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I don't know about the US situation, but the recent EU proposal is often ridiculed for being just a "plastic straw ban".

Actually the "single-use plastics directive proposal [1]", part of a greater plastic strategy [2], is not only about plastic straws:

a) The ban will apply to plastic cotton buds, cutlery, plates, straws, drink stirrers and balloon sticks. These items represent 86% of all single-use plastic items on European beaches, and about half of all plastic marine litter washed up on European beaches.

b) Member States will have to reduce the use of plastic food containers and drinks cups.

c) Producers will help cover the costs of waste management and clean-up. The industry will also be given incentives to develop less polluting alternatives for these products.

d) Member States will be obliged to collect 90% of single-use plastic drinks bottles by 2025.

e) Member States will be obliged to raise consumers' awareness about the negative impact of littering of single-use plastics and fishing gear as well as about the available re-use systems and waste management options for all these products.

f) Fishing gear is also addressed:
"up to now, ports have been able to charge fishermen for bringing retrieved abandoned, lost or disposed of fishing gear ashore over and above their normal fee. The Commission’s proposal to revise the Port Reception Facilities Directive (COM(2018)33 final) removes this disincentive. However, ports' costs for expanding facilities and running them could find their way back into the port fee; thus increasing the overall cost for fishers.
This is where the Extended Producer Responsibility comes in. Under this scheme, fishing net producers take on the responsibility (and the cost) for managing fishing gear plastic once it is landed. So, this will reduce port costs for fishers, particularly in small fishing ports, and it will accelerate the development of a dedicated waste stream for fishing gear waste. [3]"

You could argue that this regulation is not enough.

You could argue that the ban should not focus on the most occuring single-use plastics that wash up on European beaches but should focus on the most occurring (micro)plastic-types in the oceans.

I would say this is a perfectly fine complementory step in the right direction.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/single...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/plastic_waste.htm

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/new-proposal-will-tackle-mari...
I drink red wine 1-2 times a month. Most of the time I get the dosage right and I feel like Skynet for 3-4 hours.

But I do it rarely, don't want to ever be dependent on alcohol.
Same as the US. You pay tax on the valuation difference when you exercise. and AFAIK you have to exercise before you sell on any primary or secondary market.
This is one of the conversations where the difference between English and British actually matters. I don't think you're talking about the small number of English people living in Northern Ireland here are you? And I'm pretty sure the UK is the one that might mess up the deal rather than England (don't forget Wales voted to leave too).
Is repatriation to mainland UK not a possibility?
Hundreds and thousands of pounds? Worldwide, it meant replacing wholesale hardware and software systems and exceeded billions - it was just distributed throughout the world economy.
Cyanoacrylate works well with plastics that it dissolves. So it's like solvent weld plus glue. Polystyrene, polycarbonate and PVC, for example. Or materials with hydroxyl groups, with which it reacts. Such as paper, wood, silk, rayon, nylon and kevlar. But not polyethylene.

And not polystyrene foam, because it melts it. My favorite for that is Gorilla Glue. I don't know what's in it. But it has something that reacts with water (which is the catalyst) and also the same materials that cyanoacrylate works well with. But it doesn't melt the foam, just melds with it.

What bond failed in the sink, if I may ask?
Sadly that's my feeling too. He's already publicly said he would rather 'die in a ditch' than ask for the extension
AFAIK, dark mode can save energy on OLED based screens (due to pixels being completely turned off) but not on LCD-based screens. However, lowering brightness should probably always lower energy usage.
Yeah, I liked it and used it when possible. Especially on the app screen where I could dive right into a specific in-app action. It's what nudged me into getting a 6s instead of another Android phone.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to see the Scottish government make it easy to get citizenship, at least in the short term. It would be an easy PR win to show large numbers of Brits requesting Scottish citizenship.
That's true, if you have a phone you can use the sensors on it to do dead reckoning in the interim. I'm not a mocap expert, but this seems very doable! It would be a great idea.
I didn't want to make my post needlessly long, but the article continues,

> In contrast, American employees typically pay a 0% to 20% rate on capital gains when options are redeemed, though they may have to pay additional levies when they’re exercised, depending on the timing and the type of equity incentive program. Germany and 14 other countries, including Sweden and the Netherlands, are more burdensome than the U.S. regarding options, according to a 2018 study by Index Ventures, a venture capital firm in London and Silicon Valley.
Exactly what I've meant: You don't understand how hard and rare it is, so somebody can afford to be an entrepreneur. It isn't about running costs of businesses, but the ability to support yourself and your responsibilities, it is about being able to run your HOME, while you work until your business take off.

