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I've experienced the same thing before.

First of all, there's often a subtle difference in the questions despite being flagged as duplicate. And pretty much as soon as it's flagged, other people are all to eager to use their vote close power, taking a disproportionate amount of energy to try to convince them otherwise. Frankly, the few times I've tried it feels like trying to argue with someone that thinks the earth is flat or the moon landings were faked.

Secondly, sometimes I like answering questions. It's a form of teaching, which is really a form of learning, and writing a good answer gives me a chance to learn something in more depth in order to be able to explain it. I don't really care that a similar question has been answered before, I'm happy to focus on the subtle differences and specifics of this question and try to make a good answer.

However, too often your reward for this is a closed and then deleted question, which is kind of like a punch to the gut.
doesn't have a way to interact with the server (e.g. chat/feeds etc.) - which most sites need to have
You can't get "burner" SIMs in Australia (where I am), I don't think.

They usually require a sign up before activation; I'd be interested to know of ones that are true "burner" SIMs that are sold here.
> Your thermodynamic argument involves values that you take on faith (Atwater factors) which have been shown to have 50% variance, and values like BMR that also have 50% variance.

No, it really doesn't. Just look at the sibling comment that claims once again that it's possible to lose weight without a calorie deficit. That statement is wrong no matter how good or bad an approximation you have of what fraction of the heat of combustion is metabolisable.

If someone believes that they are losing weight while eating a diet whose nutrition labels indicate a much higher calorie count than their estimated calorie expenditures, then it's obviously wrong for them to claim that they are not running a calorie deficit. Instead, the reasonable and scientifically valid claim they could make would be that they are metabolising a much smaller portion of that diet than a normal person would, and thus they are running a calorie deficit because lots of calories pass through them unabsorbed.
A few thoughts:

1. Fasting may be a problem if you are so sick that you have insufficient fat reserves.

2. If you are seriously underfat, dropping to about 20% of your usual consumption gets a similar reaction from the body while being easier to take.

3. About 75-80% of your immune cells can be found in the gut. Hypothesis: One thing fasting may do is free up immune cells from coping with food so they can be redirected elsewhere.
Most businesses do not care about the technical details of the platforms they use. Look at adoption of the PSTN (centralized) & Email (federated and interoperable) among businesses, they migrate to where their customers are most reachable.
That's pretty cool! I'm also going through the graduate program. I'm two classes in and I'm taking two this semester. Any chance you'd want to grab coffee and talk about the program? I'd love to hear about your experiences and the project you presented.
We tried to use it this year but it got overloaded on the first day.
Can you summarize what does this do for you?
The simple solution is to not have multiple team members working on the same branch. Branches should be pretty ephemeral.
It’s Musk, playing stupid games for stupid prizes seems to be his favorite hobby.
Is the only takeaway that polymorphic design is good for extensibility? I mean, isn't that the whole point of polymorphism? But Linux's everything's a file design is great. Makes for a great user experience when you know all the knobs are under /sys on sysfs
anti-intellectualism is no more attractive coming from a computer scientist as it is from an armchair expert on climate change. If you have nothing useful to offer...
Yes, but people typically want addresses to be identifying to _somebody_ otherwise they're not actually all that useful.

If I am Alice and know Bob, I want to know Bob's address. Using the cell phone number, an address I already have for Bob, solves that problem. Verifying the number via SMS provides some reasonable (but not ironclad) guarantees that it actually is Bob.

Yes, as an address scheme, it prioritizes convenience over other things. If you want wide acceptance, that's a requirement. Wide acceptance can be useful if you need to adopt something in a hurry and you didn't think to set up something in advance. It's also great because it isn't exactly great opsec to look different from the crowd, and using Tor is a giant "HI I AM DOING CRIMES" beacon to the world.
In the mainland there are only a few messaging apps that work and they are all either unencrypted or backdoored
Surely the cost-benefit analysis of the fines would need to include the effect they have on the availability, loss, and/or destruction of the books.

If you are being sarcastic in order to make that point, that may be too subtle to communicate with most people that don't think of it on their own.
> Linux users currently have the lowest when using Chrome with 86%. I'm curious why this is.

This doesn't surprise me when you consider that package management over HTTP is considered ok since it's separately authenticated and verified is a very common view

That this view would also spread to not requiring HTTPS on documentation and other sites would also not be surprising

The Linux world really needs to get it's act together with providing confidentiality via SSL/TLS
You don't happen to have documented these at all by chance? I am particularly interested in NetBSD.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing!
Some features start as happy accidents.

