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> I think that blaming Russians for everything is doing more harm than good.

How is the pdf in any way blaming Russians for everything? The fact is that Russian intelligence services and affiliates are running disinformation operations against Americans and others.

Disinformation and propaganda efforts are part of Russia's Gerasimov Doctrine, which seeks to make use of a spectrum of unconventional methods to achieve geopolitical aims without necessarily using direct military action. It's fake news, it's amplification, it's human intelligence, it's online trolling, it's hacking, it's covert action.

Obviously trolling, hacking, and what not happen naturally on their own. But Russian intelligence services seek to amplify extremism and discord whenever possible. And they've been exploiting political and social strike for many, many decades.
A little much to call a country of 330 million people "kind of morons" right?
Your children are starving.

You can (a) run away and watch them starve or (b) rush the compound and hope to get some food.

Threats -- and demonstrations -- of violence are only reliable if the person being threatened has something to lose.
The line is different for all people. I love the concept of ad blockers in all forms of media. Why should I be forced to take in your ads? I can already skip them with a quick 2 or 3 taps of the skip button, why should I be forced to do that while I go about my day?
Something else to consider, that the article doesn't really touch, is the pace of change. Even at global-disaster scale, climate change moves pretty slowly. The ocean may rise a couple of meters, but it's not rising a couple of meters later this afternoon.

Interesting thing to think about... in the past century, Earth's population has quadrupled, with most of that occurring along coastlines. That means we built enough housing in a century to accommodate four times as many people in those coastal cities. Why can't we just keep building? Population growth has mostly leveled off (we're looking at no more than 50% population increase over the next century, probably less), and we have much better tools now than we had then. If New Orleans floods, you don't necessarily need to move to Kansas to escape it - and the mouth of the Mississippi will continue to be a vital trade corridor even if the oceans rise.

The changes are generational in timespan. Think that way.
I think Zangwill mentions it
I wish the author had delved more into how his studies of past civ collapse inform his predictions of climate-related collapse. Instead he encourages "generosity, altruism, and cooperation" like this is some sort of corporate retreat.
Wordpress pages and patient surveys are hardly a "large body of evidence".
You could instead WireGuard split tunnel dns traffic and serve it with Pi-Hole or forward it to dns.aguard.com if you do not really require analytics or use unbound with block lists to resolve names recursively.
I thought this was going to be advice...
I'm running the Pi Zero with a micro usb to ethernet adapter
And in some cases, the only path to literacy.
I’m curious - who, in this model, gets to define the “social good”?
I wish I could remember the book, but it was targeted at preppers by someone who'd lived through a temporary collapse of government in S. America. And his advice was if you are truly a prepper, you aren't storing guns, ammo, and food, you're working to get your local government to prepare for disaster events. And his reasoning was this, as soon as the central government failed, the smaller towns created militias which went around collecting food and supplies to be rationed by everyone.
> I get that you may disagree with the detention stuff, but what about their work in other areas?

Yeah, what about that works? That work justify doing unethical things on the side?
If you feel that you are wasting your time here, then there are two terms I submit for your consideration, opportunity cost, and sunk cost.

By pursuing this startup, what is the value of other opportunities you have to pass up. If you think the value of the startup is higher than those, then stick with the startup. However it sounds like you don't feel that way. If the other opportunities are a higher value, you should pursue those instead.

So far it sounds like you are mostly out time as you can get your cash back. If the business is not profitable and you don't have a good outlook on it. Then your time value so far is is lost, or sunk. Sunk costs, are sunk. You can't get them back, and people have lost a lot more trying to get them back.

As others have mentioned about, try to negotiate are prorated amount of your shares. If you can't get thank, don't keep wasting time here. Cut your losses and learn a lesson from it, then move on.
> Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office.

Even the initial accusation doesn't try to push the story that far:

"He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. [..] (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)"

Person has sleeping accommodation in place where he lives (odd thought it may be). Sometimes people use it as chair. No mentions of requests or toplessness.

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

Unsubstantiated: saying something like "I can't imagine life without you" can be interpreted just like that depending on a variety of circumstances. That was also decades ago.

> Posting up signs in his workplace along the lines of "Knight for Justice (Also: Hot Ladies)".

Really now? Incidentally also the only one of your accusations of which there is evidence instead of hearsay or urban legends. Furthermore, "a sign" not "signs".
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They're OK, but fairly old. I've switched to Amcrest as my go-to brand as I'm having a tough time figuring out if the newer D-Links will work with Blue Iris or if they will only work with D-Link's app/cloud stuff.

