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> 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.

I don't think the logic leads to this conclusion. His calculus may have been that the prorogation would be more likely to be successfully challenged if it _clearly_ cut parliament out of the process altogether. By leaving some time for them to sit ahead of his October 31st deadline he likely hoped that the prorogation would stand, he could negotiate a deal, downplay the possiblity of an extension, and then force a vote to approve the deal as the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit given the short timeline.
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> "If node is so fast why does my PHP site feel way faster than this React+Redux+Node thingy? An inquiry into what 'fast' means."

this actually a true statement.

I probably spent a thousand hours deeply mocking PHP, but everytime I use their website I'm shocked how lean everything is.

Given the infinte amount of brilliant work done on js VMs and HTTP2 or whatever, I think there's something to be learned there.
See:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
Any version of this sans paywall?
Did this limit the law to search engine's again?

We've seen it used against newspapers. I worry about that.
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Eh, it was designed for a different system configuration. Apple was betting on multi-GPU architectures when they designed that thing in 2012/2013, but then tech didn't really follow that path.

The CPUs and multiple GPUs put out (relatively) equal heat, so they could make the single, big cooler work. But when the world went back to a single, big, hot GPU, it pushed things _just_ out of whack enough that it wasn't worthwhile to continue down that path.
It's only available in the US right now. Sorry...hope to expand soon!
They always do these domains for settlements. It should probably be on .gov but there doesn't seem to have been many issues before.
> which would then publish them

Only if the newspapers themselves allowed it. Newspapers could suppress public criticism that came their way through this channel if they so chose.
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Loved the message. Just like you can't run away from yourself (trust me), humanity can't run away from its collective self.

My favorite book about this is Lucifer's Hammer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer

Not perfect but certainly echoes the article's theme that we'll still be in society, even after a catastrophe, and will have to work within it.
I don’t understand point 3. Why would the WTO tariff rate matter, are they not maximums? Couldn’t the UK just set import tariffs to 0 for a period?
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My wife killed herself because of Chronic Pain.
Her saga is required reading at Duke Medical School and has become part of the documentary Pain Warriors, to be released soon. The documentary covers the lives of those miss treated by the Medial Establishment, including doctors that treat Chronic Pain.

Those with Chronic Pain are being left to suffer because of abusers. In April of 2019 the CDC stated that their "guidelines" are being miss applied. Sadly the damage is already done.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0424-advises-misapp...

"CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
Some policies, practices attributed to the Guideline are inconsistent with its recommendations.

In a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) advise against misapplication of the Guideline that can risk patient health and safety.

CDC commends efforts by healthcare providers and systems, quality improvement organizations, payers, and states to improve opioid prescribing and reduce opioid misuse and overdose. However, some policies and practices that cite the Guideline are inconsistent with, and go beyond, its recommendations. In the NEJM commentary, the authors outline examples of misapplication of the Guideline, and highlight advice from the Guideline that is sometimes overlooked but is critical for safe and effective implementation of the recommendations.

CDC is raising awareness about the following issues that could put patients at risk:..."
The article claims that inside games "most communication is through text". This makes me think they haven't seen very many real gamers. There's no mention of voice chat's extensive use inside games for everything from gameplay to homework advice from buddies. Pretty clueless.
> At the time, what 'leave' looked like was deliberately left open, by both sides.

This is not true. There is a video with at least Cameron, Osborne, Hillary Benn, Andrew Adonis, John Major, Peter Mandelson and possibly others that compiles some of their statements during the referendum campaign. I cannot find this video as it is either hidden or not on YouTube, but it pops up on Twitter from time to time. Each of them makes categorically clear that leaving means leaving the institutions, single market etc. etc. in terms that very much describe what the Remain camp has termed (in a manner that would make Orwell proud) a 'hard Brexit' - indeed, the very point of their calamitous prognostications was aimed at striking fear into the electorate in order that they vote to remain.

There were voices in the Remain campaign clearly describing the hardest Brexit imaginable specifically in order to deter people from voting for it. To deny this in the face of overwhelming evidence is well, I'm not sure what to think of it but it's not honest argument.
About 15% of NPR funding comes from government grants.
What's particularly fun is that there seem to be some rumblings that this might be used to disrupt the Conservative annual conference by making the House of Commons sit during the period when it's held next week. Hopefully MPs won't be daft enough to do this; it would do immense damage to both British politics and trust in the judiciary.
It's not just conservatives. I'm an old school, anti-identity politics leftist and feminist, and the modern "left" is more concerned with using the right language than having the correct analysis or actually defending basic rights.
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Will Google fire WSJ over this? Deplatform them from YouTube and from news.google.com?
"No tragic yet convenient event will allow us to discard our complex, messy, and ever-changing social reality and live out our rugged individualistic fantasy."

