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Genocide isn't just murdering people, it's any organized effort to remove people or their culture. So throwing people in jail until they give up their beliefs is genocide. You should learn the definition before you try and tell people what they can't say.

EDIT: For anyone downvoting me, here's what the UN considers genocide:

The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to "bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.
You're, perhaps unintentionally, doing a bait-and-switch argument. Sure, communicating about the availability of a product is important; in fact, it's crucial for functioning of a market. But this is not what marketing, or advertising in particular, is about in the real world. It's not what people mean by these words.

I wrote about it some time ago at length[0]; skim the list and tell me how any of that - all of which is common practice and what you get to work on if you become a marketer - how any of that can be justified on the grounds of just "communicating about the availability of a product"?

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[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
Batching deliveries could result in massive energy savings. Right now, Amazon's vans tend to hop around neighborhoods (at least that's what their delivery tracker shows me). If deliveries were batched, the delivery density would be much higher, reducing the distance a single vehicle would have to travel to empty a full load of packages.
Swiss here

I pay for Netflix
I can't legally subscribe to HBO, Showtime, etc

Hence, i download anything not on Netflix. Legally. Because i live in a country which is ruled by its people and not its corporations.
I'm not asking for double blind control studies.

I'm just asking anything to provide evidence. Well rounded arguments with lots of accurate and well thought out examples (i.e. statistics, objective trends, etc) maybe books or theories supported by certain segments of the social sciences, etc.

Same goes for your statement:
> our current climate of discourse doesn't enable a true honest dialog* we are edging close to no other choice. (censorhip)

Can you please tell me why this time it is so different than say the election between Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine? I'm truly interested in hearing the concrete reasons for censorship being the 'no other choice' option.

Again, not saying anyone is wrong, just interested to hear how much of what is stated is based on subjective truth vs objective truths.
I didn’t use any numbers at all. Perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment.
You really have to be careful what you check to install or enable when using antivirus software. I think Windows 10 does a pretty good job without any extra software, but there are people that still torrent movies and open EXE files from whatever website they access. Sometimes teenagers or older people. Who knows what they are putting on their computer, and I imagine a lot of it is able to bypass standard AV products.
>the amount of things that happened to allow homo sapiens to evolve is staggering

Yes.. but.. one perspective is it's only so staggering if we look at it in the frame of "Look at all the things that had to happen in order for us to specifically develop"

If you remove what we consider "us" from this equation, I'm not sure it's all that staggering. Well, it is of course, but maybe not really. With the absolute insane amount of time that has passed and all the matter everywhere interactive, there is so much going on that I'm not sure it's much of a wonder that something happened.

By something, I suppose I mean the very beginnings of what we call life. And where it goes from there is just an absolutely infinite number of possibilities. But we somehow look at just ourselves and think "wow look at all the stuff that had to happen to make me" but there are an infinite number of ways that "me" could have been.

I'm not sure I'm explaining it all that well... I suppose my point is over so much time it's not so surprising that something happened. We are just one possibility in billions, so there are so many ways the entire of our planet could have played out.. or not at all. And it's the same all throughout the universe.

Speaking of which, does anyone have any articles or books on what other similarly intelligent life could actually be like? I try to think, what if we were intelligent sea creatures. Would we have been able to do as much being mostly confined to water.. would we have been able to come up with basic technologies to get out of the water and harvest resources, or maybe we would have just found ways to mainly use resources found in water. But could we have developed enough technology? What if we were shaped completely differently, is there something about our form that has been efficiently evolved over time, or are there countless other sizes/shapes that would have allowed us to be at the state we are now.

I've really always thought that any intelligent life on other planets would probably be so ridiculously foreign it would probably scare the shit out of us. There's no reason to think they have the same "emotions". That's just an evolutionary trait to our planet. Would they have humor? The same sense of happiness and sadness? I don't see why a brain would naturally evolve in a similar way given a completely different set of evolution, although I have no knowledge in this area.

Well thanks for the existential crisis.
Where are all these spare kidneys coming from then?
Unload while you can I guess, right?

How many US cities/states/landlords no longer allow their properties to be used for Airbnb?
Can I dump my trash on your lawn?
So, no, then? There's nothing in any of these links to support the claim that there is "CCP spyware" on the phones.

In fact at least two of your articles are about them putting spyware on iPhones, which undercuts your point further.
They specifically stated that this access would only be between 6AM and 6PM MST or "Normal Business hours". Not seeing anything that's allowing them outside of these hours.
When it comes to healthcare: Avoid red states, and states who were up until very recently “purple”.
They want to get ahead of the negative news and avoid We work debacle. Unfortunately, 2020 is not a great year for IPOs with the impending recession.
Consider this: shipping is free for you. Sending more trucks to deliver packages many times per day is annoying for you, but it's expensive for Amazon.

