript.
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Please don't link to articles that require creating an account.
Just saw one in the back country in Finland. Really deep in the sticks and on a small road. Was a great moment seeing it there. The electric revolution is coming along and unstoppably.
Now would be a great time to get a career going in electrification. Electric installation / Solar power installation you name it, the demand will skyrocket.
My opinion:

It's sad that we have such a terrible education system.
It's an insult to injury that the "BigCo" consistently fuel these learning groups as a marketing stunt.

I can't begin to describe the sheer amount of bright peers that think using the GCP/Amazon web interface is equivalent to real programming.
Your analysis doesn't consider that the energy leaking through the walls of the coolbox depends on how cold it is.

That has a pretty significant effect in favour of plain old water.
Just resign the app IPA file and you can literally drag and drop it through Xcode onto your iOS devices. Unless you mean pirating apps with sideloading...
> The fact that "human rights" are an objective value doesn't mean that every country has to necessarily abide by them.

It does, however, mean that the countries which do not abide by them deserve to be - and if history is any indicator, will be - overthrown and replaced by countries that do.
like in that old jewish story[1]..."Getting rid of that Goat was a godsend, I feel like the house is so much larger, so much cleaner".

[1] http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109598
yuck, since when medium added paywall?
While I agree with you entirely on the authoritarian vs. free state issue, your comments here are deeply, fundamentally ignorant of pretty much the entire field of ethics and philosophy.

In fact, this sort of oversimplification is itself dangerous, even if it is for a “good” cause, simply because it lends ammunition to your opposition, subsequently helping the exact people you are fighting against.