"...it will be empathy, generosity, and courage that we need to survive. Kindness and fairness will be more valuable than any survival skill"

If you're interested in a concrete discussion of what a collapse may look like this is not for you. He says it won't hurt to know survival skills and that mainly you should learn to be kind (as if you missed that lesson in pre-k). One thing is for certain; he's definitely a paragon of morality. I mean.. you can't write an article like that without being totally rock solid.
I don't think he has the money to pay me the real value (maybe he has, but in that case he'd never agree to pay me that. even the sum like $2000 would be a problem) so I'd prefer to split it - I'll retain a small equity stake along with some money. That's the thing I've told Jim I'm flexible in & willing to accommodate, but Jim simply doesn't think so
> I just search through ProQuest and Google Scholar for research journals during 1990-2000 and I didn't find much at all that points towards significant risks of increased prescribing of these drugs.

And how many of those studies were funded by the institutions pushing the products being studied? This type of conflict-of-interest / research-funding is nothing new, cigarette companies arguably pioneered this practice decades before.

> But it's only in the last few years that the scope of the issue has really come to light.

Sure, because of a non-ignorable problem. I'm advocating for skepticism, investigative journalism, and research, rather than parroting what industry says is true. I'm seeking reporting, not cheap public-relations pieces.

Instead of waiting for a problem, how about we ask questions of how things might fail before it does.
Also note that this might not be a one way street. They might use brain machine interfaces to stimulate your brain according to the ads you are watching. E.g. you watch ads for beer and you get the feeling of beer taste on your mouth or you watch ads for bread and you get the smell of freshly baked bread, etc. Or when you are in a store, the implant will give you a serotonin kick when you foveate on a specific product (whose manufacturer paid for that kick). etc.

It's creepy af. But 20 years ago when you told someone about the privacy intrusions of smartphones, people would've been creeped out as well so I'm pessimist and saying it will come.
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I can't tell if you're being sincere or not, but I'll assume the best and respond sincerely.

Let's say you have two candidates, one white and one black. In IBM's case, it was more likely they had hundreds of white candidates and a handful of black candidates.

Now assume your hiring managers or practices are racist, which we know IBM's were (as were most companies' at that point, when it would still be 20 years before racial discrimination became illegal).

Finally, assume that the average scores of the black and white engineers are similar. It shouldn't really matter, because (as we've seen from LSAT scores, Google's HR, and other sources) no test has been developed that's a good measure of future productivity.

In this situation, you're never going to hire the black engineer. Even if you yourself aren't racist, you know you likely have colleagues who are. You see hiring the black engineer as risky.

If the black engineer instead has excellent test scores, you as a non-racist hiring manager get to cover your ass.

Does that make sense? Coaching on tests was a way of counteracting the racism. It had no bearing on whether the candidates were less qualified in this case.
Customers shouldn’t have to be on the phone for days to solve a bank’s problem. Credit fraud (please don’t help banks by calling it identity theft) should be handled like American Express handles credit card fraud. I see a fraudulent charge on my bill, I call up AMEX one time and tell them this charge is fraud, and that’s it! They take it from there, restore the balance, do the investigation and charge back the vendor. They usually ask that you at least try to get in touch with the vendor first and that’s reasonable.

Maybe I’ve been lucky but every time I’ve had to do a chargeback it’s been this smooth.

Credit reporting should be the same. I should get a statement in the mail every month from these agencies showing all credit activity and inquiries, and have a simple and painless way to dispute fraudulent data.

I should also be able to opt out and not participate in the credit reporting system but that’s a topic for a different thread.
Good point. Presumably they're fixing versions, even companies on public registries should do that to avoid re-licensing issues, but it'd be an unreasonable legal & security risk.

I guess my broader thought was that PyPi is a more reliable free offering than NPM because it's not focused on a 'premium' version for the biggest users. But that's different than AWS - presumably they're sponsoring it in a broader "making development accessible is good for AWS" sense.
A president would cost more I bet.
Except that's not actually what science is doing.