That's a huge incentive to do that as rarely as possible.
There are two major ways that happens. In growing populations of cells, they are diluted as the cells grow and divide, and there is ongoing recycling of proteins in the cell. Some are more labile (likely to be grabbed by the recycling machinery) than others, but it's an ongoing background process.
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It is a completely ridiculous breathless review of a phone that matches a Pixel or Huawei from 1-2 years ago.
Bear in mind that solar capacity and actually fulfilling electricity demand from that capacity are two very different things. The capacity factor of solar is between 20-30% as compared to >50% for fossil fuels and >90% for nuclear [1].

Hydrogen powered aircraft are hypothesized, but require lightweight hydrogen vessels. Maritime vessels can only be feasibly powered by nuclear power. The energy density of batteries is orders of magnitude less than fossil fuels, and sail boats cannot feasibly fulfill demand for shipping. There's a very strong aversion to nuclear energy, so we'll probably be burning fossil fuels in ships for a long time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Capacity_facto...
FTS is fine for so many applications. Many many business cases are solved by elastic search in a couple of days with no need to use ML.
I guess I'm of the mindset that if you'd still be doing it even if no one paid you then it isn't work.
Because some very rich people control a whole bunch of it, and they're very, very good at getting their way.
That doesn't make their reviews advertisements.
Note the population figure for Atlanta though: 501,178. They're only counting cameras and people within the city limits, not the area that most people broadly call "Atlanta".
What about the strain on the environment from sourcing and disposing batteries for these vans?
> A subsidy is the government forcing more resources to be allocated to something than people with money think is good. An externality is when we believe that outcomes are affecting people who weren't the buyer/seller.

In common speech "subsidize" is frequently used in the context of people being made to involuntarily bear externalities.

For example, people who live in areas with a lot of truck traffic often complain that they are being forced to "subsidize" trucking due to the damage to their local roads. What they mean is that they are being forced to bear the externality of excessive road damage, not that they are literally writing a check to the trucking company.
I don't know about total vindication. They may have had all the right things on paper (TBD), but someone could easily have easily been killed and I imagine their SOP will change after this.
So... English has a lot of metaphor-based idioms.

As copyright infringement is a matter of law, the literal legal context is the only one that matters.

I have seen a lot of people desperately trying to make a moral equivalence between theft and copyright infringement on the basis of dictionaries and thesauruses, and it just doesn't fly as an argument.

When you copy something, you are not dispossessing the current owner. The only reasonable way to translate theft into the world of intangible goods is as "plagiarism" or "counterfeiting".
> This is highly dependent on not much changing. For example, even widening integers from 32-64bit but would break a lot of software.

As Apple designs their own silicon and calling convention, they were able to pull this off for the S3 → S4 transition (the latter of which is AArch64 running with ILP32).
The ones that can will regardless.

We could waste people's time considerably less than we currently do, but it would require a sober look at what people are capable of and tracking them into vocational training that matches their abilities much earlier than we do, rather than sticking our fingers in our ears and singing "lalala everyone should go to college."
"blew up" and "rant" implied more than intended; The team reacted really positively to the feedback and adjusted accordingly; The team became really healthy at preemptively pairing and parallelizing work, but - to your point adding personalized fun to the standup.
Aw, right. I'd forgotten about IPC::Open3. Because I did not want to think about it, mostly (and so, I usually do exactly what you say people do :-) )
Lots of consumer routers these days let you set parental controls. Disable access entirely, or put time limits on it, then remove all the allowed times.
I agree with you. I feel a like optimizing metrics often leads to an overall worse product, but which, thanks to the actions of a minority of users who respond strongly to the change (while the rest grumble but don't change their behaviour much), gives the impression of having achieved an improvement.
hi Matt :))) congrats!!!
Gifts in kind aren’t subsidies? If the government gives equipment or resources or labor, rather than money, it’s no longer a subsidy? That sure doesn’t fit how I understand the term. What would you call those?
This contains some tidbits I've not previously read elsewhere, including this:
Boeing agreed to rebate Southwest $1 million for every MAX it bought, if the FAA required level-D simulator training for the carrier’s pilots.

And yet however unlikely that would have been, it had the effect of pressuring all change decisions that could potentially cause such a requirement. It actually brings an airline, perhaps not just South West, into the culture that culminated in the ensuing debacle. They are part of the problem.

