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Actually if your leisure activities and your work activities are similar, and you don’t have many interests outside engineering (or finance or law or whatever), then it is the prerogative of others to criticize your lack of well roundedness and insularity.
Well, that's exactly what i meant. Communist militias wanted to annihilate both anarchist and trotskyist militias, so those allied during the street battles of Barcelona. Are we not saying the same thing?
I do agree with you, whenever I meditate more often I sleep less. Also, I end up "gaining" time because I pay less attention to distractions/time wasters/procrastination.

However, in my experience it takes years before you may comfortably spend all day meditating. I'm pretty sure most of meditators, teachers or otherwise, are not able to do this. It's extremely demanding, it is only boring if you don't focus properly.

I've participated in retreats that start at 2h30AM and end at 00H00 every day, with 1h sits and 20m breaks in between (same routine over 3-7 weeks), and only a handful of people are able to follow this schedule. Even meditation "only" on a 9-5 schedule is hard.
Those snowplow workers will likely be employees, not contractors. The Canadian government really frowns on avoidance of payroll taxes.

But due to Medicare etc, it's not that big of a deal whether a worker is a contractor or employee.
Han unification is a bit of a mess, but you can fix it with lang attributes or the equivalent ("Language" selection in office document formats, for example). You don't need to fake things with a custom font.
Something of an open secret to be honest, how it now arrogates to pretend to still be "Left"-leaning but is nothing of the sort

I can always spot a political extremist when they claim that something clearly left-wing is actually (secretly!) right wing, or vice versa. It shows their sense of perspective has clearly left them.
Whether die-hard or steamroll-thru is the better option depends more on what exactly goes wrong rather than what the application is. For a flight control computer, for example, if the ordered pitch suddenly becomes 3.402823466e+38 degrees it might be better to die hard and restart rather than try to execute the order.
Having been a close reader of The Guardian over many years I'd very much agree with your observations.

It still has the shimmer of a left-leaning paper on soft social issues, but on many matters of significance it's clearly being used to influence left-leaning voters towards an acceptance of a right-wing, authoritarian, security-state worldview (the irony being it keeps up a pretence of the reverse when covering Trump etc).

The article itself was an outstanding deep dive into the history of The Guardian investigative reporting, appeared to reveal behind-the-scenes information I wasn't aware of, such as the effective disbanding The Guardian's veteran investigate reporting team.
I followed the Guardian's reporting on Corbyn. It was clearly aiming to damage him on the basis of very flimsy evidence. I worked on this page compiling a list of Guardian articles showing the extent the Guardian had gone to to paint Corbyn and Labour as antisemitic. https://theguardian.fivefilters.org/antisemitism/

Now if the charges were true, you'd think it would continue to be a problem, especially now that a general election is getting so much closer. As Media Lens pointed out recently, it seems the media has lost interest in that particular attack: https://twitter.com/medialens/status/1169157686300217345 - which would suggest there wasn't much to it in the first place.
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The reason this works is that the safety margins accumulate. You have a safety margin on:

* the loading on the bridge, which can be higher than the calculated amount.

* the resistance of the materials used, that can be lower than the requested amount.

* the quality of the soil,

* the lifespan of the bridge,

* ...

So the loading can be 25% percent higher, the materials can be 25% worse, the soil can be 25% worse, the lifespan can be 25% higher, ... and at the end you get a bridge that would still work if everything fails with a margin of 25%.

If the loads are 30% higher, the bridge might or might not fail. Who knows. Even though there are many other safety factors, and the bridge probably won't fail, it was not designed for that. There might be a critical part somewhere that has a resistance that's 25% worse than what it should be, and it therefore can only support a 25% overload, and with 30% that part might fail.

Bridges are designed to fail very slowly, loudly, and visibly, to avoid loss of functionality (e.g. when a bridge start to fail, this becomes obvious, and you still have months or years to sanitize the bridge).

I expect airplanes to have much tighter safety margins (<15% or <10%). The loads are more accurately known, the materials are higher quality, everything passes more extensive quality assurance tests, weight is much more important and companies are willing to pay prime prices on materials, manufacturing, etc. to reduce it, etc.

Safety margins aren't chosen arbitrarily. The job of a safety margin is to quantify an uncertainty, and with enough money thrown at each one, most of the uncertainties can be quite precisely quantified. Then it's the job of the designer to say "This plane should be in service for 50 years", and from the uncertainties and statistical analysis you can compute the highest load that the plane will receive in those 50 years with a certain quantified margin of error, and continue the design using that.
The employees have to buy and maintain the vehicles themselves, doesn't really absolve Uber from being a transportation company, after all, they make transportation happen on their platform as their main business effort.
The article is deeply biased in trying to make a point.
Nothing in the article actually clears the Labour Party (as opposed to their supporters).

