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Buying land owned by another country means diddly. All it takes is one politician or motivated company to declare the contract void, and that happening is merely a matter of time.

You’d need to buy it and split it off as a country and be prepared to defend it as such and pray that the locals are willing to be absorbed by your new government. The cost of that is several magnitudes larger than merely buying land.
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Also even if drafted after registration it was avoidable. You can be a conscientious objector. You can leave the country bc. in the us we don't check your Id when you leave, unlike China. You could go to Canada. And we don't draft people anymore but we do register them. There's a tiny tinge of comparison but it's not the same as holding your kids hostage if you are on the political outs.
Not really. At least not in the US. Deforestation is pretty heavily controlled.
A different time indeed. Really wasn't that long ago either.
It wasn't WhatsApp, it was Telegram. Check your sources and be careful when spreading misinformation.
Loading a song and using its samples is best to start out with IMO; not just beause it's easier, but because the instruments also tend to be "in tune" (relative to each other)
I remember liking TextMate back when I used macOS as a daily driver. Glad to see the project is still going. Wish there was a Linux port. :-/
For starters, I'll refer you to Sandstorm's own "how it works" page [1], which explains it quite well IMO. Basically, the Sandstorm modl works well for applications that consist of many small things -- documents, chat rooms, project boards, etc. -- each of which can easily run in a single process. Each grain can run in a self-contained process, with its live state being stored in memory, and using the filesystem for durability. When things happen within the grain, it can easily send out notifications to all connected clients, e.g. through WebSockets, because all clients are communicating with that one process (indirectly through a proxy, of course). Consider how much easier it is to implement real-time things, like chat and collaborative document editing, this way, compared to using message brokers, distributed pubsub systems, etc. As for scaling and high availability, as the page I linked explains, the platform takes care of that.

[1]: https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works
People are either already on a platform like GitHub, in which case there's an Issues product right there that can be used with much less friction, or they aren't but this idea of "sending a merge request" still feels like anachronism.

Joining mailing lists and configuring your SMTP client not to mangle patches seems like an art that everyone just decided to forget how to do.

(As an ex-maintainer of the Linux kernel I'm aware that they still do it there. Just.. mostly no-one else.)
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Not the parent, but i understand this as the paradigm that containers and VM´s use for instance.

Your applications and executables are also part of the data and move together with them.
Excellent point. It's horrible and needs to become regular court based but it's an exception, not the standard. I still hate that it happens in my country.
Wait a second, there was just a report put out by NASA that stated the world is become more green, specifically citing the Amazon Rain Forest as an area that’s more green than it was 20 years ago.

Something seems completely wrong here.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...
The US did the same thing with a lot of our natural resources in the past century. it does seem somewhat hypocritical to not let other countries do what we have previously done. What we did was wrong but it also allowed the US to grow to what it is today.
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience
Exactly and in the end the market does become rational, might take some time so coming back to Dominoes are you saying that the market has been irrational for 5 years?

> Private investors don’t care about the fundamentals.

Exactly which is why there was no point in talking about private valuation.
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If the device can't connect to the internet and therefore doesn't have tracking/etc, does it need to be FOSS?
The most interesting thing about this (compared to results from similar research/projects) is that in all of the examples, camera movement is forward and down relative to the original perspective. The results are really good, and some of that may be due to a superior algorithm, but it's also aided in large part by the choice of movement. Since objects lower in the frame tend to be closer (foreground elements), the downward camera movement causes those objects to occlude parts of the background above (and behind) them, meaning that a relatively small portion of the background needs to be inpainted by the algorithm. If too much is interpolated, visual artifacts often ruin the illusion.

The forward movement also helps in this case as those foreground objects grow in size (relative to the background) with time, so there's even less need for interpolation. If the movement were primarily lateral (or reversed relative to the original image), I imagine the algorithm would have a much harder time producing good results [1].

EDIT: After skimming the paper, it appears that the algorithm is automatically choosing these best-case virtual camera movements:

> This system provides a fully automatic solution where the start- and end-view of the virtual camera path are automatically determined so as to minimize the amount of disocclusion.

That is pretty impressive. I had originally assumed the paths were cherry-picked by humans, so it's cool that the paths themselves are automatically chosen (and that the algorithm matches the intuitive best-case scenario in most cases). It's still slightly misleading in terms of results because they mention that user-defined movements can be used instead, but of course, the results are likely to suffer significantly if the movement doesn't match the optimal path chosen by the algorithm.