Just check the background of the people who founded those companies you enlisted and you will see what I mean. It isn't the average European.
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I understand parent's point of view. Look at the top 9 richest people in the world who combined have equal wealth to the poorest 4 billion people. You will find on that list (Bezos, Bill Gates and Zuckerberg) and one could say their companies were a startup at some point.

There's no doubt startups create wealth but I'd argue it also creates inequality. When the EU wants to tax bonuses I believe they're efficiently fighting inequality.

This small article is an example of what I'm trying to explain. "Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/02/los-angeles-...
The fact that iPad never had 3D Touch adds another argument as to why developers never truly adopted the feature.
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Great job on completing it - looks fun! Any comments on troubles you ran into and surprises on the way?
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I disagree. I'm not a social media user, and yet I love TikTok, and have even posted a video there. I like to view it for about 15 minutes right before falling asleep. My wife and I get a lot of laughs out of the videos together.
Yes, a motorcycle helmet (even an open face one) is far more protective than a worksite hard hat. That’s part of why they cost hundreds of dollars compared to $10 or whatever.
Because one can overwrite the struct with arbitrary content, and that after the function that corrupts the struct is called, it executed a function that lives inside that struct, so the attacker can redefine the function to call out to the system (after a few other tricks - I think)
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> Is there something in particular necessary about animal protein, that it gets a distinct category from just protein in general

Pretty worrying that people don't know that the only real sources of essential acids critical to humans are from seafood, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)

They aren't optional and the body sucks at synthesising them.
If we crash out without a deal the case for a new referendum becomes a lot easier. It's a fundamental change to the Union and completely negates a large part of what the no campaign claimed where the benefits of staying together. I do think if we get a deal or just remain in the EU that Indyref2 will be much harder to sell.
For fuel synthesis, you have two principle processes: carbon sourcing, and actually sythesizing the fuel.

Once you've got the coal sourced, most of the rest of the WWII process is directly applicable to modern carbon-capture methods.
Yep, that's pretty much the aim :)
Especially because these are not even the same species as us.
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I personally wouldn't use Unity again. I've run into so much trouble and so many little bugs. An example: just yesterday I updated Unity itself (a minor patch upgrade), and it broke half the links in my project, I had to manually downgrade some official unity packages to get it to compile, etc. I also find the fact that C# is garbage collected to be very annoying - in a real-time application, I just want total control over when stuff is allocated and deallocated. Even in a simple game such as Astro Golf, I spent ages tracking down silly allocations that lead to stutter-inducing GC.
Unity physics is also a right PITA - I could go on and on..
simple answer - government
>But you you have very high social insurance,

iirc, bulgarian social tax was something like 14.5% - retirement, 5% medical.
But the best part is: there is max amount for social and it's a joke - less than 1540 euro. Above that it's just not taxed.
Postgres is object-relational database, so it can certainly be used in such a way (and I use it like that most of the time).

But this is quite a niche usage of PG and there are little to zero tools supporting it.
I sometimes see biodegradable packing peanuts that resemble tasteless Cheese puffs used as alternative. So much better, I wonder why the styrofoam puffs are even still allowed.

Another side note, look at this sign that I've seen aboard vessels: https://vesselplacards.com/product/garbage-overboard-marpol-...

It basically states "Don't throw garbage overboard, You could be breaking the law" as if it being illegal should be the only reason not to dump your waste in the environment.
Small tweak: Executives at the behest of shareholders instruct managers to replace workers.
It's important to believe the message and also dont believe the hype. I think the metaphor is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yes, exactly. Have to pay $$ to remove that splash screen logo!
Nobody is conflating them but they are de facto identical in terms of results. The physical forcing has been replaced by social pressure and guilt tripping and they are just as effective into getting you to work more hours as were the physical tortures of the times long past.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-json.html
Adams was friends with and wrote for Monty Python (he cameos in a few episodes) and was also script editor for Dr Who. In fact the more story-led elements of HHGTG are actually bits of unused stuff he wrote for the show.

