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Liberals are crushing it. Hillary Clinton opposed gay marriage in 2008. Think about that, how fast liberals are changing society. Liberals are absolutely crushing it.
I would say that conservative views are beginning to gain more traction because of censorship. There's nothing people want to read more than a banned book.
Maybe the problem is that these scientists aren't doing science, they did some engineering. That's great, but it doesnt fit their publishing model.
Chinese EV maker Nio reports $460M loss, cancels earnings call
API was fine when I used it, my main concern is that it was significantly slower than the Python / native one. Maybe performance is ISO now, I haven't tested for a while.
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Do you mean to say that your analogy is relevant to the claims against RMS being partly or completely dismissed as a "necessary evil" comparable to shooting a person who's on a killing spree, when weighted against his contributions?

I'm just asking. I got that feeling reading your comment. I get that feeling reading a lot of comments here. I could be wrong.

As a reminder, he has been accused, by several independent parties, of, among other things:

-Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office.

-Threatening a colleague to kill himself if he/she didn't go on a date with him.

-Posting up signs in his workplace along the lines of "Knight for Justice (Also: Hot Ladies)".
I would argue that a 50/50 vote is not democratic, as it does not represent a majority.
So, the full gist is: Nim uses automatic reference counting with cycle detection. If you want to, you can disable the cycle detection, perhaps only temporarily. The compiler flag for turning GC off doesn't actually turn off all GC, IIRC. It still does automatic reference counting, and it can still do cycle detection, it's just that you need to initiate it manually.

The language does have pointers, and will let you do any C-style memory unsafe whatever you want to do with them. However, it doesn't have any library calls that I'm aware of that are equivalent to C's malloc() and free(). You'd have to supply your own.

There are also ambitions, of introducing real non-GC memory-safe memory management. Probably something along the lines of how Rust does it. Those haven't come to fruition yet, though.

So, long story short, yes you can completely disable GC, but I think that its capabilities on that front are somewhat overstated.
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Other studies have adjusted for the effects of BMI and exercise levels, and sun exposure is still significantly inversely associated with all cause mortality:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12251

Over a period of 20 years, you will double your risk of dying if you avoid sun exposure.
But the employer would, because the firm they use to do background checks will use an IP in the States to do the search.
Yeah... I'm not bailing out Python for Elixir.

I use both Python and Elixir. Python for web scraping and Elixir for my side project website.

I can see if people want to move web dev from Python to Elixir but yeah not entirely bailing out for Elixir. BEAM VM in general is terrible for numerical stuff. Elixir is pretty niche, it solve one thing concurrency problems. Python is a much more general language.
Do you care to share more about how quitting alcohol was? How much were you drinking before you quit? How do you curb cravings? I'm in a similar boat and I've honestly found LaCroix to be one of the best substitutes for the urge to open a drink.
I've felt Dan Carlin (Hardcore History) has always had a very fair approach - the latest episodes are available and free with no advertisements. If you want the back catalog in it's entirety, it's a single lump sum of $50.
I just witnessed how complete ecosystems are destroyed all the time in the name of incremental updates.
Some prominent example are Python3, Gnome3 or KDE4. Every time such a transition takes place lots of people that are not full time programmers but are using and creating in the FOSS realm mainly in their spare time have to spend a lot of time to adjust to the radical changes. And every time some useful legacy software just gets lost because the maintainers don't bother with porting and just scrap the thing altogether. A permanently moving target makes FOSS that is dependent on many hobbyists just impossible. Just stop changing things all the time. FOSS is clearly reliant on hobbyists and those usually have real jobs and other things to do in their life.
I think it's pretty clear that in many western democracies it's getting increasingly easy to form majorities "against" stuff while it's getting harder to form majorities "for stuff".

There's a majority in the UK that wants to live the EU, but there's no majority agreeing on where to go from there. That's why this referendum was mindbogglingly stupid to begin with, you can't give the people a choice if you're not prepared to handle both outcomes. What's next, a referendum for "social security for all and basic income and no taxes, also free candy. Yes or no?" Of course the people is sovereign, but democracy can't trump reality. How can you live the UK without hard border with Ireland? This wasn't even a topic at the time of the referendum as I recall.

David Cameron made one of the biggest political errors in modern history here.
Nice theory. But does it holds when there are competitors with an infinite amount of cash (e.g. google)?

Not only they will copy your product, they would also offer it for free.
CLR was designed for multiple languages execution models, including C++.

In what concerns C#, besides GC, you get access to off heap unamaged allocations, low level byte manipulations, value types, inlined vector allocations, stack allocation, struct aligments, spans.