[1] The last example shown in the full results video illustrates the issue with too much background interpolation in lateral movement: http://sniklaus.com/papers/kenburns-results
After getting stung 5+ times yesterday, not a fan of them. Apparently, they leave a scent encouraging further attacks. We just happened to be doing clean up near an undergrown hive.
I would agree if there weren't middlemen and regulations everywhere making this an enormous pain in the arse and making the costs nowhere near what they would be in an efficient market.

Uber only makes sense for infrequent journeys because you have to pay for:

- a relatively new car
- an actual driver and their labour costs
- profit margin for Uber.

Last year the TCO of my car was under a thousand pounds, not including fuel.

There is absolutely no way I could have rented my car for 3 GBP a day. It's just not happening, there's no profit in it. I couldn't rent it for a month for 100 GBP, or even a month for 200 GBP (100% markup).

I'm yet to see _any_ of these rental services that actually work out cheaper than doing it yourself except in specific scenarios like somewhere you'd have to pay for parking, or the specifically urban situation of using the car very occasionally because you could actually just cycle everywhere instead (e.g. London zone 2).
Maybe I'm a special case, but once in a while I'm working on a local branch somewhere that doesn't have internet access, like on the subway.

I feel this is directionally the same win as the offline capability of a VCS like Git itself. If we have it, we come to expect it. And if someone took it away for some reason, we'd have a better conception of just how useful it can be.
>but it would differ from old colonialism in the sense that the “steward” nation would not be exploiting the country it’s taken into its stewardship

If only it were that simple and some human beings weren't inherently bad people.
Yes? People don't drive a diesel truck outside my house. At least bit that I've commonly noticed (people moving in is an exception). Not packages: I see those dropped off every day.
I don't think DNSSEC is going to matter at all. Virtually no major tech companies have signed their domains.
Yemen has used drones for attacks on Saudi oil facilities before, but with no or limited effectiveness on targets. An earlier, Saturday, August 17, 2019 attack only 29 days ago on the Shaybah Oil Field approximately 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) from the northern boundary of the vast Saudi Empty Quarter, resulted in no injuries or reduction in Saudi oil production.

https://theaviationist.com/2019/09/15/everything-we-know-abo...
Pretty much and the US and its five eyes allies are the kings of soft power in espionage. Blaming people for hacking them while being the biggest hackers of them all, etc. The West is either oblivious or true believers. But really at the end of the day it's more or less the side that you are on that determines your truth, not the actual truth.

The issue then is that we thought China was on our side, then we discovered that not really they had their own ambitions which do not coincide with ours. And so we're slowing trying to take away as much power as we can from them so we can bring them under control. These pronouncements then are an attack on China's soft power as everyone is doing it anyway all the time.

It seems at the same time China is attempting to establish its own power structure while trying to negotiate with the West, look for instance at the moves it is making with Iran.
Also a report from NASA that the fires in the Amazon were only slightly higher than normal - less than the levels seen in 2010.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145498/uptick-in-am...
He's never done this while we're there. Only in the middle of the night. He wakes up, doesn't cry, and plays. Sometimes when we come in in the morning it's a literal shit show.
Every year is the year of the Linux Phone because Android exists :)
Music recommendations without collaborative filtering
Right, something seems very off with this journalism here.
I did a Show HN where I just put my website 38 days ago, either it was terrible then and it's terrible now, or I didn't explain anything. I should have really made a comment. The link is the comment, the reasons why I made the thing. It's hard to write about why you are spending all of your time doing something you intuitively feel needs to be done! I feel like people should just magically understand me. I mean I don't feel like that if I think about it, but I kinda feel like that.

I can't be the only one who can't stand being recommended music by machines. I love machines but goddammit, I tell them what to do, not the other way around. The thought of some matte-black server somewhere, blinking, dot-producting my vector with god knows whos other vectors, making sure all the songs have the same musicalness, or acousticness, or whatever, ugh. I don't like it. Probably a personal issue that I should get over.
The Git project still does mail-based patch sets! git originated via Linus for the linux kernel, so that's not super surprising.
It's a good expectation to include subtly in something that will be read by a variety of people. The Overton window on this won't be moved quickly, but it's nice to think that it might be moved...
Yes one may recognize him by the genitalia hanging from his chin.
This is one of the coolest, boldest concepts I ever saw, and put forth by an extremely capable programmer and human. I look forward to hearing more from Kenton in the future.
Hoping SH up-streamed a PR for the shift to .Net Core ... Looks like it's using Winforms... Would be interesting to see the .Net core port, and then shift from winforms to eto forms or something else cross platform.
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Make: Electronics by Charles Platt[1] is a good start followed by the author's own recommendation for further study, Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk[2].

[1]http://www.plattelectronics.com/books.html

[2]http://simonmonk.org/pefi4/
The second one in a row to promise the US would leave (three if you count terms). I look forward to the next one who promises the same, I'm sure it will be different!