I also better understand the motive behind why they chose to use only one sensor? Complexity means less likely to keep this feature a secret, literally, from the FAA, from the FOM, from training, from unions, from pilots, and maybe even the airlines. The more complex the system, the more it'll have to account for contradictory inputs, and a likely requirement of an in-cockpit indicator to notify pilots of the contradiction/confusion, and that necessarily leads to pilot training. Ironically, more redundancy in this case would lead to the very think Boeing and at least one airline, were explicitly trying to avoid. And so they did avoid it.

This article mentions US Air 427. The FDR in that case proves the pilots made a mistake, they pulled back on the yoke the entire time, aggravating the stall, making recovery impossible. Of course then as now, Boeing blamed pilots, that much is consistent. What aggravates me is this "3rd world" pilot excuse making b.s. when U.S. pilots have fallen into the exact same trap. Air France 447, one of the pilots was pulling back on the yoke the entire time. This is not a "3rd world" pilot problem. It is not an "airmanship" problem like Langewiesche recently argued. It's really a panic management problem with our lizard brain.

Flights 427, 610, and 302 all start with an airplane defect that then turns the airplane into a saboteur. With perfect information a pilot could have saved those flights, but the fact they didn't have perfect information doesn't mean their mistake is the biggest mistake. If a human being took the action these airplanes took, we would call them malevolent, and had everyone survived, the instigating person would be imprisoned.
I was at a local restaurant a while back and ordered the "Impossible Meatball Sub" -- thinking it was some massive, overly-filled submarine that I'd never finish (call me nieve).

Quite honestly, I was beyond angry to learn (literally halfway through my meal) that it was actually an alternative meat substitute. I didn't finish it.

If restaurants are designating menu items as "vegan friendly" and "gluten-free" then they should indicate the items that are made with meat substitutes masquerading as real meat. Maybe others do, but this restaurant did not.

I'm skeptical of these products and I really felt duped after ordering and eating some of it when, if I knew ahead of time, I'd have never put that product into my body.

Hmm, end rant I suppose! :)
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> I couldn’t finish it. Any wisdom the book may have was lost to me, and I’ll likely never pick up the book again, I associate it with too much PTSD from that time in my life...

I have that problem with a few unfortunately good albums, but never would have thought that might apply to someone with a book.
They could, and they do.

That said, they don't have infinite time, and if, as in this case, the upstream fix would: (1) be pretty involved and (2) be very likely to get regressed because upstream doesn't have the capability to run tests that would prevent that (e.g. because upstream only runs C++ compilation tests and there is no way to exercise the relevant bugs via C++ code), then investing in fixing upstream may not be the right tradeoff.

In theory, one could first change upstream's test harness to allow Rust code, but that involves upstream tests depending on the Rust compiler frontend, which apart from being a technical problem is probably a political one.

Maybe it would have been possible to do upstream tests via bitcode source instead of Rust or C++; I don't know about LLVM to say offhand. But in either case this is not as easy as just "fix a simple upstream bug"...
DSL/Telephone copper line has physical limits to the bandwidth it can provide. It can't do anything close to gigabit and plummets very quickly with distance from the telco box.
It's more than "anti-tech sentiment" - in many cases, it's darkly hinting that democidal totalitarianism would be a good idea. (Or at least that the extreme left deserves a fortieth or fiftieth chance to implement all its ideas, and maybe they won't produce democidal totalitarian regimes this time.) And it's everywhere now, not just on HN.
As much as I like F-Droid, it really needs some improvements to be considered a competitor to the Google Play Store. First and foremost, they need a system where you can rate and review the apps.
> I personally don't find cameras like these troubling.

It’s interesting to hear this difference. Here in Germany there are often cases where the courts forbid fake cameras because they "create an atmosphere of surveillance".
That's pronbably because Tesla has an impressive record of overstating how safe their cars are. Notice how this is the first Tesla car to qualify for Top Safety Pick+? That's not because the Model S wasn't tested, it's because it didn't qualify - and Tesla went ahead and claimed it was the safest car on the market based on a dubious interpretation of the much more limited NHTSA tests which was rejected by the NHTSA themselves.
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Importantly, in this story it's confirmed that the pen testers were carrying documentation and phone numbers of people in the State department who could (and did) confirm their stories.

When this story first broke, there was speculation that, "this is why you carry a get out of jail free card." But if this story is true, the testers did everything right, and the deputy just decided to jail them anyway.
Government takes money from business = tax

Government gives money to business = subsidy

The oil industry is the first one even if depreciation allowances are involved in the tax calculation.
Push notifications require an intermediary server between the app service provider and the device push provider, that's GCM.

Your phone has a persistent connection to it so that the GCM can "notify" your device when you receive a push.