Some of them are starting to exhibit mechanical failures - I have one pan/tilt model where the connection between the camera and the rest of the unit has broken, and I have another where the mechanical IR filter is starting to stick and sometimes fails to engage or disengage. I think these failures are primarily age-related and I expect that my Amcrest cameras will eventually start to fail in the same way.

These days my main considerations are whether the camera can serve up an RTSP stream. I do all of the motion detection/notification/recording/viewing/etc via Blue Iris.
You own 40% of the company right now and Jim owns 60% ( assuming all common stock ). If you sold the company right now, that should be the ratio to use to divvy up the proceeds due to the common shareholders.

Assuming no vesting / clawback agreement was in place:

Simple option: have Jim buy your shares at fair value, which may be very close to 0.00. If Jim is unwilling / unable to pay with cash, have the company write you a note for the shares. In both cases, Jim ends up with 100% equity, which is what you say he wants, while you are compensated for value created to date.
> Dr Gart, at this moment are you hungry? In your lifetime have you ever been hungry? Hunger is a type of pain. Did you treat that pain by consuming a substance?

If you don't eat you die. Do you die if you don't consumer pain killers? No you don't.

This is similar to the nonsense peddled by people who claim anti-depressants are the same as insulin and various other snake-oil salespeople.
Then maybe start there!

Something like (obviously don’t use these exact words) “Hey Jim, I know it’s a drag that I’m leaving the company like this. I’m sad I have to go too. I know it’s messy if I retain equity, but is there any way you could pay me a buyout to reflect some portion of the hours I’ve put in so far? I’m pretty broke and it would make a huge difference.”

Then if Jim honestly feels that is fair, and he (very big consideration) feels like he can actually afford it, he might just do that.

The number, in that case, will probably be lower than you imagine. Because everyone tends to value their time highly and other people’s time less so.

But it would sidestep any fighting, and Jim will feel less resentment because it was genuinely his choice.

Or he will say absolutely no. But again that’s what you’re likely to get no matter how much you fight, the only difference being the damage done by fighting.

And in either event, whatever Jim does, you can focus your mind on your next thing in life.

Edit: Because remember, starting a company always had the risk you would work a whole bunch and end up with nothing to show for it.
Basically when you buy any property in India, you have to get your name as the owner in the historical record of the owners with the Land Registrar. This is the registration which is around 3-4% of the property value. The respective states also charge 2-3% for the sale.
Are NNs producing useful results in this area? I'm on the density functional theory side of things, so much smaller scales than MD.

To me, it's not clear whether we are good at quantifying when a neural net is well-parameterized in atomistic simulations.

The limitations of MD simulations and all the built in assumptions are well understood. We can reason about where our simulations might fail, even for very large systems. It's always a question about whether the underlying model can capture all the physics that occurs.

With a NN or other black box model, there's no way to reason about it except for benchmarking test/validation sets that (hopefully) capture the physics that you care about, but you still cannot really reason about how well the model will extrapolate to multiple interacting physics with different magnitudes at different length scales.
> "I'm probably wasting my time here"

Realistically, you've likely answered your question regarding if it's worth it to fight it out.

Then again, if you've signed docs that say you own X shares, then Jim can't just take those away (as the parent poster mentioned).

Jim could issue a bunch of new stock (watering you down), or (if it's an LLC/s-corp with pass-through income) generate a bunch of phantom income to drown you in taxes, or create a new corp and sell the IP from oldCorp to newCorp for a pittance (bit of a quagmire there as you'd have good grounds to sue).

All of these present challenges, though.

Your best bet may be to determine a transition period where, at the end, he pays you for your shares and you walk away. Your chances of staying as an equity owner given the capitalization of the biz (~$1000, if I understand correctly, as his $12k was spent outside of the biz).

Of course, this should be in writing, signed, etc.
If you die then you can't help them anymore.
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So black money is equally prevalent in Pakistan also? Another sign of our strong bond, connection and brotherhood! xD
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Nothing wrong with buying merch and concert tickets while pirating the discography. Fuck the record label.
Reasonable explanation of and suggested solution for the problem. Think I'd say "screw the housekeeping" and design for a garbage collector to periodically sweep the persistent store, likely as an independent process needing no data not already in that store. Then you're covered for the cases the transaction manager still drops.
They are available.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle
> If we had voted to remain and there was a movement attempting to force us to leave I would be manning the barricades in support of remain, despite the fact I voted leave and believe we should leave.

No you wouldn't.