Once you think of Hitch Hiker's as a series of Monty Python sketches hung around a few Dr Who episodes, rather than a traditional story with a beginning, middle and end, the whole thing makes more sense. Well, as much as it can.
I think we need to refer to the Unix philosophy, each program does one thing well. Make an English to English translation tool. I once had an English student use the word "aubergine". I had never heard the word aubergine before so I corrected him, "no, that's an eggplant." A North-American-English vs European-English war broke out. Lorries crashed into 18-wheelers, rubbish bins and trash cans caught on fire, friends and mates turned against each other. When the dust settled those who remained wanted to pay their respects to the fallen; some people lined up, other people queued.
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"X" really is the name of Generation X. It was a response to the feeling of being lost and unnoticed after the attention paid to baby boomers. Some of that was just youthful disaffectation: "oh, look, all of the good jobs are filled by older people who don't understand me, and my culture isn't as cool as the classics they grew up with". And some is the lack of a big defining event (basically, war) that focused culture on some specific thing.

There was no Generation W. Only the Baby Boom (starting in 1944 and going on a decade or so) was an actual demographic event, followed by a smaller "baby bust" and an even smaller "baby boom echo" that corresponds vaguely to GenX. Subsequent "generations" are pretty much exclusively in the minds of marketers and social media.

So to the degree that Generation X is a notion worthy of a name, "X" is the name they gave themselves, following Douglas Coupland's book, which didn't coin the term but attracted a lot of attention. The book was mostly about dotcom culture, and "dotcom" would be a better name for it since that was the defining event of that generation (if it had one at all).

"Z" is now entering the same phase: graduating into the world of work, hating entry-level jobs, and not yet having its big cultural moment. If there is one at all.
Yeah it has gotten worse. You should run an adblocker on your iOS device.
My experience:

- Really hard and costly to start a new company.
- Really hard to contract people. Lots of requirements and really costly.
- Lots of silly laws that don't protect customers data. Things like GDPR popups, etc.

Basically, those 2 points.
On a related note, MIT seems to have ported xv6 to riscv.

https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv
Nature is pretty damn cruel and selfish at times. Just because it utterly sucks doesn't mean it isn't natural - similarly healthy has the question of healthy for who and when?

Illness in herd animals is healthy for wolves by making them easier to kill without injury.

The industrial revolution saw major growing pains and destitution but raised standards of living greatly.
Really funny to see how this had been an overwhelmingly popular idea on Hacker News, until a progressive Democrat (and a woman!) voiced it, then suddenly many here have "concerns"
Uh, that's embarassing. Completely missed this (since two years... :-( ). Thank you.
Yea. They hand-waved over the key part of the RCE. I know they exploited the function call in the struct, but how exactly did they re-write the program counter to point to the address of the system call? They mention that's another vulnerability not part of this article. Also, in the demo, they read a WhatsApp DB file as if it was plain-text from the terminal. I thought WhatsApp DB files were encrypted? How was 'more' able to just read the file?
Surprising to not see Zenefits in the list
Wow, surprised to hear this! I had assumed in a project that large and longstanding, most of the bugs would have been smoothed out.
You've already been taxed on the investment principal. Not the returns that you're getting on the investment. By your logic, the capital-gains-tax should be eliminated entirely because its double taxation, which is a ridiculous idea.
> just because nothing happened

There were substantial problems, but because of the high level of alert, they were fixed very rapidly.

> People identified the problem and worked diligently to get it fixed before shit hit the fan

This, a thousand times.
Needed, I would say yes, definitely. Having controls is really a core tenet of science.

I wouldn't really think it's any more unethical than any other clinical trial for any other disease. The whole point is you don't know if the drug/treatment works, so I don't think it's unethical to withhold it. All participants are informed that there is a chance they'll receive placebo treatment as well, no one is being tricked. The point of the trial is to test the treatment, not to just fix a small group of people before the big roll-out.
Even as someone who hasn't had to deal with memory allocation since college CS classes many years ago, I found this explainer to be easy to follow and enlightening. Well done!

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I started learning vim/emacs two years ago. I don't regret it at all and I use them both daily, even as IDEs. They're fantastic tools.
> don't forget Wales voted to leave too

This is debatable. It was very close and the large numbers of English retirees in parts of Wales that made it seem that Wales voted to leave. Brexit is very much an English project.
And not only did it work well, but those who knew about it, loved it dearly and used it regularly.
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but right now NI belongs to UK against the will of a lot of Northern Ireland. All the border counties e.g. have voted for Sinn Fein for UK parliament. Possibly those counties need to join the republic?
JavaScript isn't a very good programming language. Just because I can develop in it doesn't mean I want to.
I'm pretty sure the plastic coastal waste we're talking about it still in the ocean, so I'm a bit confused by the distinction you're making.

