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Horrible, horrible people who use untested products in vape liquids to increase their profit margins instead of simply producing a higher quality distillate. Oh, no, that would prevent them from making the absolute most money possible, which is the sole goal. Monsters. Horrible monsters.

And that is why capitalism, while obviously the best solution that we have come up with, needs to be regulated up the wazoo. I'm also looking at you, Apple.

People are lazy and unethical and they take shortcuts.

Including the writer of that article, who took the easy path to sensationalism instead of examining the real problem: lipoid pneumonia has appeared in vape users who inhaled only nicotine and glycerine.

The CDC (and the medical profession in general) does not even have a likely suspect at this point. The only meaningful statement in the entire article came from Michelle Peace, Ph.D., who says, "we still don’t have definitive clinical evidence that vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol, the more commonly accepted additives in vape liquids, are safe, let alone vitamin E acetate."

The rats are scurrying for the shadows because they know they did something wrong by using thickeners to make their shitty rip-off products look high quality.

A thoughtful article would perhaps examine the evidence in lipoid pneumonia cases, but it's easier and more sensational to go after the scumbags who, bless their little black hearts, may not turn out to be the cause of the problem after all.
“Move fast and break things” is a massive liability when it comes to financial law.
Does that make them wrong?
You make its use a criminal charge.
Financial rules (e.g. KYC) are very strict and Facebook could be in big trouble with regulators if it knowingly let European users hold currency.
I have had good results encoding/decoding the NTSC signal. You get crosstalk artifacts for “free”

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/125898/Opinion_CRT_Emula...
It is a small effect, what should raise alarms for the p-problems. But it is a very important effect, so if it is real, it is something to be very concerned about.
Sure, but the deal is that at very small numbers, a massive change in % difference doesn’t translate in to a massive difference. It’s _entirely_ dependent on context. The raw stats are meaningless.
Ask HN: What makes McMasterCarr industrial supply parts ecommerce website great?
You’re clearly speaking in generalities because the evidence is absolutely there that people can lose weight by exercising. But if you’re speaking in generalities then people basically don’t lose weight at all. The studies indicate that nearly no one keeps weight off long term.

If you restrict your sample to the select few that do keep off the weight, some do it with diet alone. Some do it with diet and exercise. Some very few do it with exercise alone. Any of these strategies can work. But in general, none of them do.
> that governments need to put some "guardrails" around engineers and the tech titans they serve

The evil engineers! Not the managers, CEOs and so on, but engineers. The true root of evil.

Finally someone recognizes who's really at fault </sarcasm>
I don't disagree, but this is an easy thing to say when you're a competitor of companies that would be hit much harder by that regulation.
Perhaps a better analogue would be a largely single- (or few-) threaded main processor with a truly astounding number of single-purpose coprocessors? I.e. physics units (motion vector approximation), graphics units (optical processing), management engines (parasympathetic nervous system) etc.
Not 2; that's a whole different beast that was not well received. Play Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, which is more or less v. 1.5, and widely considered to be the pinnacle of the series.

The original Supreme Commander is not bad as well and interesting if you want to see the storyline that Forged Alliance sprang from.
I'm not sure why you think this is so hard?

You pass a law. Most people don't break the law.

You make it illegal for banks to transfer to known Libra things. You audit people. You apply big fines.

Murder is illegal but that doesn't mean nobody can commit murder.
A friend and I used to keep in touch by playing RTS Vs the AI while chatting over the mike.

The AI in most games is utterly banal and predictible, and as soon as you go past the easy or medium settings it cheats ruthlessly. Of the big recent ones (StarCraft 2, Company of Heroes 2), it's been a very disappointing experience.

For SC2, it just keeps rushing you, so you end up turtling until the AI runs out of resources.

For CoH2, again it just constantly rushes you with much better stuff that you can afford. CoH2 is actually really annoying as you can never afford anything, and so don't get to play with different units, you're always seem to end up playing the same composition.

What this means is that every game is virtually the same, you're just trying to establish a line, wait until the computer runs out of something (or uses the artifical unit cap for stupid things, effectively running out of an army), and then you roll them.

The only game I remember with a little variance was Dawn of War 2.

Maybe co-op Vs AI is something they just don't care about, but it feels as if it's got worse over time, becoming extremely predictable.
If this is true these fines are unenforceable. Parking tickets/fines are allowed in UK law for breaking the rules on public land. Parking on private land is governed by contract law. For a contract to be legally binding it needs to consist of the elements of a contract: offer, acceptance, and consideration, i.e. payment. Which UK supermarket charges for parking?
Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a real-world compiler
Facebook has turned out to be a potential threat to free society. I’m not just talking about the mass manipulation that goes on mostly unregulated, but also the fact that it has quite a lot of personal information on our citizens.

