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Half of the the things you cite are not core components of european societies. France has historically implemented colbertism, Germany is ordoliberal, both things which are at odds with free markets. Limited govt has never been a thing in Europe, e.g. most european countries have a government-run social system including healthcare. Personal responsibility is a major rift between american liberals (in its actual meaning) and european liberals, since europe mostly defends a positive enforcement of liberties, while the US goes the other way.

Promoting your ideas as "western civ" in order to give them polish is an unfounded appeal to authority. The fact that Europe succeeded despite not sharing your views shows why this appeal is wrong.

Please keep your internal politics at home, and don't get us involved.
No wonder why there are so many rogue IoT devices and botnets. This kind of behavior from the TV manufacturers needs to stop.

Stop making everything connected, or at least make it work properly without Internet access, and stop connecting devices at any cost.
There is a legend from the time of my Uncle's tenure at the US DOJ. During the Clinton administration, he hired so-called hackers he met at DEF CON to conduct a pen test of an immigration processing center somewhere around New England. The hackers were given some form of "get out of jail free card" for use during the pen test. In spite of it, they were arrested anyway by the overzealous administrator of the center. My uncle's group in the DOJ had a hard time getting those hackers out of jail, and when they finally came out, they were quite mad, since the whole fiasco had put their permanent records at risk of a bad mark. The pen test project was still on, and it seems they went to extra lengths to exact their revenge on that overzealous administrator. As proof of their total compromise of the immigration processing center, the then Attorney General Janet Reno received in the mail from a green card for a Kang G. Roo. Subsequently, said administrator was demoted and reassigned to some cold desolate part of Alaska. (So the story goes, anyway.)

Edit: The "reassignment" may have led to an almost-immediate resignation.
And that's kind of weird. I could see Washington having heavy surveillance, for security. But Atlanta and San Diego? What's up with that?
Stripe is cool -- I use it every day -- but is it really worth, oh, half a Goldman Sachs?

I dunno man.
That depends on location. There is a lot of cheap land in the US but much of it is far away from population centers.
The average game on Steam sells 32000 copies. It takes some seriously poluting developer to offset the picnic of thousands of people.

Also (pedantic but you started it), the society we currently live in is based around work. So if games weren't being developed it is more likely the developers would still travel to work.
No. Unauthorized access or disclosure can happen when someone with legitimate access to the system gets access to more data than they should see. For example, a patient logs on to the system to view their own record and sees records for other patients. Logs would show this, and this would have to be disclosed.

Deliberate penetration of the system, or purposeful exfiltration of the data, are very different occurences.
> The embassies actively sprayed in offices, as well as inside and outside diplomatic residences — sometimes five times more frequently than usual. Many times, spraying operations were carried out every two weeks, according to embassy records.

This suggests that in fact it was the US government (following the host government's lead) that introduced the toxin into their environment. If so, it seems like the Cubans may be owed an apology.

But did the embassy use stronger concentration than Cuba? Or a different agent? Are any local Havanans experiencing these symptoms?
Whats with companies constantly throwing people in the trenches and forcing them to be in constant maintanence mode all the time? I feel like they are just asking for burnout and turnover. If its that bad, give it to someone to greenfield some painful part of it rather than spend their life on the hamster wheel.
Good point, I think it's even more complicated though.

Consider not only how many cameras there are and where, but also to what level of detail they are able to see, who has access to what they see, and as mentioned elsewhere ITT, the other systems that they are connected to.

e.g. a grainy CCTV cam in a convenience store is a single camera, as is one in a Gorgon Stare surveillance plane, but those do not generate equivalent amounts of surveillance.
LMAO

I just... I can't.
Agreed. Plugins make it flexible and extensible, and if you use too many of them you're an idiot. Attack surface is a problem everything has, so that's not even valid, and considering you can only use the plugins you need, WP has a smaller attack surface. Live changes? I'm sorry, it's Wordpress's fault you don't have a dev environment?

Themes, yes, that's valid, they can be constraining. So is buying the wrong type of automobile. Deal with it.
Confirmation bias. If the "multiple women" spans decades, you're probably actively looking for the hits and not looking at the misses. He's socially awkward so probably a lot of the "hits" are probably misinterpreting him.
I am thinking of Linux
If this were the case, why do the vast majority of mobile phone networks around the world continue to use and even buy more from Huawei?
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What exactly is the roadmap for Airbnb? They stays feature seems to have maxed out in listings and declining now that random people are trying to manage 15+ listings in many cities. I often see the same listings on Booking for cheaper too.

All the other features I don't even look at because I'm not interested in an 'adventure' given by some random guy with no professional experience.

Honestly surprised they haven't expanded at all within the stays experience.