Care to explain more?
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It depends. If the labour market opens to Ukraine for example, it will have a positive net effect for sure. Why it doesn't open I don't know.
This is so insane, I had no idea such a thing was possible:

16 vs 32 bit
It is possible to use 32-bit instructions in the real-address mode, they just need to be marked with address-size and operand-size prefixes. The -m16 option for clang/gcc, and .code16 directive in GNU assembler, do exactly that. The resulting code is 32-bit, only marked everywhere with those prefixes. It's not compatible with actual 16-bit CPUs.

"Unfortunately the 32-bit addresses still cannot exceed the boundary of the segment (65535), otherwise they'll trigger an exception. QEMU doesn't emulate this behaviour, so it's useful to occasionally test with Bochs."
The great thing about spacemacs/evil is that generally all the standard emacs bindings work how you'd expect them to. I can still M-x and get access to everything emacs.
I'd look for a new job and quit. But it's my own opinion, you know your life better.

As you worked before 6 years on your job and tech is a good market, I'd just mention that when I do an interview:

- I've worked 6 years on that company... I wanted to try something new, but shortly after I've joined, the CTO who hired me quit and I no longe see a great future for X company. This is why I'm applying to your company, which I believe has a good product because of X Y Z etc.

I believe if you explain it well, it could be even positive to you in a new interview for a new job, because you show them that you are quitting for your own good, with positive intentions, because also what you wrote here tells me what you are doing it for a good reason. I'd hire you if I could :-)
Yep, that's why I was careful to say 'a chance'.

I remember this being a key point of the 2014 referendum - the 'Yes' side seemed to be overly optimistic about the process of joining the EU.

However if Scotland has already been dragged out of the EU against the will of most of its people, it changes the terms of that debate quite a bit. A chance of joining the EU seems better than being part of a country that likely won't rejoin for many years (if ever).
If the Liberal Democrats back down on Corbyn running a caretaker government we could very well see a second referendum that would more than likely return a remain result.

It certainly doesn't settle things, we're going to have these issues for years to come, but may take us away from the cliff edge.
> We need to first let PC jumps to an intermediate gadget,

IMO ROP gadgets are terribly clever. Since you can't just execute new malicious code but you do have control over which instruction to execute next, you have to scour the executable and its libraries for any content that would have the effects that you require.

Take a look at the output from ROPGadget [1] (look at "ROP Chain Generation" screenshot) to see an example of how it works.

[1] https://github.com/JonathanSalwan/ROPgadget
It is interesting to see the donations to the Clinton Foundation have dropped significantly since the 2016 election. [1] Its almost as if the gravy train has been derailed.

1. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/nov/11/money-to-cli...
Performance is only part of it. Using a single language for the whole stack is very valuable to a lot of people. I think that's why Node gained popularity because many developers were using JS for the frontend so why not use the same language for the backend as well?
There's also a question of why the government wouldn't continually try to maintain this revenue stream if they were indeed making profits, as opposed to only using it as a last ditch effort to contain widespread damage?
I guess everyone who cares about privacy should run his own DNS server/cache somewhere on the internet. Same as mail, really.
You might be interested in this paper (of mine) which predicted most of the results of the paper in the thread title.

osf.io/k497u
More or less, yes.

Straigh molecular hydrogen is brutally difficult to work with. It is hard to store (high pressures and/or low temperatures), bulky, embrittles metals, and is violently explosive.

Synthetic analogues of fossil fuels (kerosene, petrol) are chemically virtually identical to what we've been using for the past century of powered flight (and should actually be cleaner/purer). There are few unknowns, safety is quite high, and the storage, handling, and combustion properties are well-understood and excellent for the application.

Powering FT fuel synthesis via photovoltaic or other solar processes could certainly work.
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Except that’s not improving the planet even a bit.

Arguably it raises awareness and the shard belief in at least the principle of individual responsibility. Against the overwhelming tide of the "Fuck it, I'll be dead before this shit starts to really come down on our heads anyway" which would otherwise be the reigning default.