All GCs have eventually to stop the world, but they aren't all made alike, and it is up to developers to actually take use of the language features for writing GC-free code.
Why Enzyme is not necessarily the best to test your React Native app
if you use iterm2 on a Mac, and aren't colour-blind, then there's a somewhat cool thing you can do with zsh+ssh: based on the hostname, change the colour of the tab to represent something like dev/test/qa/uat/stage/prod/etc.

Here's roughly what I use: https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/f2aae1e167c7899d7d263...

It could also be adapted to anything other than ssh. For instance kubectl, aws cli, virtualenvs, etc etc.

Let me know if this helps, and if you have any suggestions!
Goodhart's law: are academic metrics being gamed?
Without list of sites it blocks those numbers are useless. I could setup to block only news.ycombinator.com and the result would be similar
The paradox is: people with the disposable income to pay for ad-free social media are the most desirable advertising targets.

The reality is that a subscription Facebook would take your money and sell a profile of you for ads on other sites.
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The majority of Labour-voting people in the North of England is in favour of Brexit.
I highly recommend going in your profile settings and allow dead/flagged posts. This post has already been flagged and there are a bunch of interesting comments that are below the threshold of what you'd normally see.
This is really terrifying. Now they want to control our minds or at least read our minds???
Which one of "the ruling classes" are you referring to? The one that controls the narrative in the press, the civil servants that manage government machinery like the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England, the people running successful businesses, the largest owners of real estate and capital?
People voted for 'leave'. At the time, what 'leave' looked like was deliberately left open, by both sides. It's now received wisdom that that 'leave' meant that people wanted no deal Brexit and they wanted it hard, but that simply isn't true.

As a separate issue, the windows of both sides on 'acceptable' Brexits have been diverging quickly, partly because everyone is now sick of it and partly because the hardcore on both sides are taking the opportunity to seize control of the narrative. As a consequence, anything short of WTO terms is now "BRINO" (which would actually describe the kind of Norway-plus exit fantasised by some on the Remain side after the defeat) and contrariwise anything short of revocation without a referendum is a betrayal of truth and justice.

Never mind. It's not like we wanted a functioning polity after this is resolved, in any case...
Right, corporations are people I forgot.
> Popular science is useful for disemminating science that has been solidified through decades of falsiability tests, not last month's papers.

Wow, never seen this worded so clearly before. Thanks for the great summation buboard!
I live in a Tier 1 city and online transactions have gone up over the years. Not sure how much of this is due to the Demonetization, but UPI has played a significant part.[1]

1. https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/banking-finance/in....
>Facebook actually adds a lot more value to my life than HN does because Facebook is the place one of my friend groups arrange our 4-6 yearly weekend retreats.

Exactly.

This is how we find out about events in the strength athlete community, it's how we can best follow our friends and their victories at competitions in their area, it's how we can see how training is going for other people and be an umpteenth set of eyes on their form or training issues and be able to go "hey, I had that same problem and this is what worked for me" or even find new programming ideas for ourselves.

Similarly, we use it multiple times a week for my local congregation. We have a private Facebook group where we post so and so needs help, the young men are meeting at so and so, we need volunteers for this still, etc.

And of course I can see what is going on in the lives of my friends that either distance or adulthood prevents me from interacting with regularly. "Wow, Meg is pregnant again!" "Hey, their wedding looked awesome!" "Oh, your mom died, she didn't even tell me she was sick, I'm so sorry Aaron".

I don't get this whole "Facebook is the devil, it makes me wish I too had a private jet and 6 lambos and had all the sex with all the women with my champagne parties!" thing. Uh, hi, unfriend people you don't actually care about or barely know... you don't need to be friends with 2173 "cool" people and you certainly don't need to compare yourself to them.

For me Facebook is a constant source of laughs and "hey I'm happy for them, they won their division/got married/are having a baby/are doing so great with their weight loss/passed the bar exam!"
Except that most people won't pay, causing this new social network to be much less useful to everyone, causing it to fail.

I'd like it to work, but I really don't see how it will.
Isn’t that what the board is for?
> uses a bracelet to measure neuron activity in a subject’s arm to determine movement that person is thinking about, even if they aren’t physically moving

I don't understand how this could possibly work with an armband. They presumably are reading electrical signals from motor neurons, but why do they fire if there's no movement? Is it possible that they are detecting incredibly small movements that are involuntarily caused by thinking about moving your hand?
Well, there are Buddhist and Christian monasteries which I certainly know they exist. I'm sure that there are Muslim and Hindu monasteries also...
I stopped posting pictures to social media since I realized I was just using it to share them with friends and family. Instead, I just send them to group chats or people individually. It feels a lot more personal that way.
I'm confused, how much is 12% worth when acquired?