An "independent inquiry" that they commissioned has all the weight of every other "independent inquiry" that has ever been commission, ie none.

That few members of party have been investigated (by the party) is one of the problems that people are complaining about.
I would not use Google voice. I'm not sure, but I doubt Google controls the major component in the international mechanism responsible for routing telephone calls. I would expect that they outsource some of the mechanisms to 3rd parties.
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The dis- prefix just means "not". https://www.etymonline.com/word/dis-
We keep keys safe at home in the closet or under the mattress. We take our phones everywhere. Such a policy would be a usability nightmare.

Even if someone's phone is locked and useless, you could steal it, dispose of it, and cause a lot of grief.
I would like to try that - but it looks like the last issue was in January?
> the economic and immigration crises,

Yes, nobody cares. Clearly, you've never heard about Brexit. Europe and immigration might have played a little role in that debate.

Or the rise of populism in Germany, France, the Netherlands and other countries.

Immigration is obviously such a non-issue that the AfD or the Front National (don't know the current name off the top of my head - they renamed) have absolutely capsized in recent elections.
> EU certainly has good marketing.

Surely you're kidding? The EU historically has terrible problems in transparency, effective communication of policies and general reputation problems because of the distance between it and its citizens. They have terrible marketing, famously so.
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Most powerful? - see http://www.goldenengineering.com/
Portable x-ray applications often use a caesium chloride source, more
practical, not so safe. Nice project. I bought a used dental x-ray head from ebay. It produced from memory around 90kV for about 40 seconds before I needed to turn it off (heat dissipation). Interesting for thicker pieces of steel is around 350kV...
If it works remotely similar to how fake self-employment works in germany then as a freelancer it's sufficient to show that you work for more than 1 company. If you exclusively work for 1 company, AND ONLY THAT COMPANY, as a freelancer in germany, you and the company you work for are at risk.
I cannot believe that its acceptable to cover main content with that useless social media buttons.
this content is basically unreadable
https://postimg.cc/hX5TmSbD
That's not infinite scroll. That's just a large page.
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Also Tether is special case - it’s not unrelated altcoin, it’s supposedly stablecoin bound to BTC.

“Supposedly” because no proper audit of tether assets and liabilities was done and there is little transparency.

Counterargument is that if tether is insolvent, it would affect Bitcoin but only to some degree.

Here’s the logic: if tether was printed without backing to buy and prop up price of bitcoin then somewhere somebody is sitting on a pile of USDT which they will want to get rid of. You can get rid of USDT by asking tether to buy them back from you for USD or you can trade them on the market for BTC. Assuming tether goes dark USDT owners will be forced to sell USDT at discount creating even more buy pressure for BTC. The whole thing will be a huge debacle and incur some damage to BTC but ultimately it’ll be perceived like one more exchange scams - not your keys not your Bitcoin, trusting that USDT can keep USD parity is purely on you.

Bottom line is - people are being manipulated, not Bitcoin. Bitcoin will continue to live up to its promise - distributed open ledger and transaction platform, solving consensus problem via proof of work and there will only ever be 21 million of them.
Europe has always been a stage for centuries of savage, vicious warfare. This culminated in WW2 after which they called off the game, realizing that the next war could wipe them out.
The article says Labour doesn't have an anti-semitism problem and therefore it doesn't?

And yes, I checked the references, and they are not wholly convincing. A statement that only 0.06% of the Labour membership have been investigated for anti-semitism (which firstly still seems kind of high to me, and secondly obviously not being investigated for anti-semitism does not mean one is not anti-semitic) and an independent inquiry by the person who was subsequently made Labour's shadow attorney general?

I'm not saying Labour is overrun by anti-semitism but let's try not to just believe the last thing we read, ok?
Does this just affect gig companies? What about other major tech companies that use thousands of contractors? What happens when they are contracted through an intermediary company?
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n=1, may I introduce a different n=1?
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I just replaced the battery on my iPhone 6s [purchased in 2017]. Performance is snappy, and the new battery lasts an entire day of use without charging.
One would argue the subject is more specific. Not "Social Media", but specific companies that decided to play fast and loose with dangers that have been known for decades.

Surely propaganda existed long before Social Media.
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The abundance of cookie warnings is a sign of the sorry state of the Web, not of bureaucrats gone wild.
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The US has had quite a bit of migration in it since a man landed on the moon.
poor birds!
A4, GP’s view of paper is only what’s native to GP apparently.

As already established by sibling comment to yours, 8.5 x 11 is very close to 4:3.

