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> To say that say a trait we only know to be a significant marker to mental retardation isn't inferior, due to moral reasons seems in bad faith

(1) traits aren't markers: mental retardation is a trait, some Gene may be a marker.

(2) I'm not saying that anything “isn’t inferior, due to moral reasons”. On the other hand, I'm saying that any designation of “inferiority” is (not restricted to genes, but ever, anywhere) a subjective value judgement. And that because of the complexities at play in genetics, people will quite vehemently disagree on judgements about which genes are inferior and should be eradicated, both because they will disagree about which traits should be eradicated and because very often the relationship between traits and genes is complex.

> What we're discussing is whether or not we can morally proceed with any type of engineering.

Sure, that's part of the discussion, and I'm saying, on that question, if it is morally permissible and Nazi eugenics is not, it because you are making tools available that people can choose to use the same way they choose partners potentially for genetic reasons, not imposing their use top-down on society and culling “undesirables.” And not because “the traits we've decided to eliminate are really bad, and those we've decided to promote are really good, unlike the Nazis who made dubious decisions as to the targeting of their eugenics program.”

> As if doing so would without fail become "lets make black people more dumb, because we don't like them"

Are you guaranteeing that all the resulting technology will be freely available to all? Because even if we except that the techniques themselves will be “good” in individual application, that's literally exactly what they should be expected to become except not for the “because we don't like them” reason, but instead for the “because their poor” reason.
`blob/master` isn't a suitable permalink. Use the first few letters of the commit hash so the line numbers and code are still relevant when this file inevitably gets modified.
Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base?
For years I've used things like self-hosted wiki (mediawiki, TracWiki etc), Atlassian Confluence, and lately just a Github wiki to note down things I or team mates might forget and having a place to keep a structured knowledge.

It all still feels clumsy, no longer want self-hosted services and they are all somewhat hard to edit&navigate.

Are you happy with your solution for sharing with the team mates&storing your knowledge for easy retrieval? What is it?
>>You can get a different, cheaper size, as long as it doesn't rub the wheel well or bottom out.

In the UK you have to tell your insurer if you do that and it can impact your insurance significantly in some cases. The best one I could find was with Aviva they allow 10mm variation in width of the tyre from the manufacturer spec, so if the original size was 225/45 you could buy 235/45 or 215/45, but anything beyond that would require you telling them and have an impact on your premium. Chaging the rims to a different size always requires telling the insurer, even if they are the manufacturer's original rims(which is incredibly dumb, I bought my car with factory 20" wheels, I bought an original set of wheels directly from the dealership in 19" size but I still have to tell my insurer because it's a "modification" to the factory spec of the vehicle).
Peterson is unbelievably well read, he was on a project for the United Nations and read 300 books on climate science. I'd be very hesitant before accusing him of criticising a book or author without having done his research. I've seen him catch out interviewers a few times where they hadn't read the material in question, but he had and knew it very well.
It's not news that people are predicting a 2020 recession. The bond yield inversions are literally people putting their money where their mouth is and betting on a recession. The definition of an inversion is that 3 month bonds yields better than 10 year bonds. The first inversions happened in March. It has been a mistake to go 10 year over 3 month. The 3 month bonds would have returned already and then you could have picked up the 10 year. It's completely irrational to make these decisions unless you are predicting a crash.

It's not just bonds. Price of Gold has skyrocketed since June; Gold is higher than it has been for years. Bitcoin is back above $10,000. These are your standard mechanisms to isolate your money from a crashing market.

https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ismreport/mfgro...

ISM is somewhat of a decent report. Soon as they lower below 50% it means manufacturing is shrinking; which means layoffs. July 2019 new orders are 50.8%.

Nissan is laying off 12,500. GM closing multiple plants. Ford has $20 billion cash stashed and layoffs. Chrysler is laying off thousands. Toyota, Honda, everyone is laying off.

Recession is coming for sure, no question.
Money is time, bottled.

Stocks/Bonds are money converted into "abstract human output". You are taking a bet that the group of humans that work at the companies that you've invested in will continue to become more advanced and efficient as to "generate value".

The stock market is "sentiment". It is collective group think as to what those companies are up to.

This is why you see people say "don't touch it". If you don't need the money now, the advances in "value creation" will possibly give you more money in the future.

I think the number one disservice that "stocks/investing" do is pretend it's not "gambling". Sure, you can minimize risk, and choose instruments that are 99% sound (gov bonds) but it's still _a gamble._

You are scared because you don't understand your risk exposure. (also, black swan events could change the exposure, but they are exactly that -- black swans)

You can:

- Decide to stop playing the game, convert your stocks/bonds into money which gives you absolute units and pegs your risk to inflation/deflation/government default.