If we aren't talking about $3x,xxx or more USD, then the acquisition isn't really very financially significant.

As such I would tell the cofounder that litigiation is a waste of time for both parties and that he really should just give you 12% or etc before you are forced to ruin a relationship and pursue legal action, which would be a net loss for everyone except the lawyers.
You are correct barring non-monotheism pendantry but there are multiple purposes including what was originally intended.

Another purpose was to dump awkward heirs and spares in a primogeniture inheritance - certainly not an offically endorsed one - akin to a butcher's knife being meant for livestock and their products.
A majority in parliament is not how Boris became PM ...
The prorogation in 1948 was about creating a pro-forma session of Parliament just for the purpose of passing a law an extra time, so as to pass it over the objections of the Lords. It didn't actually prevent Parliament from having its say, which is the issue today.

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

(BoJo's government still has the confidence of Parliament until it doesn't- that's not what the court ruled on)
Interestingly, in a world with strong norms against speech having career consequences, people would have been empowered to speak up earlier. The expectation that unpopular speech will have consequences for them makes them keep quiet until they are sure their views are popular.
The protests and Greta Thunberg's addresses have given me hope during a time of political darkness.
Germany, meanwhile, just voted to increase the size of the Green party in the EU parliament. And even the CDU is caucusing with the Greens now. Macron's yellow vest capitulation was what, 4 months ago?
All negotiations must include the ability to walk away. If it's not on the table and we're not prepared to walk then the EU can (and has) offered us the worst deal.

The idea that we must accept any deal is why the general public shouldn't be involved in the negotiations.
There are two possible situations:

A candidate has multiple job offers, and decides which one to take.

The company interviews multiple people for a single position, rejecting the others.

There are only a small number of sectors where the first situation is reasonably possible, a lot of us on here are incredibly fortunate that engineering happens to be one of them. For the majority of the job market (by volume of people rather than volume of money), it takes people attempt after attempt to get a job. They don't get to choose between multiple offers, they have to take the first thing that will allow them to pay the rent, and then they have to hold on to it.
That makes about as much sense as making builtin functions UPPERCASE. Also, what tradition?
>Subscribing to a service for $20/mo is a one time decision, whereas figuring out if the show you're about to watch is worth $0.30 gets tiring really quickly.

"figuring out if the show you're about to watch is worth $0.30 gets tiring really quickly." This is the biggest problem in the industry that no one wants to talk about. Valuing content aka how much is x show worth. The monthly premiums actually kill or put as strong fixed upper bound on what the content is actually worth.

It also brings up another argument on whether or not valuing content ( how much is x show worth) is even worth talking about and talking about how you got your show on x platform because that means 100x more people will see your stuff vs if you are not on x platform.
It wouldn't entirely defeat the purpose, as your site itself would probably be delisted in the EU.
I imagine this'll take an Oculus route: awesome tech bought by Facebook with an initial "I'm not giving Facebook my data!" backlash, followed by high-quality products that edge more and more into the market by actually being pretty good.

Hopefully (or not).
I don't see how what you're saying is relevant. RMS said that the age was a "minor detail". He didn't make any claim about what the age of consent should be. Given his previous comments, one suspects he doesn't think there should be one: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...
There exists a category of Indians who apologise for being Indian...They like to 5uck on f0reign d1cks
That sets a terrible precedent: lose a vote, use every resource you can to thwart implementing the outcome, get a second vote.
I assumed twitter is popular for politics because it's a self perpetuating loop of outrage. If only we could harvest such outrage into electricity...
What?
The queen via the prime minister interfered.
The court said the prime minister can fuck off and restored parliament to functioning.
You cannot compare the S&P returns to a VC return since the risk profile is different. You would need to compare the risk-adjusted return (alpha).

For example, as a hedge fund, I got 5%, and the s&p did 13%. Howver my stddev is 0.1% while the s&p is 20%.
Put it this way. James Damore was fired and shamed for having the wrong ideas on how to make the workplace more equitable. I challenge you to find someone who got fired from a FAANG company after publicly announcing that men are trash.
This sounds straight like future-future-tech. My Fitbit can't even measure my heartbeat or steps with sufficient precision and they want to measure electric signals from neurons? Sounds (yet) impossible.
One unadvertised advantage of pihole is monitoring and blocking sites that you don't want kids to use, such as the thousands of io-games and what not.
Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type
Is it really? Googling for "borsjtsjsch" gives me just this thread. You've created a combination of letters never seen before by Google!