1) "We need to recycle"—We do! It's very important. Unfortunately, recycling a lot of materials is not currently profitable (or profitable enough? I'm a bit unclear on that part), so a depressing amount of stuff we put in the recycling goes several steps along the chain, then gets thrown in the trash anyway—or possibly dumped somewhere illegally. This is not a problem with science, or recycling; it's a problem with uncaring corporations and externalized costs.

2) "Use solar power!"—Do. I've only ever heard the claim that solar uses as much carbon in its construction as it saves over its lifetime from unsourced posts on the Internet (which, yeah, who am I to throw stones? but still...) who clearly had a pre-existing bias against everything that liberals like. Every reputable study I've ever seen linked regarding the total cost of solar puts it much lower than its output for modern panels. There is some concern regarding some of the components—the more unusual metals, for instance—but the main solution to that, to the best of my understanding, is better recycling. (See #1.)

Basically, what science, scientists, and good science reporting does is tell you "if you do X, Y will happen with Z% probability". The reason you see all this contradictory advice is that most of it (on both sides) doesn't actually come from scientists—it comes from the media, imperfectly reporting, and in some cases maliciously misreporting, what scientists say...and often what people who aren't actually scientists say, claiming that it is science.
I'd do this for my fav podcasts.
The same could have been said of steel and rail barons.
I just tried it and it worked so well I started laughing maniacally
Show HN: Instead of printing new business cards I decided to come up with an app
Companies employ people, but who do they work in service of?
There is general lack of basic scientific knowledge for those working in the media and too much cut & paste.

However, Doctors should have known better - opioids are not some new fangled treatment for goodness sake[1]

Doctors are highly trained, highly paid and their failure is central to the opioid crisis.

[1] In fact they are one of the first modern medicines - a wonder drug - then people realized the downsides.
That was over 100 years ago....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum#History
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Opium...
That's because the newspaper and the search engine have very different kinds of activities when it comes to processing data.

In 2014, this is how the Court explains it (my emphasis):

"35 In this connection, it should be pointed out that the processing of personal data carried out in the context of the activity of a search engine can be distinguished from and is additional to that carried out by publishers of websites, consisting in loading those data on an internet page.

36 Moreover, it is undisputed that that activity of search engines plays a decisive role in the overall dissemination of those data in that it renders the latter accessible to any internet user making a search on the basis of the data subject’s name, including to internet users who otherwise would not have found the web page on which those data are published.

37 Also, the organisation and aggregation of information published on the internet that are effected by search engines with the aim of facilitating their users’ access to that information may, when users carry out their search on the basis of an individual’s name, result in them obtaining through the list of results a structured overview of the information relating to that individual that can be found on the internet enabling them to establish a more or less detailed profile of the data subject."

[...]

"80 It must be pointed out at the outset that, as has been found in paragraphs 36 to 38 of the present judgment, processing of personal data, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, carried out by the operator of a search engine is liable to affect significantly the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data when the search by means of that engine is carried out on the basis of an individual’s name, since that processing enables any internet user to obtain through the list of results a structured overview of the information relating to that individual that can be found on the internet — information which potentially concerns a vast number of aspects of his private life and which, without the search engine, could not have been interconnected or could have been only with great difficulty — and thereby to establish a more or less detailed profile of him. Furthermore, the effect of the interference with those rights of the data subject is heightened on account of the important role played by the internet and search engines in modern society, which render the information contained in such a list of results ubiquitous (see, to this effect, Joined Cases C‑509/09 and C‑161/10 eDate Advertising and Others EU:C:2011:685, paragraph 45)."

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
I think a collapse of civilization will be hard on women yes. I'm not misogynistic and am an advocate of equal rights for all sexes but there are hard realizations about the sort of behavior we would exhibit in the wrong sort of circumstances.
If it's profitable for anyone to resell, that implies the company priced below the market price and there would be a shortage without scalpers. So the company is unable to meet the needs of its customers in any event. Scalpers just make it somewhat more efficient.
Or a child
A union is different from a church, club, or being a consumer some place because it is at your job and is part of how you generate income.

Non-union employees get the same pay raises union employees do, a rational actor in a non-compulsory union shop would not join the union because they don't want to pay dues. That is why joining a union is compulsory.
Yep, my experience as well. There must be a better way. I think we're warming up for a war since browsers (Chrome and Safari at least) have slowly started making it harder to block ads, which I think will becoming a creeping normality.
Is leaving the room during a television commercial break also stealing?
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And there are statements by the leave campaign saying that single market membership was on the table. Different parts of both campaigns saying different things to different audiences.