The referendum was chaotic, with multiple leave campaigns, and people were constantly lied to about what the outcome would look like. If the debate had been much clearer about what the cost would be, especially of no deal, then it might have been acceptable. But the whole reason it's fallen apart is competing versions of "fantasy Brexit" that can't be delivered.
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- borsjtsj

- schrokkende

borsjtsjch does not exist, borsjtsj does.
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> just look at Switzerland

You are right that Switzerland has a long history of direct democracy. But the reason it works at all is that people vote whether to accept specific proposals that have already been drawn up.

This was the biggest flaw in the Brexit referendum. As formulated, it was way too woolly and covered a wide range of possible plans.

At which point, some rabid Brexiteer chimes in and says "No, Brexit was very clearly defined as ... ", and then proceeds to reel off their pet opinions-as-facts. QED.
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> I did. To me, it says "I've known a lot of creepy people; as long as they get their work done, it's ok". And I don't agree with that.

Here's the problem: ur mom GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
For people wondering about it, you can select the engineers and make them build harvesters and turrets. There is one medic who will heal the unit closest to him.
Talk to anyone playing any games that already involve sitting in one place and you'll hear it's mandatory, not a gimmick. Think simulations, racing games, flying. The difference between a racing sim in vr vs on a monitor is a massive difference in immersion that is impossible with monitors. VR isn't a gimmick, we just don't know how to deal with converting our existing ideas of games with it. It's like the early days of video games, we're just trying to figure out how to actually develop for it.
Under the title, there should be a link that says "vouch".
A protection racket might be the best business, but it's also a very risky business.
> and there are obvious avenues by which Brexit may be avoided.

ish - it's pretty telling that the pro-Remain parties are running scared of a GE. They suspect they'll be utterly demolished in many areas.
Show HN: F# Server stub generator for Azure functions
4 months after we added the F# Giraffe server stub generator to OpenAPI Generator (https://twitter.com/oas_generator/status/1125309026558926848), we're glad to see another F# server stub generator for Azure Functions by the same author: Nick Fisher (https://twitter.com/NickFisherAU)

To generate the F# server stub for Azure Functions given an OpenAPI/Swagger specification file, please follow 3 simple steps below:

1. Download the Java JAR (https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/4.1.3-SNAPSHOT/openapi-generator-cli-4.1.3-20190924.112244-39.jar)

2. Rename the JAR as "openapi-generator-cli.jar"

3. Run the following command to generate server stub for F#/Azure functions for the Petstore API (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml):

Mac/Linux:

$ java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g fsharp-functions -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml -o /var/tmp/fsharp-functions/

Windows:

$ java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate -g fsharp-functions -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/master/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml -o C:\tmp\fsharp-functions

If you've any feedback or question, please let us know via https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues/new

Thanks again for the new generator by Nick Fisher (https://twitter.com/NickFisherAU)

Ref: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/pull/3933
> The EU referendum absolutely was an exercise in direct democracy.

Not in the slightest. It was explicitly non-binding on a legal level. It was fundamentally an opinion poll with a large sample size.

> Breakup from the EU is so complex that we could not have prepared for it enough to know the ramifications of any options.

Perhaps, but that's why the people have elected representatives, who are very clearly saying the no-deal approach isn't acceptable.

Claiming the Brexit referendum gives the PM the right to do anything he wants is silly. It's like claiming "we should fund the NHS" is carte blanche to have the NHS euthanize everyone under 40 because "the people approved the funding".
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I said linux because I’m aware macOS isn’t ever going to be available on non-Apple hardware :-) my other criteria are simply about restating that a MacBook isn’t just its build quality but also the privacy conscious, secure and developer friendly macOS experience.

At any rate, I’m not here for an OS flame war, but power to you if you think that a Dell XPS running Ubuntu is:

a) comparably smooth to using a macbook and

b) is available at a “fraction” of the price.

In the meanwhile I’ll go back to my skeptical perch and wait for a true challenger to emerge (which seemingly may never happen based on history, sadly).
It might work for the better in the long run. No possibility to block ads combined with advertiser's greed will eventually make the whole thing unusable. And I am okay with consuming less content. Maybe along with the fall of the internet advertising industry we'll reinvent the wheel from scratch. Paywalls are fine if you absolutely care about that content but they don't work so well alongside free content back-ed up by ads.
That's a PR narrative twisted to make the results sound much more useful than they really were :(
Somehow I don't get the American obsession with doomsday events. Sure, they make for a good story backdrop, but how realistic is it really? I have my doubts that's climate change apocalypse will be quick, I suspect it to be a rather drawn out affair. And just an individual could prepare for years or even decades of such things or believe one could just doesn't make sense.