ESR was the president of the OSI when it published the Open Source Definition and applied for the trademark. Justifying a weaker definition can’t be why he called it a feature.
In my experience this is only true for C/C++ (with a decent amount of work to setup CROSSTOOL properly). As soon as you start to get into Python, and Python<->C++ interop, it becomes very leaky.

I heard that Google has some tools internally that build the Python interpreter with Bazel and use that in order to guarantee hermeticity, but that doesn't seem to be possible with public tooling (at least not without some major hacks, for example https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4286 )

It would be interesting to see how Google manages languages such as Python at scale (and other languages that have similarly leaky package management).
China can't cut HK off from the internet. Almost all Chinese internet traffic is routed through Hong Kong, not the other way around.
> most people have a problem with listening on feedback

That is so true, even people giving negative feedback have trouble when they get negative feedback from someone else. Therefore I think the system, the site, should make it easier to give positive feedback, than negative.

To you know bring about a positive community feeling. The purpose of the site should be to help its users not to make oneself the over-arbiter of what is correct what is not.

Facebook has its share of problems but excessive unexplained down-votes is not one of them.
Hi everybody, I'm Jorge, founder of Bridgefy. Happy to answer any questions!
hong kong people are not chinese
Nobody said the downsides were over HTTP. When talking about state sponsored espionage, the glaring downside of HTTPS is PKI and buying into the CA model.
If your choice is between (1) get MongoDB support from AWS and (2) get MongoDB support direct from MongoDB, the fact that Security, Cloud engineering and Finance know AWS and how to work in their environment seems to be the obvious choice. The difference between (1) and (2) is probably minimal enough to make the existing relationship with AWS meaningful. I don’t know enough about the costs of the two, but it’s possible that the incremental cost for adding it to AWS was cheaper.
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Hi! You can skip the SMS verification step, which is how thousands of people have used it after earthquakes and hurricanes :) we also have an SDK so that developer can create their own app and make it work however they want.
No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better.

I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source serval mesh project apk and ios app. [1]

In Hong Kong given the density of building it's bit hard to have a line of sight, so it will still be hard to build a local network. But it's still possible to build a completely wireless network over the top of the buildings to communicate with each other.

This communications can be blocked, but then it will still work if enough people switch on their mobile phone and WiFi router to communicate with each other over peer to peer network which is a combination of wired and wireless. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

[1] http://www.servalproject.org/

[2] https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

[3] https://dat.foundation/

[4] http://subnodes.org/

[5] https://hyperboria.net/

[6] http://www.servalproject.org/
GDPR has little or nothing to do with citizenship. It focuses on presence in the EU, not on citizenship in the EU. See Article 3.

It applies to:

1. Processing that takes place in the context of processors and controllers that are in the Union, regardless of whether or not the processing itself takes place in the Union.

2. Processing the data of subjects who are in the Union by controllers or processors who are not in the Union if the processing is related to offering goods or services to such subjects in the Union or the processing is related to monitoring the behavior of such subjects that takes place in the Union.

One of the recital elaborates on offering goods or services to subjects in the Union, and that includes this:

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

I'd guess that HN would argue that they are not in the Union, so don't fall under #1, and not monitoring behavior, so don't fall under the second prong of #2, and that they did not envisage offering goods and services to people in the Union, getting them out of the first prong of #2.
> Space isn't the place to push technical boundaries

Fortunately space, for over half a century, has routinely been the place to push all manner of technical boundaries.
Basically anything text-based (messages, location, triggers), and as technologies improve, so will Bridgefy as it's protocol -agnostic :)
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My point is that those support functions' lack of understanding of realms outside of AWS shouldn't be the sole motivator for not using a technology.

What happens if a company that uses Software A has good motivation to use B, but their support functions don't understand B? Aren't the support functions supposed to improve by seeking to understand B, even at the initial inconvenience of time and resources?
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Trajectories have measurement errors.
You need something like decile transition probabilities, not merely directional changes. Going from the top decile of wealth to the second or third from top is not a significant loss of wealth. Even if “most rich people lost money” over their lifetimes, it would say nothing about how easy it is to go from rich to poor.