- You can continue playing the game, and decide what your risk tolerances are, and adjust your strategy accordingly. This should give you a little bit more peace of mind.

If you want reasonably accessible exposure to these concepts, Khan Academy videos are free, you don't have to sign up to watch, and can fill in some gaps:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
One of my cynical hypotheses is that, for videos that I'm rewatching for the nth time, the amount of energy/desire to interact is diminished (i.e. "vegging out"). Which is inversely proportional to the frequency that I'll click the "Skip Ad" buttons.
> 'supported browsers' are browsers that you lose customers if you don't support.

That's a great attitude towards your users. No, you, the vendor, adapt to what your users bring.

That is the standard that the web was built around. Lazy developers that only wish to cater to the one browser that they have on their desk and that refuse to recognize that the world is a bit larger than their minimal view (including screenreaders and other accessibility device) should get another job. And if the company they work at is run competently they will (Microsoft apparently is not one of those, but that's not really news either).
BMW is known to specify weird size tires where nothing else will fit in the space allowed. I don't know about this car, but in general I would expect that you have a limited choice in tires.
The article we're discussing is talking about BMW in the UK. Your link is to US-based consumer reports.

I wouldn't trust anything about BMW or other premium German brands from a US source as an EU customer, because:

1) US (and Canadian, Australian, Malaysian) fuel is of much lower quality, and BMW engines are notoriously sensitive to this. As an example, the BMW I own wasn't ever sold in North America or these other markets because of the high sulfur content in the fuel.

2) US consumers who buy BMW are going to have a selection bias towards people buying muscle cars. You're not just looking at reliability numbers, but numbers skewed by Americans who'd buy a foreign luxury vehicle with a powerful engine.

3) BMW is fickle about its maintenance requirements, and generally the further you get away from Germany the worse your quality of maintenance and ability to source genuine parts easily is going to be.

BMW is still pretty bad when it comes to total cost of ownership, but this German study of vehicles on EU roads shows it isn't quite that bad: https://europe.jdpower.com/de/press-releases/2019-germany-ve...
Lets have a law that makes it illegal to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity. Preferably very soon. The market will solve the question if renewable and battery combination is cheaper than nuclear.

The market wouldn't solve anything in that case, you'd have rolling blackouts and extremely expensive power until solar/wind/nuclear get spun up more.
I run a similar, albeit way smaller exhibit here in Vienna, and we are working on small instruction booklets we can give visitors who want to type things in and play with things .. perhaps I should make these available somehow when we're finished.

That said, its quite an adventure to return to that era of computing and re-discover all the old tricks. On some of these machines, there are even still new graphics modes and other features being uncovered by avid hackers. 8-bit machines are still alive!
It bumped up from 69 to 70 this morning, a "major" update so much as browsers have those anymore. But it's not clear what's actually new in this.

Here's what they listed for 70.0a1 back in July, but the release notes link for today's update is a dead end.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0a1/releasenotes/
And caucasians.
You might be interesting in "The Geek Atlas" by JGC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geek-Atlas-Places-Science-Technolog...
If you want to diversify in a non correlated assets, you can put a part of your money from stocks into commodities, like gold/silver/Bitcoin (housing market is highly correlated with the stock market, so it's not a good diversification).

All asset (and storage) types have their advantages / problems, you should read about it of course.
Nothing was ever propping smoking up. We've been smoking for literally thousands of years, long before any notion of formal marketing. Nor was it killed by some sort of marketing campaign. A large part of what happened was we had a generation grow up with ubiquitous electronic devices. You see a cascade of similar social effects such as declines in teen pregnancy, declines in violence, and a wide array of other phenomena all on the same timeframe (also alongside declines in fertility, testosterone, increases in obesity, increases in mental illness, etc).

You can even see this phenomena in practice by looking at the reverse -- quite a handy tool for measuring the soundness of an argument. In many parts of the developing world there have been similar bans on advertising and you also have plain-packaged cigarette cases with absolutely disgusting examples of what can happen if you smoke, such as people with facial disfigurations from oral cancer. Some countries have even seen extremes such as cigarettes being literally blurred out on television and push back against media that contains such to begin with. But again, negligible effects. Large part of the reason being nothing's replaced it as a past time. Bring in the zombifying pale glow of our digital screens and it'll get dropped like a bad habit.