A4 is 297mm x 210mm which is very very close to √2.
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Yes, what you said is completely true. I am not saying that Apple is evil, I personally own Apple products and I think they're great (but overpriced). I just wanted to point out the length some people go just to have Apple in their pockets. Apple is not evil, but they know what they're doing, and they know that the prestige of their products is used by people to try and neutralize the sense of worthlessness they feel inside.
This manipulation is even more evident now that they are selling phones that are almost identical to the previous generation, bring nothing substantially new to the table, if not new smokes and mirrors. I'm sure that in their headquarters, they now spend less and less time innovating and more and more time refining their selling skills.
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I think the article's author made two points -- one quite sensible and the other very much subject to the criticism you raise.

I thought the useful point was, "In recent decades antitrust law has shifted to consider only the impact on a narrow swath of society (the direct customers of the accused antitrust violator)."

Aside from that though, I agree with your criticism of modern liberalism.
> Proliferation of monopolies, privacy scandals and elections meddling are primary examples of how great it’s going. Not to mention your companies are basically demanding tax breaks to actually pay tax at all.

All of these can be found in EU, the same regulatory capture, retarded copyright laws pushed by media industry, blatant nepotism (German officials lobbying for Gazprom, Deutsche Bank bribing Russian officials buying deals by giving good positions to Russian officials' children while evading taxes) etc.

The only difference is that IT is a scorched field in EU, so no regulatory capture in this domain.
The EU is terrible in many ways. But all the big infrastructure project they fund with prominent EU branding (this bridge/airport/tunnel was kindly funded by the EU) as well as consumer initiatives like the roaming rules are all excellent marketing.
To me infinite scroll or not is more about what kind of content is it, statistics like generated clicks and of course UX, than the questions what's more difficult to implement.

With the abundance of ready to use opensource solutions, I'm sure most devs don't need to implement infinite scroll or a pagination mechanism themselves but they just use a component that does it out of the box and solves all those technical problems for them.

To be sure what works best for your users and type of content, I would do two versions, one with pagination and one with infinite scroll and let the numbers decide which technique makes the user click / visit content and maybe which technique does the user spend most time on the website.

I'm not totally against infinite scroll, for a social network news feed I think it's a good use case. Also all the potential problems listed have a solution and also some of the problems also exist when using a pagination. For example letting a user bookmark a page url with a pagenumber on a website with lots of new content is bad, as the content on the page number XY will have changed after few hours / days. Some good solutions if you really want to implement it on your own are listed in this google blog post: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-se...
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oh bad deal for the 40yo man then..

I applaud your approach to sales, very empathetic. Are you still working there ?
Czar meas emperor, so the highest authority. Not sure why czar and not emperor though.
Sounds like it is aiming to be the car equivalent of the smart feature phone (see "The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones"[0]). Definitely think there could be a big market for this sort of thing in some countries.

Although more of a niche in the UK at least, we did have the G-Whiz[0] which cost less than this. Even though production was stopped in 2012, I used to see several regularly where I live until relatively recently.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20562695

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVAi
That kinda ruins the main utility of the system for most people. People aren't switching service providers often or SIM sizes at all these days (the latter especially with larger SIMs just being the same nanoSIM but with an adapter of sorts around it).

For the average person, the best utility of it is being able to retain your number on losing your device. Usually you aren't expecting to lose your device, so imagine how much more complicated everything gets when not only do you have to worry about getting a new one unexpectedly, but then also have to get a new number, inform everyone you know about that, and then update all your accounts.

All of that just to protect people from being targeted by fraud that is not only very unlikely to happen to them unless they're well known, but is also better resolved by making authentication systems smarter.
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This is exactly the case for me too, I love my 6S+. My only problem is that the battery is starting to die. Now I would just replace the battery and stick with it but some years ago I dropped the phone and the screen shattered.

You can't see the cracks in normal head on operation and there are no usage issues but I think it would mean that I'd have to have the screen replaced to replace the battery. At some point this is not economically good sense.

I can easily afford an new iPhone every year but I want a headphone socket for use with Rosetta Stone. When I use my headphones wirelessly with it it switches to a headset profile (with an annoying beep) and the sound quality drop to that of a headset before it switch back to audio profile (with another annoying beep).

Apple's solutions things like audio in the new iPhones seems half baked. Using a 3.5mm headphone lead with the same Bose QC35s everything works perfectly with clear sound at all times.