And if you study real doomsday periods in history, the plague, the fall of the roman empire and such things, in the end society somehow survived. During the plague even wars that have started before it continued. And England kept the state and government prett much going.

And the larger, long term changes and impacts most likely cannot be mitigated on the individual level. Certainly not by stockpiling on stuff.
One of my coworkers is a prepper and he almost never says a word about it. Even if you ask directly, you won't get much out of him.

I think you're experiencing selection bias.
There is good reason for the Dutch transliteration. Compare English, where /ʃ/ is a very common phoneme, but due to deriving the alphabet from Latin (which had no /ʃ/), there is no letter for it.

People are taught that the sound is spelled "sh", but that's not quite true:

mission
contrition
sure

And as all of those examples illustrate, in addition to being a phoneme in its own right, [ʃ] is also the English allophonic reduction of the sound sequence /sj/. It's not a coincidence that "sj" is the standard Dutch spelling of the same sound. The English standard orthographical equivalent, "borshch", is less accurate than the Dutch is.

It's very interesting to compare people's view of /ʃ/ with /ʒ/, another perfectly normal native English phoneme, but one that most people insist is foreign and hard to pronounce. The only difference I see is that a standard American education covers the idea that /ʃ/ is a real sound and should be spelled "sh", while /ʒ/ is generally not mentioned. But of course the existence of the sound is not actually related to whether your teacher mentioned it in elementary school.
Exactly. The climate crisis is likely to look a lot more like Europe's refugee crisis.
Wikipedia is a great example. They have to go begging the world every few months to keep the greatest website in the world operating. HN (and dang's job) is funded by the excess of YCombinator, and the rest of us just show up to chat whenever.
This decade’s suburbs also have minorities hopped up on opioids.

You’ll never get resolution on the race baiting observation. You’ll never find it productive to try to get revenge by enacting the same failed policies “more equally”.

Yes, there are some people that are simply playing a game of power for people that look similar to them.

Now back to addressing the current problem holistically.
Yeah. The smartphone was such huge crazy success that we keep trying to figure what will be next thing. Maybe there won't ever be, at least in our lifetimes, something that compares to it.

The Roomba is a successful product, (10% of the market in the US, most sold vacuum clearer). But it's not what we thought the market for robots at home would be. I remember Gates perpetually betting on robotics as the next hit.

Same for Apple Watch, not as ubiquitous as a iPhones, but pretty popular.

If everything seems like a failure compared to smartphones, maybe we shouldn't use it as a benchmark.
I meant that they're considered unreliable (different than "bad") in general regardless of location. Your reasoning really doesn't hold for Japanese cars in both the US and most of Europe, in my experience. Import costs are rather trivial for cars between the US and EU/EEA. Most of the reputation of the unreliability of American and European is actually warranted (which is why it's generally shared across the ponds) and the rest tends to be due to national biases.
Is there any evidence of this?
Do not use it, then.
dmix, thanks for the feedback.

Not 100% sure what you meant by "Having a direct integration with Amazon via a chrome extension would be nice": like a button that would let you save a book to stack if you happen to be on that book's amazon page?

If that's what you meant, I feel like that sort of changes the purpose of the site from exploring and discovery to shopping?

Also, tried to check out Bookvibe but it seemed to be down.
Presumably, it's because the regulators concluded that these were areas where we'd be cutting off our noses to spite our faces. It's widely thought that that applies to the entire bill, but even aside from that, this is basically what lobbyists are for.

They are representatives from the various American industries, hired to make their case in front of the regulators. The regulators are full-time bureaucrats, who know a lot about the domain at hand but also need to know what particular American companies want. There's no one answer to it; what the bureaucrats do for a living is make judgments about what's needed and what's not.

A big company that hires the best lobbyists (the ones with the most experience and the most contacts) definitely has a leg up, but the regulators aren't solely at their beck and call. (Usually. It's not that regulatory capture doesn't exist, but the vast majority of day-to-day dull grind of government really is just ordinary people trying to make good policy.) Often, small companies band together to hire a decent lobbyist; DC is chock full of organizations with names like "Vegan Caterers of America" and "Society of Diesel Mechanics" that don't have tons of money but they do show up at regulators to make their cases on matters nobody cares about except them.

I'm not really here to defend the system or make the case for it one way or another. It's just that DC works very differently from the way it's portrayed on TV (including the news), in ways that are simultaneously more interesting and excruciatingly boring. I don't have any specific info on this case, but it does sound like exactly the kind of hodgepodge that results from making a lot of little decisions rather than one big sweeping gesture.
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