PASS
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I agree with you, but I'd also argue the very act of "unleashing" can in fact multiply that negative sentiment in individuals where it would otherwise stay relatively tame.

For example, I saw a mini-documentary recently about people who may have harbored what I'll call "questioning/prejudiced" views, but then fell down the YouTube rabbit-hole of full on racist/Nazi/white-supremacist videos and turned into full-on racist conspiracy theorists.
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You’re lucky it’s intuitive for you. I think it’s valuable to have credible sources backing up my intuition because I’ve worked in orgs that document way too much and way too little. So just calling out a desire for just right documentation (with copious examples) is handy to me so that people don’t idealize no doc systems or spend half their time documenting.
Or maybe they're just playing the victim.
For once, mighty Amazon comes late to the show.

Germany's parcel service DHL builds up a fleet of small electric delivery vans since 2014:

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

Living in Bavaria, I see these drive around everywhere now.
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Tldr: It's a low loss nonlinear optical component, reducing the loss by a factor of 2.
There is also the idea of gravity pistons which claim to have the advantage of a much wider allowance of siting options than pumped hydro.

https://heindl-energy.com/

Nice long-form discussion with the Omega Tau podcast:

http://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/

Also this: (don't know if there is any association)

http://www.gravitypower.net/technology-gravity-power-energy-...
> make Teslas more likely to crash than other vehicles

Citation needed. Which other vehicles? Tesla's overall safety record is quite good. Every car has things it does well and things it does badly, and every other manufacturer gets judged on the safety record on balance.

I mean, do you regularly post on HN about, I dunno, Toyota's safety record given the high center of gravity of its SUV offerings that make them "more likely to roll over than other vehicles" and claim that "crash safety features take a back page" to that problem?
Counterfactual reasoning can be tricky. We do want electric vehicles to be manufactured instead of other kinds of vehicles, and they won't be if nobody buys them. So, maybe you're doing your bit to make sure they're successful, versus less efficient vehicles? If you buy used then you're accepting other people's decisions about which new cars should be successful.

On the other hand, maybe you're thinking the total number of cars to be manufactured should go down, and this will happen if people stop buying them.
Now app developers have a big incentive to avoid Google Play Services and run on open-source Android. That lets them run on Google, Huawei, and F-Droid platforms.

Time for a dev forum on migrating away from Google Play Services.
I'm very hesitant to blame the two individuals. While you should have basic understanding of the legal circumstances when working this job, you should be able to trust your higher ups that the paperwork is legit and thorough. A company the size of coalfire certainly has dedicated personnel just for dealing with that.
At this point Avast is way worse than the malware it claims to protect you from. I've been running Windows for years now with just Microsoft's built-in malware protection and it's fine.
I immediately thought "yea I'm gonna keep using neovim" when I read about spacevim.
But my point is, I'm sure I can find something if I looked hard enough. Probably even worse as what Richard Stallman did isn't THAT bad.
Perceived "easy win" for conviction rate due to a fundamental lack of understanding of the issue. This backfired hilariously.
Huawei is communications mega corp owned and controlled by a communist dictatorship. The free market cannot keep us safe from all. At least activist investors can make some changes to private corps in the west.
"cd -" is equal to "cd $OLDPWD", so that still works with my function ;)

Though yours looks much nicer ^^"
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You give them the money, and they'll spend it on blackjack and hookers. Regardless of whether you give them subsidy money, you have to charge higher prices for energy if you want any hope of reducing fossil fuel use.
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> headline is implying that we can address climate change by Consuming More Stuff; that's how we got into this mess in the first place.

It definitely possible to address climate change by "Consuming Different Stuff" if that different stuff is produced (and transported) in ways that emit less carbon.
Back in the day when 3rd party antivirus on windows was a must, these guys were the best price-performance trade-off. Then windows added defender as a standard that was as good, with the added benefit of a shared best interest of making windows run well; at the same time avast et al. moved to scummy practices and FUD. Good riddance.
My cat makes sure I'm up by 4:45am each day... No idea why.
They are probably expecting users to download Gapps themselves. They don't have any other choice here; it's launch without them or don't launch at all.
(Cuban here.) I find this result very interesting, really, as we're exposed to these chemicals in varying degrees and frequency. I personally live in a epidemiological controlled/safe (-ish) area of Havana, so my exposure is very limited. However, I do know that some other areas are way more affected by vectors since they are less urbanized and with more population density.

In those cases the authorities are more aggressive in the use of mass fumigation, particularly during the summer and autumn; but still I don't think that such elevated frequency produces the effects shown in the article, for the general population, that is.