How many people who are born into the top decile of wealth end up below the poverty line in total assets + income?
> Scala is more commonly written in a functional and/or streaming/reactive stle.

This is the exact opposite of my experience. All the Scala I've seen "in the wild" is basically Java with a slightly different syntax. All OO, with the odd high-level function thrown in to prove something I guess.
Out of curiosity: is not this banned in order to prevent people from watching it and then repeating with someone else?
In that case the victim is every underage person.
Nobody is unaware that somebody is paying for it. The issues are more subtle than that.

Collecting and accounting for payment is overhead. If something is "free", then that overhead can be reduced or eliminated. On the other hand the basic purpose of charging for anything is to allocate limited resources, so the task is how to match supply and demand.

But saying it is "grossly inefficient" not to charge for something makes no sense to me. That's not the issue at all.
I'm not local to the Boston area but the next time I am in the area I would be happy to talk!
Ability to detect directional gaze is not unique to humans
Your little game theory puzzle actually just goes to show that 'intelligence' is mostly FUD.

There was a great article posted the other day on HN suggesting that MI5 had not, in it's entire history during the cold war, unearthed any concrete evidence of, or caught any, Russian spies (save for two instances uncovered incidentally by local police, and one who was a royal and hence never charged).

But none of that mattered. The appearance of subterfuge and counter, is much more important than any actual success. And as you suggested, there needn't have been any mole at all, for the events to play out exactly as they did.
So how much of the speed up is due to removing the unnecessary nested tables, how much is due to reducing the page weight, and how much due to the 'Utilitarian CSS'?

I know modern web dev (e.g. OOCSS) encourages lots of classes everywhere, but when you have a highly regular structure with many repeated elements (i.e. potentially hundreds per page on article pages), it really pays off to use descendent selectors instead of adding multiple classes to every element. Certainly in terms of page weight. I doubt rendering time would differ much.

A few other things you could do to reduce page weight:

- Remove any nested elements that are not absolutely necessary. e.g. why do you need the two nested divs inside each list item? Just set the paragraph margins. You don't need grid or flex either — it's just a plain list.

- Remove the inline SVG. Use <img src="arrow.svg">, or make it a background image on the link, so it is only downloaded once, instead of being inlined potentially hundreds of times. (220 bytes x 300 = 60 KB) If you must inline it, then optimise it: you can get it down to half the size.

- The inline onclick handlers on links should be added by an eventListener in the JS file instead of repeated on every link. You can use CSS attribute selectors to detect which type of link was clicked instead of adding different classes to the different link types.
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On one of the graphics they label https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) with "transhumanism = inhumanism". I'd expect most cyberpunk ideas to go the other way.

But yeah, otherwise it's pretty much anti-corp.
Why not just use Postgres, set a field as jsonb, done?
What about transgender women?
While I think there are several larger factual errors in your comment, it may not matter because it seems like we’re talking about totally different things.

> “I'm not just talking about total financial ruin, I'm talking about staying rich over multiple generations.”

I think the OP and my comments are all only talking about wealth outcomes over a single lifetime for a person born wealthy. AFAICT no part of this thread was about multi-generational wealth, and for multi-generational wealth I largely agree with your broader points.
To be fair, China doesn't block access to any websites in Hong Kong. In a sense, it's a freer internet than in the US (zero sites blocked, plus piracy is allowed).
DNT could have so easily been a protocol, instead its a sign that implores "Please don't feed the ducks"
Ask HN: How to make iOS more private and secure?
I’m looking for suggestions beyond the basic “use a password instead of a pin”, “use 2fa”, don’t connect to public WiFi”. I think I’ve got my iPhone setup pretty well, but I suspect I’m missing more than just a few things. Any suggestion is appreciated, I’m willing to at least try it.
If you look at the video about Google image labeler game, they list a few abuse protections. A single answer is never going to end up as a real data point, especially if you can get lots of them from different sources to validate.
Hi Jorge, fyi I just browsed for Bridgefy on google and clicked on the first link that showed up and some random page turned up. It looked like it was hacked or something.
Ironically, this website is generated with Hugo[1], a static site generator built with Go, a language created by Google. Jokes aside, it's good that they bring up this issue that affects their local community.

[1]https://gohugo.io
I imagine that some developer or team had to hide such useful features under the name of "table formatting" because they could not get the ideas through in their organization. Don't know but I imagine.
Yeah thanks I tried to clarify. That’s very relevant, that an AV company had to tell them and do everything in the first place.