https://www.google.com/search?q=borsjtsjsch&nfpr=1
There has to be an age of consent. Sex without consent is rape. I don't see the problem. Different countries have slightly different definitions of pretty much every crime in the book. Whether or not you are committing fraud, burglary, assault, etc. etc., will also depend on a number of "minor details" that may vary between jurisdictions. Either RMS thinks there should be an age of consent, in which case it's obvious that the age in question must be somewhat arbitrary, or he doesn't think there should be an age of consent. Given RMS's previous comments on the same subject, it's pretty clear what he's saying here: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...
Great article, but I think it misses one key aspect of why monasteries are dying out: the lack of lively church communities which used to encourage dedicated people to join the monastic life. Monasteries don't exist in a vacuum, they have an intricate interdependency with normal parishes of families and, more generally, people "in the world." It should not really be the responsibility of monastics to do public relations to get people to choose this kind of life. A good example is the abbot from the article, he grew up a parish, was an altar server, etc., that made it possible for him to even conceive of this kind of life style--something that is just too big of a chasm for most non-church people nowadays.
If you've not already, I recommend reading "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace
I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with this analysis.

The government's originally stated aim of the prorogation, was that it was a standard mechanism prior to a queen's speech.

The court has taken the opinion that the real aim of this prorogation was instead to restrict parliamentary debate of the Brexit process and that this is unlawful.

Looking at historic prorogation lengths (https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...) we can see that "Between 1930 and 2017, the mean average was about 5 calendar days, a median average of about 4 calendar days.", so it's clear that this prorogation was considerably longer than usual.

Your suggestion then that there's nothing out of the ordinary, seems unlikely to hold and indeed the government's own lawyers didn't even try that line of argument during the case, as far as I'm aware.

To quote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49722087

'Lord Keen said previous prorogations of Parliament - including in 1930 and 1948 - had "clearly been employed" when governments wanted to "pursue a particular political objective", adding: "They are entitled to do so."'

so the government was arguing a) that the matter was not one for the courts and b) that even if it was, the government was entitled to use prorogation for political ends.

I'm actually mildly surprised that b) didn't hold. allowing a) would have set a very dangerous precedent.
> They've had 3 years to act. Why 2 more weeks is so critical isn't actually all that obvious in the big picture.

When you dont have agreement on what to do and a deadline is looming, it seems obvious that, however much it should NOT have been needed, it is in fact critical.

You arent chopping 5 weeks off of a 3 year period, you're chopping 5 weeks off of an 8 week period.
Like campaigning to accept any deal.
The majority of people in many Labour supporting seats in the North of England are in favour of Brexit. The majority of people who actually voted Labour in those seats are not.

That's a subtle distinction, but it's hugely important to Labour's political decision-making.
In 1997 the question was not brought before the court, so referencing it as some sort of precedent that his behavior should be acceptable is meaningless.

Secondly, the damage done was accordingly limited: If people saw the delay as questionable, people were given an opportunity to directly punish the government in an election rather than doing so indirectly via Parliament. If there was time to hold a general election with suitable margin ahead of October 31st, then this proroguing would not have been an issue, as we'd be going into an election instead.

> Again, Johnson is not denying Parliament the opportunity to vote on the deal.

It is not up to Johnson or the courts to decide what Parliament may or may not consider critical to do in the run-up to such a major constitutional change. His government serves with the consent of parliament; parliament is sovereign, not the government.

> It is important to really think through the logic here: if Johnson wanted to stop Parliament he would delayed until AFTER October 31. He didn't do this.

This does not follow. If he had announced he would prorogue until after October 31, then he would have to give up any pretense that he is negotiating a deal, because parliament would be unable to vote for it. It would instantly ensure a majority for removing him, as everyone opposed to no deal would have no other choice. His only option if his goal was to stop Parliament was to limit their ability to function as much as possible but still little enough to not push people into deciding removing him instantly was absolutely essential.
"Chronic pain is widespread and under-treated" may well still be true. It's just that opioids do carry a risk of addiction. This is partly why so many states have started legalizing marijuana, medical or otherwise.

I don't really like this article's tone of press-blaming: ultimately the medical profession has to take responsibility for its treatment, both under- or over-treatment, and has its own responsbility to find out the facts and disseminate them through professional channels.
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For decades I'm paying $80/month for each 2U dell poweredge R815 with 1TB of RAM and 48 cores, hosted in a datacenter with redundant power. I'm sure it is fun to play around with all these expensive services Amazon offers, but when you see the billing side of what they do, its not really worth it.
Obviously you need to see the best lawyer you can find immediately. You should not be asking people on the internet to resolve this for you.
Chronic pain: the problem is not in their backs or knees but in their brains