Although I find the bipartisan and widespread media backlash that happens every time either tried to be revealing of the greater DC agenda as opposed to what they've found useful to say during campaigning.

It's a damned if you do type situation, which is a game politicians don't like playing. Kicking it down the road continues to be the standard political option. Not to mention the middle east will no doubt continue to have a never ending series of incidents to make that option easy to justify.
That article doesn't even mention the Amazon? Per the chart, Brazil's net change in leaf area since the 1990s is a fat 0%.

That said, I do wonder if replacing rainforest with soybeans counts as no change in leaf area.
The article doesn’t, however the study does. You can see it’s circled in the map along with China and India. Read the study.
They literally aren't prisoners in China, they just can't leave the country. They're free to do as they please in-country. You could easily say that's just an inconvenience too. But that means some people can't go back to their lives in the US, just like some people blocked by the US travel ban can't continue their lives as before. There are multiple ways that both exit and entry bans affect people in significant ways, and both for political reasons.
Nuke them from orbit.
Probably a DNS / dnssec / https configuration? And fwiw, doesn't happen to me.
I'm calling BS because there was no L3 cache in 1998, Pentium pro only had l2
I agree, it wasn't a coup.

Lula, who will soon answer for even more corruption charges, was judged by 3 tiers of Brazil's law system, including their "Supreme Court".

Just ask yourselves: why would the owner of Odebrecht, a company that had a revenue of 45 billion USD in 2018, confess under oath that his company had corrupt deals with Lula's party when Lula was the party leader?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39194395

The Intercept is only releasing small disconnected parts of the recordings that can be milked for clicks. They never released in full and don't plan to. Moro already asked The Intercept to release the conversations in full, in vain it seems.
So no land rights, just paying them to maintain a rainforest? That has nothing to do with (buying) property at all.

That kind of deal would have ridiculous rates for the opportunity cost, won't stop illegal deforestation or crimes through plausible deniability, and we'll still end up with an expensive military and political presence to oversee everything. Also many other countries will start to ransom environmental support for a paycheck.

I see nothing but negatives with this strategy. We can't just pay countries to change their behavior that easily.
Singapore is part of Asia, and has a majority ethnically Chinese population, what does the west have to do with this?
Why would you use this over using your own websockets convention. Also how does it handle mass connections? you would need redis or similar?
Exactly! Once you leave an online trail, its hard to undo.
Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer
Glassdoor is only useful when there are a significant amount of negative reviews for an employer. It means that the employer is bad, so bad that they don't care enough to pay a firm to pad their Glassdoor page with glowing reviews.
it was created in los angeles and all the legal documents still point to an office in los angeles.

and I doubt that if you search for #russia you will see videos about trump. When can we see a news article about how california censor tiktok?

edit: my point is that this is a fart-app. if you expect a modicum of newsworthy content, that is a problem already. this article is akin to crying because the jack-ass movie or hang-over-7 lacks political commentary.
> Consumers don't have 'contract support' unless they have cash.

So what do you propose then? Every website have a paywall and block poor people?
No, it isn't bounded by the access time of the last level in the hierarchy. You could miss in the TLB before you even get to the storage hierarchy. Your TLB miss may even require a page table walk with more misses. You could even get rescheduled because your quantum was exceeded.

You probably think this never happened but it used to always happen. The Linux scheduler used to traverse a linked list of pages (because Linus didn't know any better). Once the number of processes being scheduled exceeded something like 64, it slowed to a crawl consuming most of the quanta just rescheduling.
I'm not well versed on the specific implementation details of ST, but whatever the ST team does on macOS yields a result that is much closer to a native application than VSCode does through embedded Chromium. The difference in text rendering is particularly noticeable on a non-hidpi display.
I have a fair amount of wasps in my vicinity: mud daubers and paper wasps mostly it seems. They're very inquisitive
and curious but not necessarily belligerent. I've never had any problems with them so I generally leave them alone, though I do clean their nests off my house and shed.

*One of the coolest experiences of my life spent outside was watching a tarantula hawk and tarantula engage in mortal combat right in front of my friend and I as we were sitting and relaxing in a park.
Well, you're linking to Forbes, for starters. Even though it's a generally a terrible source of information, the article literally tells you in the headline that "NASA Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks To China, India"

It says nothing about the Amazon, which is being cut down and burned down by people. You can see the Amazon as the big tan/light green blob in northern South America in the image in the article. There is just about no net greening. Greening is delta in LAI. You can burn down a rain forest and have a bunch of grass in it's place and there will be no net greening, but on the net it will release a ton of CO2 and destroy the environment.
Corporations with professional legal counsel have more power than individual consumers.
> when they have a fraction of the resources and economy as China

You answered your own baffle, it's right there.