Another counter-example to this would be things such as 'D.A.R.E.' It was a decades long well funded government program that tried to reduce drug usage through 'marketing.' It ended up having a paradoxical effect and increased various forms of drug usage.
Easy to say, but apparently harder to respond with any substance. Not unlike your unsupported claims of zero sum status to begin with-- stated but not supported by any decent argumentation.
> awful and fundamentally flawed

Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not.

> nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue

Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.
What? I've been using Facebook in Firefox since IE6 stopped being cool, and it's always worked fine.
So the Certified Kubernetes Admin?
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right, now if he spends $1B per year, he only has money for the next 80 years, and will run out when he's 190, that would suck.
Another fun thing to note is that because they have delisted the addon users may also struggle to work out what is going on, which really goes against the whole "let's update this critical security preference" thing.

If they had left us listed but only with older versions we could have at least left a message in the addon description telling people about the issue and how to manually revert the preference for people who care. And obviously we would have done so if asked.
Mr. Buffet pledged 80% of estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with many, many other wealthy people for the betterment of mankind.

By all accounts, The Gates Foundation is delivering on their promise by reducing child mortality, womens rights, life expectency, health care and education to the underprivileged of the world.

Heist indeed. <sarcasm>

Sauce: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/
I strongly considered getting a Fairphone, but the reviews for the last one made it feel like an early prototype. And then there was the lack of Android updates.

The only decent alternative to my iPhone still seems to be a Nokia dumbphone.
Yeah, abject outcasts sponsored by black hands from America and the UK.
Perhaps the main difference is that on Earth, the surface area with good illumination and air is essentially free (compared to the Moon).

My guess is that instead of a big field, it's much better to have some solar panels to collect the sunlight, transform it into electricity and use the electricity in LEDs. So your cultivation are can be a cube or semi sphere or other geometric shape with high volume to surface ratio.
I think it’s ok not to want to contribute to building tools of war.
Because many of them created their market space years ago and are now so established that it's difficult for a competitor to stage a worthwhile effort to draw revenue away from them. Because they have so much money available to them they can even afford to deal with a challenger by dropping their prices/rates lower than that competitor, operating at a loss for however long it would take for that competitor to die off, and then go back to business as usual(the "Walmart" strategy).
The other way of looking at this is how much Methane is removed from the atmosphere every year vs how much is added. In that context, many continuing sources of emissions have negligible net impact year to year.

This is why Methane concentrations where basically flat from 1998 to 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane Methane does however turn into CO2, but represents a small percentage of overall CO2 emissions.
Disagree. I like the way this system stops submitters giving their potentially half-baked opinions on articles, and adds an element of mystery to things.
Considerations of ruthenium from an undeclared major nuclear release in 2017
It's a one car household. He's probably going back to something that has a more practical form factor i.e. another 4-door station wagon (a 4dr hatch is a small station wagon, change my mind) of similar footprint. The i3 is heavily optimized to be a city commuter car. It's not optimized to be a multi-tool

Or his wife (page isn't loading anymore but IIRC he used a bunch of language implying he has a >1 person household) has one in the oven and they're doing what every upper middle class couple does when that happens, buying a crossover.
You don’t need a hack. I do it all of the time.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16015548/tool-for-sendin...
I was looking once at Python and Redis and how numbers get stored. I remember Python would in the end send Redis some strings. I dove pretty deep and found that Python floats when turned into a string and then back are exactly the same float.

I remember even writing a program that tested every possible floating point number (must have only been 32 bit). I think I used ctypes and interpreted every binary combination of 32 bits as a float, turned it into a string, then back and checked equality. A lot of them were NaN.
What do you mean that you can't zoom?

Do you mean you can't zoom the image or do you mean you can't zoom the site?

And on what combination of device, os, and browser can you not zoom the image/site?

On Firefox on Linux on my laptop I can ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the site, or right-click on the image and select `view image` from the context-sensitive menu which opens the image in another tab and from there the cursor becomes a magnifying glass.
So, never thought about that, Infact since it is not available where I am, never saw the logo before. How we came about it is via the font Plaster (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Plaster , check the S)
On reading up on this, it seems Derrida particularly is quite influential in Continental Philosophy, but in contrast his influence in the Anglophone world is mainly in literary studies. So us Anglophones see, understand and in some cases apply his work in very different ways than is prevalent in France.
I just checked. The "up next" column seems pretty relevant. I probably wouldn't watch the Area 51 video or the "what did we find when we searched pennies" but they weren't awful ideas

https://imgur.com/kG0uUDt

(And that Navier-Stokes video was very good!)
Because RICO doesn't work that way - period. The drugs provided were clean and of the specified doses and they never ordered any capital crimes. Thus nothing to RICO chain for overdoses or secondary effects.