It is true that we're particularly vulnerable to zika, chikungunya, yellow fever, and dengue fever (especially in 2016); and what I can easily imagine (and conjecture) is that diplomatic personnel were overly (and rightly) concerned, and liberally applied these products with more zeal than necessary. Thus, increased their exposition to these chemicals.
Why is Stripe still private?
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They already have their Truck and SUV on display at the motor shows, 0-60 in 3 seconds, towing 7700 lbs, 700hp, 400 mile range. They said shipping in 2020. But I dont see any mention of vans on their website.

Amazon is a financial backer of Rivian, so this makes sense.
I am planning on making the shift soon (as soon as my MBP 2014 gives up) and the choice for me will most likely be between the X1 Carbon or the XPS 15. My wife bought a last generation MBP and it crashes every time she uses the webcam and is already experiencing issues with the butterfly keyboard.
My trip pictures tend to be a mix of iPhone and “good camera”. Some shots are obviously the bigger sensor and camera/lens offering more control. But a lot of them I’d be hard put to say even on a big TV. Top-Notch print would often be a different matter but I make very few of those.
> "PR and advertising are not the same thing."

A distinction without substance.
The point is, a subsidy is when one entity possesses resources (money, equipment, etc.) and grants those resources to another party without expectation of a positive return on investment. Some argument can be made that a tax break is a subsidy, but I've often seen that framing used to mislead people into thinking that their tax dollars are actually being spent on the recipient of the tax break (e.g. Amazon in NYC). Trying to put speculative and indirect costs predicted to happen decades in the future under the label of subsidies crosses the line into intellectual dishonesty.

It's not hard to make good arguments for decarbonization of energy production, so using rhetoric with questionable intellectual honesty is often counterproductive.

Here's my reply to your comment below, HN is probably limiting a shared IP:

Your question is self-contradicting. "What if an entity doesn’t possess those resources, but gives them anyway" If an entity does not possess those resources, it cannot give them away. So the crux of the question is whether taking resources from another entity is a subsidy and the answer is no. When the Romans enslaved their neighbors and took their land, it'd be ridiculous to say that the Gauls, Carthaginians, etc. "subsidized" the Roman Republic and Empire. They did not help the Romans expand, in fact they resisted their expansion through force. Affecting climate through greenhouse gas emissions is much less direct than military conquest, but the dynamic is the same.

Good arguments can be made by pointing out that emissions are harmful and degrade our ability to live in our environments, even though carbon free energy production is more expensive. The consequence of people resorting to intellectual dishonesty to try and inflate the cost of fossil fuels make people think that proponents of climate change are naive to the economic reality that carbon free energy, especially renewables, are much more expensive to produce.
It's not possible in this case, unless the news source above is misreporting the story.

> "I advised them that this building belonged to the taxpayers of Dallas County and the State had no authority to authorize a break-in of this building," Leonard wrote in the email.

> Leonard wrote that he then called the state employee to tell him his contractors had been arrested and that he didn't have the authority to authorize this.

If Leonard had called their point-of-contact and it had been fake, it would be weird for him not to lead with that detail.
Almost every nation, developed or not, has some kind of spy program. It's a basic requirement for national defense.
Wow that robot looks so cool. Wish I can build something like that with a raspberry pi 3 and a ton of my kid's lego lying around in my house.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016724
as far as I know thinkpads have the smoothest linux experience
A lot to live up to, but those Collison brothers are hella ambitious and execute like champs, the whole team at stripe is seriously world class. No surprise here and incredibly well deserved. Keep up the good work folks.
Agreed, I mean these guys are now pawns in some political game. But these are people's lives. Let them off the hook and then you can commence with your dick measuring contests.
As another Czech person and former PM of another security product I guess there are two main factors in play:

1. Tech factor: amount of HW and SW what could be exported into Eastern bloc was very limited so people who worked with computers were all very confortable with low level work as getting anything else than bare computer was almost impossible.

2. Business factor: there was close to 0 money available in Easter bloc (= 40 years of comunism destroyed all personal equity as all property from previous generation was confiscated and your earning potential was very limited) so when you started software company you needed sales channel that didn't require much hand holding. Antiviruses are great because you could use listings on download sites and the product is culture agnostic.

In US your best bet in 90s was to create consumer or enterprise SW company. But imagine being in Czech republic: you don't understand the US culture to get into home of people and you don't have access to capital and institutional knowledge to build enterprise SW (no way you was going to afford opening US office on money availale in this region). But hey, no problem writing AV software, then upload it to download.com and then collect payments.

Also those AV companies took so long to take off: Avast was created in late 80s and it took them around 15 years to get any traction. Being in region with more opportunities you probably give up and try something else.
I'm not talking about any kind of "victim shaming" here. Just pointing out the fundamental fact that thoroughly breaking economy is game over. Think for a moment why we want to fight climate change? It's not because of some deep love to the pile of space rock we happen to inhabit.