Maybe that wouldn’t be an issue if Europe was the best of friends with America, but as that’s obviously not the case. I don’t think our relationship will fully deteriorate, but we can’t ignore the fact that we may have to prepare for a Europe which is less reliant on American tech companies.
This is more about idiots with too much money trying to remove anxiety over their kids future by spending five figures a year on preschool.

There are diminishing returns on this. The writer is part of an elite group of idiots who behave irrationally in the highly emotional situations around raising kids.
Just like the USSR wasn't communist.
Essentially, the financial network would not allow digital payments out of anything suspected of being a Libra -> local currency exchange, and running any sort of exchange would likely be verboten.

In the end, it doesn't really do much but slow things down for some users or add extra steps to the process of extracting value out of Libra as long as somewhere is willing to run a quasi-legal exchange. There is also the option to threaten Facebook/Libra with sanctions if accounts can be proven to have been made/facilitated for Citizens.

Another possibility is the requirement to maintain access to the blockchain for mining and analysis against other financial activity the respective governments have the capability to audit.

Hence is the danger of something like Libra combined with Nation State scale actors.

The common person on it may not see anything but addresses, but given enough out-of-band info, the potential for government use as surveillance (or any large organization really) is far too large.
Does it see the SDR as one satellite, or multiple? I guess you can just spoof as many satellites as you want, but wouldn't it be rather hard to spoof a position?
You tell Facebook that if a French national is offered Libra you will fine them. If they complain they don't have the tech to prevent that. You fine them anyway.

The theme here is that Facebook has lost the trust of too many important people, and maybe they just want to hurt what looks like another enormous American tech company that has been too careless and too aggressive.
In countries with real high speed rail, this is not the case. Tickets on Italian Freccia trains are comparable to US bus fares between major cities. Acela in the US is expensive because it competes with planes - and laughably slow by world standards (not much faster than trains ran on the same routes in the 1950s).
There are several mods floating around that improve this.

I recall a LAN party where we used two mods, one for the field of view (2x wider), and increased the unit cap (again, by 2x).

It made for some pretty epic (and laggy) games.
The hospital charged me $1,700 for 1.5mg of xanax during a 3-day stay. It's utterly ridiculous what they're allowed to get away with.
You read the article for free, friend.
"I don't care about his stance on politics but I think he should be shot in the head" is one hell of a take.
I'm sure that they keep spare guillotines around but I'm not sure that it would be a popular thing to punish random Louis libra user for his few hundres Euro transaction when Facebook is paying less in taxes than him, figuratively speaking.
I think the only suspects you can take off the list are oil-importing US client states and the LDCs of the global south. The unipolar moment is over, a Great Game is again afoot.
I dont know about Trump, but this makes some sense. Thanks.
My point is being efficient and wanting to be efficient or being obsessed with efficiency are not the same thing.

So while already "being more efficient at anything" is not bad, the idea of "being more efficient at anything" can be a very bad idea, downright to killing people...
But that’s not the point though. What is the _real_ difference between 98% and 99% in real world terms? How much colder will you feel? Will it dry out your skin faster? How much faster? It’s a difference against zero.
> Haven't looked at the details but cryptocurrency implies it stays on some distributed ladger and no 3rd parties have control over the transactions. Isn't that the case?

It's about time we all disabused ourselves of the libertarian utopian dream that just because cryptocurrency is on a distributed ledger than governments can't control it. "How do you stop people obtaining it and using it through their buddies on the internet" - quite simply, by telling them they'd go to jail, or get a hefty fine, for doing that.

Companies are even easier to control than people because their whole existence is made possible by laws and regulations of governments.
Alternatively, they should have worked with governments to make sure to address their worries before announcing it publicly.
tl;dr I just keep an eye on GPT-2-related news on Twitter.

I have no advance knowledge of any GPT-2 related happenings, which has become inconvenient as OpenAI likes to release things when I am on vacation. :P
> what WoW lacks right now is difficult solo content

This is what burned me out on it to begin with, and I'm still kinda there. Instead of providing interesting and difficult challenges, they introduced vast amounts of repetitive tediousness.

I seek out well-crafted tension and release in my entertainment, but I don't have a lot of free time. On a regular basis, I want to struggle somewhat and maybe need a few attempts to defeat a challenging scenario, then occasionally receive a nontrivial reward for it. It's not a complex formula, just one WoW doesn't provide. If they did, I would be more likely to consider a subscription.