The alternative is to have a custom Android OS linked to your own push provider and then convincing app server developers to send pushes to that instead.

Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, it's hard to get away from.
I wouldn't worry much about China refusing to export things for money.
They are pressured to do this, if the US wasn't so dickish about it they would just release a certified Android.
Which is going to happen regardless.

What would you rather they consume, an internal combustion engine that spits out a deadly exhaust or an electric vehicle that uses power, presumably from a nuclear or less toxic fuel source?
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A fair number, but this often doesn't stop people from ignoring this rule, listing their properties under hidden addresses etc. I would say 90%+ of the AirBnBs I've stayed at are in buildings that have banned them (especially in large cities, like Toronto)
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As you suggest, NYC is intensively and effectively surveilled by the NYPD. The first bit of Steven Rambam’s talk at HOPE 2016 covers this in detail, starting around 3:30:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHwl6AyL6js
So does any of that have to do with Huawei? Or is it just an OS that Huawei happens to use was included in an indiscriminate attack?
There is an issue for that: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878
The biggest carbon emitter is the individual collective. There's nothing wrong with your concept and I don't think it's controversial at that level, but it sure creates dissension when we try and figure out what exactly "requiring people to clean up after themselves" means...
Part of the issue is the people collecting the 10 cent bottles have dumped out the rest of the trash in a hunt for 10c and a possible meal.
PR and advertising are not the same thing. Seeding review units to product reviewers is part of effective PR for consumer electronics. It isn't advertising, though. Standard practice (at least among Apple reviewers) is for the devices to be returned after some period of time.
I went to “word camp” Boston a couple years ago, although I’m not a wordpress user. The keynote was on “Gutenberg” there new in place content editor. Wordpress is is keenly aware of the Wix/squarespace etc competition.

It’s the laser focus of a proprietary platform vs open source. Since wix and company are now adding market places and other functionality to there core it should be interesting.

I think they’re moving in the right direction, but it’s hard with all the legacy cruft. I’m in the process of learning WP modules (my goal is to move an open studios over as a plug in)
I am actually pretty skeptical of financial rewards, I think after a certain point they are far better at attracting the wrong type of person.

Of course, that leaves us with the question of how to attract productive innovators. I don't know. I'd probably lean toward some combination of restrained capitalism + massive subsidies to talented technical people + prizes for innovation.
It's not only about allowing customers to pay for their share of ad revenue in order to remove it the ads. But to also enter new markets of customers.

For example I would never subscribe to a service with ads, regardless of price. The Hulu tier that includes ads would have to pay me about $30/mo before I would consider switching from the ad free tier.

The number might be unrelated to ad revenue at all and they figured that was the perfect threshold between capturing the highest number of "cheaper" subscribers while also maximizing new ad-free subscribers.
This is a very poorly worded comment. I had to read it multiple times to get your point: Gas plants that run continuously (combined-cycle) have much higher efficiencies than peaker plants, so solar+peaker can have a lower efficiency than combined-cycle gas plants on their own.

I have a few questions about this. How do combined-cycle plants adjust to changes in demand? Do we need to compare solar+peaker to combined-cycle+peaker to have a fair comparison? Or do combined-cycle plants allow for lower changes in output than peakers, such that (e.g.) a 10% solar 90% combined-cycle system could adjust as well? The grid is a whole system, not just two power plants.

Finally, nobody is advocating for just solar+peaker. Solar+wind+peaker will easily get you over the 32% threshold, as solar and wind tend to provide power at different times (not perfectly, sadly). If you have some storage available (preferably hydro, but possibly other), then you get an even higher effective capacity factor.
you are exactly right, but when people have bad ideas lodged in their heads, it's difficult to dislodge them.
whats the carbon footprint of producing a single van?
My wife does not work. She wouldn't have made enough to pay for childcare anyway, plus this is what she really wanted to do in the first place (homeschool the kids). We also moved to a cheaper city where the cost of living is more affordable. We don't live in an expensive house, cars are used and payed for. You can make it work, but there are trade-offs.

I will also mention: we have 5 kids. Oldest now in college, youngest in 4th grade.
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I... I don't know.

I have never read this book. Ironically, I have read and enjoyed many books from PragProg. But this one always struck me as a "fufu" book, written around giving advice that one can independently reason and acquire during one's career.

Am I wrong? Is this book worth reading if you already have many years of experience under your belt?
When I'm traveling, I make almost all calls from wifi, so the "from" doesn't matter. (And I can already call home for free.) This would help in calling to other numbers in the same location.
Man sells ‘worthless’ Navajo blanket for $1.5M (2017)