If they don’t have the advanced skill set needed to shut them down they can always contract it until they develop
their own in-house experts.
Just tell the truth, and don't complain about your old boss or your former colleagues.
> Similar tools to what Davis found in Cooper's Ferry have also been found in northern Japan. Davis hypothesizes that that's where those early settlers came from.

> But to verify, he'll have to do a little more digging.

Portland Oregon and Sapporo have had a sister-city relationship for about sixty years. It would be an interesting coincidence if it turned out that their native inhabitants were more closely related than previously thought.
When I've tried trains in the US in the past, there were ridiculously bad delays pretty much every time, even for short trips. The consensus seems to be that they just aren't reliable due to right-of-way issues? If things have improved, I might have to give it another go at some point.
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Maybe a completely naive question: Insurance companies seem to be one of the main entities interested in tracking such people down, and are pretty big, regulated companies. Meanwhile, some of the "unlicensed investigators" interviewed in the article openly admit to doing illegal things in their investigations, like obtaining phone records by impersonating phone company employees. Seems a bit brazen. Are there enough intermediaries to somehow give the big companies plausible deniability? Or do police just not care to crack down on this arrangement?
The book mentioned in the article, “Playing Dead” is well worth a read.

I was surprised at to what lengths some people were willing to go to fake their own death as well as to why they did so.

It kind of gave me the same sensation as “it’d be fun to try and rob a bank to see if I could pull it off.”

...Not that I’m planning on doing either, if you’re reading this FBI / Life Insurance Agent.
Scooters are becoming a problem in cities that no one knows how to solve
The article says that the speed is a record, but besides 'supercar' (which is what?) it does not say for what kind of car on what kind of track for what distance. Can anyone here explain it to me?
It doesn't beg that question at all.

By that premise every space organization should shut down. Nothing should ever go up again. What if something went wrong? What if every mission wasn't perfect? What if someone lost control of a satellite or space station (eg Tiangong-1)? What if people died? (NASA, Soviet Space Program)
Air Force's mysterious X-37B spacecraft sets new record for time in space
Every deorbiting satellite passes through lower orbits. Many of them passively.
It's the exact same steps as the guide for FreeBSD [0] but you do it with a NetBSD install image instead.

I maintained an installer [1] for these systems a while ago but the images may not be available anymore, not sure.

[0] https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-d...

[1] https://github.com/eatonphil/linode_deploy_experimental
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I love SO. Believe I have been using it my entire career (10+ years). But even after all these years and all this experience I am hesitant to ask questions at SO. It can be quite terrifying.
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why is a backgroundcheck company the right sponsor for a deletion directory?
> With a team like that, Rambam says he has a near 100 percent effectiveness rate at finding people, usually within a few weeks of their death (although sometimes, unfortunately, it turns out that the people he’s looking for actually are dead). Even so, he says he’s never been stumped.

> “Some investigations have been pretty tedious,” he says. “Some have been time-consuming, but only because the person went to the trouble of going from one country to another multiple times. I’ve basically had to follow the trail of breadcrumbs, but it wasn’t cleverness that helped them hide. It was just that they were internationally mobile weasels to begin with. If you have resources, you can disappear for a certain amount of time. But no one can disappear forever.”

That sounds pretty bold. Could it be that he exaggerates the truth as advertisement for his service?
I like the coin-collector catch.

I used to bowl competitively, every bowler has a fairly unique and recognizable style. I always kind of figured this would be enough to catch me if I ever went on the lam. You could put a wig on someone, change facial hair, even plastic surgery-- there's no hiding the ball's delivery.
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Actually, you could perfectly well find answers in the pre-Internet times; you just had to dig deeper, grub through more books, talk to more colleagues, and experiment more.
TSVs aren't just numbers. A TSV might be numbers for the first terabyte, and then include a string, just for the heck of it.

I'd call that "dirtying numbers," rather than an removable header which allows you to programmatically validate that your numbers have not, in fact, been dirtied.
Perhaps you could share specific details on the use cases that dynamic symbol interposition is intended to serve? Because the only one I think I've seen so far is setbuf(1) and I can imagine more than a few alternatives that could have been considered.
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There are a lot of dead satellites passing through that altitude on their way to a fiery death.
This sounds like the quadrigacx exit scam
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You're absolutely right. Most software development will be impossible today without resources like SO.