The felony murder rule has some messed up assignment of responsibility (fair enough for eggshell patients and causing dangerous situations but dead accomplices or absolving reckless use of force by pinning it on the felon are problematic) but it also isn't one of the enumerated crimes.
A Global Currency Is Too Big to Succeed
50 miles a day is 25 miles each way. At Freeway speeds that is a half hour commute. It really isn't that unreasonable when put into that perspective.

There are lots of other reasons to think it is unreasonable, but from the perspective of someone who sees their trip to work as half an hour it doesn't seem bad.
Sure that is part of the solution. But when everyone is shouting for more housing in already densely-built cities, it's hard to tell everyone, move to somewhere where there's still more space (though that is happening to some degree, just by basic economic force).
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They already do that too,

At Harvard, the acceptance rate for legacy students is about 33%, compared with an overall acceptance rate of under 6%.

If you think they're discriminating in favour of low-income families I'm afraid you've fallen for a PR campaign. For all that the article talks about "the tireless efforts of places like the Harvard admissions office to change the face of elite society in America" their actions do not evince that.
I'm not implying Bill Gates is bad but he is performing a myth like Santa Claus. It is even better when you have twice the amount of Santa Claus money.

Bill Gates "When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are.It's life."
> the latest security update was this month

That doesn't include kernel security updates though, does it? What does "Vendor security patch level" say? Isn't that still stuck on 1 April 2018?
Amazon Holds Talks with Indonesian Ride-Hailing Startup Gojek
They're not ordering him to hand over cash they're ordering him to hand over half the BTC. The cash amount is just there to illustrate just how much 'value' that many coins would have.
I think they're almost done with the first iteration of WebSocket support in the Firefox DevTools. Might even already be in Developer Edition: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508
After 10-15yr the Tesla (or any EV) will probably need a battery. After 20yr it is basically a certainty.
But that's what the consumers must have wanted. It's "free" market after all. There's no way it can be manipulated. Completely logical, always responds the way it "should" market.
Same was said 20 years ago about Internet Explorer.

Even the arguments and counter-arguments are the same as 20 years ago. Users don't really have a choice anymore, they are quite often being manipulated (forced) to install Chrome.

Just browse the web with Firefox and go to Google sites.
This [1] seems to be the report including photos you are talking about. Not sure which image you linked here. Totally different story.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/328403/bmw-i3-vs-cadillac-cts-imp...
You expect owning an electric car to be different, yet Teslas also have the very systems you mention will wear out -- brakes, electric bits, etc -- making them comparably consumable to any ICE or hybrid, especially after 20 years of daily driving (like your CRV).

I would imagine any car heavily dependent on advanced sensors and electronics to cost more to maintain than traditional cars, especially after the first few years. And those parts will likely cost more than a muffler.
More units, less zoning? SF microapartments avoid “NIMByism”
Yeah, as always, context!
>As a bonus, many of the pots and pans I have will work on it.

Bit of a stretch to reframe limited compatibility as a 'bonus', dontcha think? Outside of induction hobs, the norm is for any pot/pan to work on any stove.
That's like comparing a car crash to an oil change, though.

Cleaning up after a disaster isn't the same as cleaning up a plant's stored waste.
That sounds to me like "I eat more to make up the calories when I'm not fasting".
Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad
Learning-Based Video Game Development in MLP UoM: An Overview
I'm inclined to agree, tossing in the poster's spin tends to drive the topic, often to odd places rather than the actual thing.

At the same time links to pages without any context as to why leaves me wondering why I should be looking at this page. Particularly product pages that are not easy to parse what the point is sometimes.
He is not making any macro statement about the economy. If anything it's a statement about large cap stock valuations. Warren Buffett likes to pick value-priced stocks, and there just aren't that many of them around anymore after 10 years of easy money. Especially if you look at large companies, most of which are priced to perfection. There may certainly still be bargains in the smaller company space, but those don't move the needle for a giant like Berkshire Hathaway.

Expensive stocks may be one sign of an upcoming crash, but they are by no means a sufficient condition. Stocks can stay expensive for many years, and the conditions that led to them being expensive (easy money) actually look like they'll be around for quite a while yet. There are other possible indicators like the inverted yield curve, but again, one can never say for sure. Oil prices for example are depressed, and that is not what is typically seen before a recession:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/oil-pr...
Edge did the right thing. I can't stand it when a product comes bundled with a bunch of bloat that I'll never use.
Many countries have maximum sentences. If a pile of money is big enough, someone might opt to spend 20 years in prison for it.