Also FaceId won't work when sitting in the charging cubbyhole of my car, TouchId does.
There are a lot of "tankie" pro Corbyn Journalists working for the Guardian.
As a small aside, I'm always surprised to see that BBC is the most (?) common go-to source for run-of-the-mill non-technology news here at HN. If you think the Guardian is compromised as a neutral source, then let's talk about the Beeb sometime.
Generalising, of course, but a lot of people don’t really care. Yes, the discontent is slowly growing, but it’s still small minorities that really oppose EU. All of western Europe (aside from the UK) have pro-EU governments at the moment.
Sure, you could have a national "reality" TV show, everybody who lost their SIM has to go on the TV show for six months with it showing on screen which number they claim is theirs - so this way there's no chance they're a crook.

Or make anyone who claims they lost their SIM wrestle a bear first before they get a replacement. Won't see many crooks take that on.

But, I put it to you that this all seems very disproportionate when you remember that you're punishing the phone company and its customers for not securing Twitter. These are the wrong people!
> but the 2nd gen Apple Pencil can’t hold charge for very long

Sounds like you’ve got a defective battery, mine and other commenters here don’t have that issue.

Besides, doesn’t it get like almost an hour of usage after an absurdly short charge of like a minute?
"I'm pleased to announce that Twitter is becoming a part of the Alphabet family for $X", where $X is a bit more or less than the current value.
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> I also guarantee he could have gotten health insurance, he just did not feel comfortable paying the roughly $1,000 to $2,000 per month it would have cost because his business pipeline was not full of work consistently.

I don't think it's abnormal not to want to pay those rates.

$1,000+ a month is absolutely insane for health insurance and at $2,000 a month you're now beyond the cost of most rent for something that you'll hopefully never need to use for decades, but more importantly you have no options. It's either pay massive fees (+ copays, etc.) due to no real competition or go without insurance. For the last few years no insurance also came with paying thousands upon thousands of dollars a year in fines too.

I am an uninsured freelance worker too for reference. But that plan definitely wouldn't work out if I had a family to insure, and then the costs are astronomical to the point where you would be in debt and have no savings unless you were absolutely crushing it.
The cool thing now is that you can have a brand new 2019 phone with the latest tech for 300/400 euros. So if you want to keep the pace, you can do it without selling your soul. I think it's more about the temporary sense of worthiness that an Apple product can give you.
More than myself I am concerned when POTUS is hit. Imagine seeing bunch of tweets showing up at 4am announcing to everyone that USA is in process of launching nukes against Russia right at this moment. By the time the whole thing is explained as a hack-in, Russia may be sending their nukes this way and for a darn good reason, because no country takes nukes threats against them as a joke or "you know perhaps they were hacked so let's go sleep". This is more serious than my little 15,000 followers twitter handle.
I agree. Given that I do not like C++ and try to avoid it at all costs, it is unfair to say it does not have any advantage:

- It is available on a very wide range of platforms

- Several implementations are available

- It is updated regularly

- Etc.
The control one is the main one here.
I agree. GDPR is taken seriously, and there has been massive changes for better privacy as a result. It's not a facade.
I'm well aware of that and don't use my phone number for security-related tasks when I can. My operator or the authorities (with IMSI-catchers, also available to criminals) could gain control of it at any time after all.
From the comments it does not look like necessary everyone is aware of this.

You should have a look at things like adonisjs.com to get a better comparison. I am not saying node-based tech is better or worse, but to dismiss all nodejs server side and say Rails is better at everything is not a healthy attitude, especially regarding the shaky history of the Ruby language itself (eg. The whole RubySpec thing).

And; how can node be inferior in every way when it isn't even the same kind of entity? It seems you are barking up the wrong tree.

It is a testament to how successful Rails is when it is hard to distinguish it from the programming language it runs on. Congrats to them.
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I have a question for you.
When you recreated the account on facebook, did you got your old timeline back?
And if so, did they try to fill the missing year with photos you were in that were uploaded to their servers or some other information they picked on you while you were gone?
(I closed my account 7 years ago and I'm curious to know what happens)
It’s what we’ve decided is acceptable as a society.

It’s not obvious if you call it “minimum wage” vs say “maximum jobs” (like how we have a cap for doctors). Both achieve the same thing, both are standard policies we’ve adopted.
In which way exactly? Having worked with many, many different package managers, I've come to appreciate Maven's way of doing things. Even though it has many drawbacks:

- XML structure is verbose

- Plugin architecture makes standard behaviour opaque

- Default HTTP with no package signatures is recipe for security problems

- "Stages" seem arbitrary and it's not always clear which stages are performed.

- Community seems to move to newer systems such as Gradle (and SBT for Scala).

But, there are also strengths. The configuration format can be extended easily using the plugin architecture. This provides a huge opportunity to extend the functionality.

It is battle hardened over time, which means it is very stable and it has a huge plugin architecture.