Another aspect which could give the 'more challenging yet not too time intensive single player campaign' a better chance in the market is making minor tweaks to such campaigns so they're also playable by a couple. There are tons of couples who have played this game together over the years (probably most of whom have limited interest in coordinating lengthy raids with strangers in their limited free time). It seems to me like a win-win to provide them and solo players something interesting to do that doesn't require too much grinding.
Had they done this, they might have risked a full on ban on any monetization in those nations. The blue app has negative growth in those markets, and no surplus of goodwill.
I have heard that well fed cats are more active hunters.
But someone needs to grasp at straws and keep the idea that the only key to success is a college degree alive!
I thought Jeff Dean was the Chuck Norris of programming?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
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So truck drivers don't overnight at UK supermarkets? What do they do when they can't park at a truck stop and they're out of legal driving hours for the day?

Don't know, but certainly not that. Even the huge supermarkets with their spacious(for the UK) car parks are way too narrow for a large truck - the delivery entrance is usually elsewhere, you couldn't even make a turn with one in here - as an example, that's probably the largest supermarket with the largest amount of parking anywhere in my area - look at how small these intersections are, no way you would fit a truck here.

https://www.google.pl/maps/@55.0137268,-1.6641004,3a,75y,333...
Throw your insults at me, won't change the fact that their descriptions sound like there written by wework level scam artists (like you).
AFAIK, the Libra design is very centralized (which follows from the throughput requirements). All usage of it would be through Facebook's servers. So that would be where you can implement any censorship.
It's a multi-billion dollar real estate company, so one assumes they used in-house counsel or a law firm.
51 here - 40+ years coding - haven't had any issues with my age yet...
There's two different, but related, things going on:

1) Is regular, ordinary age discrimination. This is why tech companies won't hire people starting second careers into entry level programming roles.

2) The widespread notion that more than about 5 years programming experience is not valuable, maybe even counterproductive. (Firm specific knowledge is a different story, tech companies do value that.) Hence all the "senior" programmers with 3 years experience.

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The first one is illegal and in my opinion immoral. The second one to my mind an empirical question--it doesn't seem to be true based on my experiences and observations, but I'd be willing to have my mind changed by evidence.
Competition does not solve every problem on the planet. But it does solve a huge amount of problems, so it is very important to make sure that some regulation target at solving a single problem will not bring that huge amount of problems into the world as a side effect.

As a hint, when a large company asks for some regulation, it is very likely that it is of the kind that brings all those problems.
Walmart as a company is generally friendly to both truckers and "vandwellers" who use their lot for overnight parking. The only exceptions I've seen are smaller "neighborhood Walmart" locations and the occasional small town where the cops have nothing to do all night except harass overnight truckers and mobile home/van drivers.
Nope, it will physically fry the electronics (that's a directed antenna...), unless electronics are seriously MIL-SPEC, properly shielded, and such, which is beyond the capacity and level of sophistication of most terrorist groups. You probably can't defeat a manned aircraft or a RQ-4 like this, but some cheap drone assembled in a garage by Palestinians, Houthi or other KGB-sponsored group, easily.
Having worked in a few fields (never in development), my experience is that while it varies in quality, it is almost omnipresent.

In my 40s, now, and for a few reasons, looking at having to self-reinvent, again. Opportunity cost is very high and desired outcome uncertain from all preferred choices. While I try to remain positive and productive, I'd be dishonest if I didn't admit that I am scared that I will never again work in a mentally-engaged, fulfilling profession.
We can add :ragewq too
> Where else does this occur?

Event facilities (for weddings, etc.) often have established partners for various event services that you pay directly rather than through the facility, which you also rent.

Dance studios where the dance instructor is affiliated but not an employee of the studio (especially where the affiliation is non-exclusive) will sometimes (especially for private lessons rather than group classes) charge a floor fee which you will pay to the studio, while the instructor is paid directly.

Fairs, etc., often charge you a gate fee, while you pay for goods and services inside to vendors directly (which vendors are also paying the fair for the privilege of being there, too.)

Arguably, residential real estate leases without included utilities is a closer analogy than any of those: there are a number of non-optional service providers you pay separately, on top of paying the landlord to occupy the premises.
>> Apple doesn't cheat me on my privacy when I buy a machine.