You know why the US didn't suffer painful sanctions for its Iraq invasion and debacle (which ~3/4+ of the world was overwhelmingly against)? Because the US-allied world runs the world, mostly, and the US was the world's only superpower both economically and militarily (throw in the global reserve currency for good measure).

China carries an increasingly big stick and a very aggressive attitude that it's their way or else (and they mean it). It's exactly the same reason Muslim countries won't do anything to them or say almost anything to them about Xinjiang; they're afraid of China and they know China does not respond to the normal stimulus / protest that democratic, human-rights-based nations do.

So Russia has the authoritarian, no-human-rights disregard aspect that China has, although to a slightly lesser extent (Putin's dictatorship is nowhere near as powerful or enduring as the CPC party dictatorship). The problem for Russia is that they're economically weak and backwards. They can be easily pushed around and contained economically. Russia is also a regional military power, China is about to be a global military power (certainly within ~20 years). What is Russia going to do, commit suicide by shutting off their energy exports? Are they going to shut down all their vast factories (which don't exist) and hammer the global economy? Are they going to lock down access to their technology & science? Are they going to further restrict their vast consumer market (which doesn't exist)? The best Russia can do is poke Europe with energy, tamper occasionally with the Middle East, and mess with Ukraine. Meanwhile China just went and annexed a country the size of France in Asia - stealing vast territory from numerous other countries through military force - in the South China Sea; nobody did anything to stop it or sanction China for it. Nobody will do anything about it, either. China is in a position now where they are able to play by different rules than everybody else, and there is nothing that anybody can or will do about it. That is going to get worse yet, their military power is nowhere close to peaking, so their projection and aggression will only increase for decades yet.
> Blaming people for hacking them while being the biggest hacker of them all

Uhh, what?
You forgot about Dre, I mean Snowden?
What no one wants to admit is that our modern way of life is totally unsustainable on any level. Plastic straw bans and the like help us feel like where at least trying, but it's all just band-aids on a gaping wound. Then corporations try and shift the blame to the consumer at the same time making us us dependent on their products as soon as we're born.
Wow thanks for the pointer to Eto.Forms - cross platform Windows Forms including Linux, OSX, and iOS (but not yet Android) is pretty awesome to hear about
There are options between "free for all" and "highly restricted to the point of public harm".

Another thing would be to expand the scope of nurse practitioners where it makes sense.
I had a similar experience at a major university in chemistry lab freshman year. The class required a subscription to a site that was owned by a professor. Everyone in the department used it. All the TA’s said they didn’t want to hear anyone complaining about a $25/semester subscription because they had to do it too. All the telemetry from the lab was taken with these machines that were also sold by the professor’s company (to the school). The lab reports were virtual. They involved answering questions on a web form that would have appeared dated in 1996. Every time you submitted an answer it checked the answer according to your recorded lab data. If you were “correct” it moved on and if not, it gave you a few more tries and then marked that question wrong. One slight recompense was that it would tell you the formula you should have been using to answer the question when you were wrong. There was no human oversight as evidenced by the time I answered the question correctly and it reported the wrong formula, an email to the TA went unanswered.

“Involuntary consumerism” as you say. I’m sure there are many examples. I just wanted to share another anecdote.
typical "the grass is greener on the other side"

"quants" is a term by MBAs to describe how they are replaceable by having this name you can apply interchangeably to anyone, just like "programmers" .
Do you think there's any mainframe lessons that don't exist in today's cloud architecture that could actually be applied (obviously software, not hardware)?
Of course, that's silly. Good C# can run at near-native speed given all the work happening in the runtime/JITter, etc.

The keyword being "near". It's like all the "Java is fast" articles out there --- in theory, you can write microbenchmarks that show your language is fast, but in practice, everyone knows what it's really like.

Of course if you have a powerful enough CPU and enough RAM you could emulate any system at a decent speed with any language[1], but I'm willing to bet that if you ran this C# emulator on the best hardware from ~2000 (which is roughly when the first PSX emulators appeared), and compared it to the (native) ones that were around at that time, you'll see a huge difference in performance. I remember a 1GHz Pentium III with 256MB of RAM would've been sufficient for those.

[1] The same "fast enough" justification being used to praise writing applications in JavaScript and bundling them with an entire web browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Java vs. JavaScript: (Senior) Amazon Tech Recruiters Can’t Tell the Difference?
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Not everyone wants synthetic pesticides or GMOs in their food.
Deforestation of 20-25% or more is not uncommon at smaller scales and I know of no such example where such an area transformed to savanna.