And please don't accuse people of dishonest argument here. We don't do that.
A forum for the curmudgeonly old Senior Engineers of the world, regardless of where they work. I imagine this is what the IETF mailing lists look like.
News' intended purpose isn't just about speaking out against power. It's about providing a means for people to obtain information about current events -- political, medical, whatever. It's supposed to help augment your education.

You know, the same education which is thoroughly gutted in America.
Sorry about that. If it makes you feel any better, you're not the first, although the first time I just kind of dismissed it as my friend not paying attention.

I've reordered the fields so hopefully that doesn't happen again and updated your username to williamjackson.

As you noticed there is no way to update profile settings for now but I'm working on adding that!
Yes, he could do that now quite easily since right now it sounds like the app isn't worth much under generally accepted valuation methodologies
That's why there are elections, the vast majority of the electorate really isn't equipped to deal with all the details and ramifications of what a big decision like this entails: therefore we choose representatives whose ideas we agree with so that they, along with experts of choice, can deep-dive into the consequences of each decision and make appropriate choices. For example: ask me about agricultural policy and you'll find out why I should have no business in making any sort of significant decisions about it.

It's the same reason we go to a doctor when we're sick or to an architect when we want to design a house: we go to someone whose job is to know how to do something properly.

In the Swiss model you'll never find single, completely vague and as wide-reaching questions like the one that lead to brexit.
I’m sensitive to bad language used out of context. I’ll admit it.

Bad language in my brain wiring triggers fight or flight responses in me because in the wrong context, it sounds f’ing aggressive and violates all kinds of gentlemen’s codes.

It’s not the words themselves though. I can watch standup comedy with lots of bad language for hours. Another example is Jon Favreau’s character in Chef who curses liberally but his personality is so teddy bear like it doesn’t do anything to me. Joe Rogan? No problem.

But if I meet someone in a corporate setting who looks stern (especially a young insecure guy) and starts to let fly with bad language, I’m likely to cut the person down — because my brain interprets it as aggressive posturing and puts me in a mood to attack this person.

I need to work on my responses (I’m not justifying them), but I also want to share so that folks know how bad language can come across in the wrong context.
> Haven't we already reproduced existing bacteria/DNA from atoms which has allowed us to more easily study gene expression?

I don't think so. I think they just took a small existing bacteria and by pruning its genome came to something which was minimally viable.
An absolutely avoidable problem.

On the day the Indian govt announced demonitization, the first phone calls I made were to economists and to people with actual experience working in the hinterlands.

Because the fact that was true in 1990, 2000, and the day of demonitization was that more than 70% of India transacts through cash.

This has never changed. Demonitization meant that for those people, the economy didn’t just stall, it stopped.

However, people are resilient and the belief was that people would recover.

Except that the govt followed up with a new tax regime that applied to everyone - including these cash driven workers.

These are people who don’t have electricity, and aren’t even necessarily literate.

I think most people can appreciate the cost to their razor thin margins when the costs of compliance, translation, formal accounting and more get tacked on.

The part that most people forget, because this govt has superb PR, was that before The elections the largest protests by farmers was taking place in Delhi.

Farmers commit suicide in india at some rate measurable in multiple dead farmers per day. It was bad before and was getting worse.

However this was obscured A few days later, by India’s assault on terrorist camps in Pakistan territory.

The dramatic and muscular response changed the focus- people went from complaining to “I should endure, see what my country is doing to my enemies.”

In short : the signs have always been there, they have never been hidden, and it’s likely the relatively more privileged classes who were unaware of what was happening.
DNSSEC doesn't "essentially escrow keys with governments".

It's exactly as true to say that DANE gave Gaddafi ownership of bit.ly's CA as to say that today Boris Johnson owns the CA for slither.io - and as ridiculous. Back when you first started claiming this the Ten Blessed Methods weren't even a thing. You're complaining about the inadequate back door lock on a house that has the front door propped open.

I work for an outfit that buys passive DNS data (among other things) and all our suppliers agree that DoH makes no difference to their roadmaps - because they don't care who asked, only what the query and answer are. Is Vixie doing something vastly different? Maybe so but you've offered no evidence what that could be.
> not to have anything others would want.

Like food or the tools necessary to get food? Kind of hard to survive without that.

No, I think the OP is absolutely right. Humans are social animals, and large groups of humans are more powerful than small ones. Those who survive will be those who join the best groups. And the best way to ensure you're in a good group is to use your abilities to shape your group into a good group.
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