Have you ever monitored all the telemetry Mac OS sends back to apple related domains?
If I am understanding the article right, this would have led to fewer pods per node and a higher overall cost, wouldn’t it have? The author claims that the extra headroom allowed per pod for spiky CPU usage helped absorb those spikes.
I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren’t the Hard Part
"invest a lot of money and get fined"
Largest ever polar expedition will soon be frozen in drifting sea ice
If Libra <=> Euro conversions are made illegal and fined, Libra won't be an option for the usual Facebook user. There might be a "black market" but the few people that would go through a black market are probably not the target audience of the currency.
I think employers discriminate against older people to their own detriment. We have a couple of people in their 50s in our tech team, as well as a broad spread in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. We very fortunate to have a fantastic team across the board, which very much includes our most experienced members.

Granted they tend to be more expensive, but older people have numerous advantages that deliver value which more than offsets the direct costs of salary and benefits:

- More experience (obviously!): not just in terms of work, but in terms of life

- This often means better social skills, and also greater resilience

- Experience means they're often just better at what they do than less experienced staff

- They tend to have family commitments, which means they want to work sane hours, which to me helps set a healthy cultural precedent

- They tend to know themselves well, and are often more settled/content; this can mean less political game playing and jockeying for position/trying to prove themselves. This isn't to suggest they lack ambition, although their priorities are often different, but they tend to be more graceful in trying to achieve their ambitions

- They seem less likely to burdened by an overdeveloped sense of entitlement

All of these are generalisations and there will, of course, be exceptions, but I think it's hard to argue against these characteristics as being more prevalent amongst older workers.

When it comes to tricky pastoral and technical situations, I often find myself leaning quite heavily on the wisdom of my older team members. I really wouldn't be without them[1].

[1] N.B., at 43 I'm no spring chicken myself.
Linux Kernel Address Space Isolation Still Baking to Limit Data Leaks
This is a disingenuous argument.

I work on some free software projects and most people don't even know who RMS is. There are multiple Free/Open Source software associations, projects and communities to choose, all with different people working on them, some of them don't tolerate such behavior.

If none of those fit, people can just create their own and choose who to associate with.
Europe has SEPA (Instant). The Chinese have WeChat Pay and similar? I'm curious, what other solutions other countries have?
> We had two young engineers (who are no longer with us now) discriminate against applicants for software development roles because of their age, religion, or origins. One of them is a google developer expert and he quite openly rejected people by discriminating against their age (anyone 40+) and beliefs. I didn’t want to veto the hiring decisions even though I could have because at the end of the day they’ll have to work with him.

I'm not sure that's a great reason to condone illegal discrimination.
> “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations”

What a bizarre statement. Providing for security is also inherent to sovereignty of nations, but private security firms flourish.

It's also odd in the context of Germany in particular where a private currency has been used for many years:

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

I suspect there's a lot more behind this statement than meets the eye:

Inflation, and the ability of the state to force it upon its citizenry by forbidding the use private money - has come to be viewed as inherent to the sovereignty of nations. The world's governments are now entering a new phase in which none can afford to hold the more valuable currency due to the damage caused to export business. Net importers like the US have been holdouts, but even it too will have to bow to reality.

This conflict means that, no matter how well intentioned, policy makers will be feel compelled to devalue their own currencies. It's a race to the bottom, but without a bottom. Alternatives, especially private alternatives readily available to citizens, will increasingly be viewed as the enemy.
> Haven't looked at the details but cryptocurrency implies it stays on some distributed ladger and no 3rd parties have control over the transactions. Isn't that the case?

Not quite, in the case of Libra. Only a handful of companies control the nodes. Which makes it relatively easy to enforce a ban.
FYI: I collect (awesome) articles about Libra incl. official posts and pro & contra. See https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-libra#articles
If you’re that far along in your career and are still in direct competition with very junior people, then yes, you had better differentiate yourself!

An employee is a seller of labor, and an employer is a buyer. To make the sale, the job seeker must demonstrate the strongest possible value. A lot of outside obligations or time otherwise required to be away from work, all else being equal, makes competitors look relatively more attractive.

Put yourself in the employer’s shoes. Say your toilet is backed up. I’ll assume you’re a homeowner responsible for getting it fixed and not a renter. The first thing you’d likely do is ask your friends to recommend a good plumber. Then you’ll start making phone calls. You probably don’t want someone still in trade school. The best plumber in town may be very expensive or unavailable for a couple of weeks. You have an urgent problem! You talk to another plumber with a reasonable rate but may have to pop in and out of the job on short notice. You need your toilet unstopped today, which means good rate, good reputation, can get there today, and who will stay until the job is done.
I still think it should be called Cancer, instead of Libra.