I was addressing the problem with ideas that people should "just stop doing things", or that we should be drastically reducing consumption, or halting economic growth. These things, "consumption" and "growth", aren't just luxury goods and high valuations of bullshit companies. It's peace and prosperity and a hot meal on the table. It's scientific progress and all the technologies needed to fix the mess we've made.

Since bring up blaming: sure, "an average US consumer could easily forego half of what they buy (aside from groceries) and they'd still be fine". But good luck making them do that. When dealing with climate change, we need to talk about what's possible, not about what would be possible if we were living in a fairy land where every human is a perfectly rational actor prioritizing good of the many over the good of the few, and coordination problems didn't exist.
I've seen cofounders like this. Sometimes they let someone go because they simply don't like that they look old or something.

Fwiw, the person I speak of was also looking for a hype-based exit and the mission was to sell, not build, a business. It worked.
Sorry, I don't think you're right here.

Modern cars feature considerably more features (both in the bodyshell and in terms of active safety systems) which protect both passengers and pedestrians.

It's simply untrue to say we reached peak safety 20 years ago and everything else has just been pointless window dressing.

I buy and sell cars as a side gig, and newer cars (last 10 years or so) are far better equipped to deal with accidents - they have higher waistlines, better active safety features (airbags, stability systems, seatbelt pre-tensioners, lane assist, better-performing ABS systems), and the bodyshells have features such as side impact bars and larger crumple zones.

I recently bought a Fiat Seicento as a stop-gap. It was really old-school - light, small, nippy (even with a 55 bhp engine) and great fun to drive. But it was tragically weak and definitely not safe if you had an accident - as backed up by Euro NCAP's assessment of the seicento. Cars like that and the original mini are not something I'd like to have an accident in. (For reference, I did 10 years of gravel rally driving, so I've had a few knocks).
And you might die tomorrow, so stop saving for retirement?

I would imagine the error bars on a 1m sea rise to be a lot narrower than the error bars for Earth turning into Venus.
No, it can't be used for that and the size of the batteries even for those things it can be used for is a giant issue (and thus cost)

Solars capacity factor is around 20-30 or something like that. It's not even close to being a realistic deliverer and wind doesn't change that either.

I am not joking here. If you can point me to any solution that can economically power ex. the shipping industry using electricity please point me to it so I can invest in it right away.

The reality is that we are decades if not longer away from anything close to the dream scenario you read about everywere around you which becomes very very obvious the second you start looking for investment opportunities and is a good reason why it's primarily driven by politicians, not the market.

Investments in solar and wind are declining too because china is reducing its investments. If it was so great why wouldn't the private market just take over?

My guess is that in 5 years a lot of people are going to get a rude awakening when they finally realize they've been told dreams rather than reality.

But as I said. If you can point to actual solutions to these problems then please let me know so I can invest.
The fact that similar things are analogous or have similar effects doesn't mean they are the same thing. The purpose of that massive collection of words in the unabridged dictionary is to draw fine distinctions.

For an example, trade tariffs and quotas are similar in almost the exact same way you describe here and have very similar effects. However the distinction is in how the financing for the costs works. Who pays? How directly do they pay? The answers explain why tariff isn't a quota.

In your example as well, you change a payment from a direct monetary one to a diffuse externalized cost, thus creating a distinction. The language has evolved to capture that distinction, your desire to conflate the two notwithstanding.

A subsidy is a direct monetary grant.
This is a tricky problem, but I don't think limiting the numbers to public cameras would work. I'm not sure any numerical approach would.

In Atlanta, for instance, the cameras surveilled by the police are 90% privately owned. And this isn't just "with a warrant" or "when a shopkeeper reports a crime and provides tapes", but nonstop, integrated access to their feeds.

Conversely, a lot of the cameras in London may be private, unconnected, and indoors, which I agree is much less worrying. But the Ring of Steel does far more surveillance per-camera-per-capita than any shop camera, since it has unified design meant to maximize how many people are identifiably captured on camera.
You'd be surprised how much companies operate in silos without any training, design, or planning.

Most of the time, you're just throwing crap together at the last minute. Doing things without saying no.
Kudos to the Wikipedia/Wikimedia teams for all this hard work!
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The popups on this site, good lord.
Lots of people talking about Huawei backdoors, none providing credible evidence of them actually existing. They have their share of security vulnerabilities but no worse than competitors such as Cisco[1].

Random Chinese made IOT devices phoning home to servers in China is definitely a thing, but has nothing to do with Huawei.

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/evidence-of-backdoors-i...