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You’d think that an armed protest group would mean that the government reacts with _less_ force? Rather than simply deploying an appropriate amount of force to stop them? Because the simple fact is that the government will win in the game of “who has more guns and power”, just as it would in the USA, and there is no way a government would set a precedent that all you need to make it capitulate is wave a gun around.

I’m not saying that the outcome would be the protesters would not be successful, in saying that the government would roll in the tanks immediately and without hesitation.
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Personally this slides from a near-perfect setup to a completely-awful setup once I need to leave my house and drive to an office (or luxury condo, apparently) to do this, for literally no reason.

I'd also reckon a typical remote team probably has more of the routine social interaction some other comments here describe as personally beneficial than this arrangement.
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> equity without commitment

The guy was perfectly willing to stay for the long-haul.

> weeks of remote work without formal agreement

Taking people at their word is "entitled"?

> a quick cash out over adding value to the company

The guy was faithfully performing all the duties assigned to him. Is he drinking the company kool-aid and devoting his life to his company? Thankfully no. Your employer is not your family, nor is it a cult.

Is the author naive? Maybe. Opinionated? Definitely but with good reason - the director was later fired, how often does that happen. Entitled? I see nothing of the sort.
In many cases we've found that RDPing to a system across the country to browse the web was a significantly smoother experience than trying to browse the web locally on that same connection. RDP is astoundingly good at what it does.
This was debunked last time it went around. People don't understand coincidences.

Johnson has lived a long life. Buses are common. He's painted buses for a long time, and he used a bus in his Brexit campaign.

Johnson says a lot of things; that's been his job for decades.

This conspiracy is the same as the now that says Facebook was recording everything you say and putting it in ads.
That boils down to two main questions:

1. How do X11 clients render using your GPU, like using OpenGL or Vulkan?

2. How does an X11 server talk to your graphics card to get stuff on screen?

Clients render through a magic secret backdoor. libGL.so / the Vulkan ICD, provided by the vendor talks to their graphics driver, and then there's typically an Xorg extension to do the buffer handoff. In the open-source world, the libGL.so is mesa, it talks to the kernel using a kernel API called "DRM" (Direct Rendering Manager) to render your graphics to a buffer, and then the resulting rendered buffer is shoved across and composited using an Xorg extension known as DRI3, which is initialized as part of the video driver. Most of the open source xf86-video-* drivers support DRI3.

For the latter question, the X11 server has a series of video drivers that can take the buffers you have and show them on screen. I won't go into the exact details of how these buffers are composited (it's not very pretty, but the typical approach these days is the server itself using GL the same way a client would to composite the buffers together), but ultimately a final composited scanout buffer comes out the other side, which is sent to the screen through some driver-specific mechanism. In the open-source world, this mechanism is called "Kernel Mode-Setting", or "KMS", and it's part of the kernel DRM APIs mentioned above.
For car parts, where are you getting your prices? Here in the US, there's usually online sellers of OEM parts that sell for much less than dealerships.

Of course, even these can be pretty high, depending on the part in question. A lot of the parts you listed are things that should not ever be replaced, unless you have a wreck. If that happens, then part cost shouldn't be your concern, because insurance is covering it (hopefully, the other party's insurance).

And finally, the used parts market is alive and well. Any of those parts can be easily found on Ebay for a fraction of the new OEM price.

And on top of that, many of those parts have Chinese-made aftermarket replacements, which cost much less, and may be acceptable quality.

As for the "smart" rearview mirror (I think you're talking about auto-dimming mirrors here), my Mazda came with one from the factory, but buying it afterwards costs about $300, certainly not 1k.

Generally speaking, if the car is fairly new, you shouldn't be replacing parts like that except through insurance. If the car is old and you're trying to restore it, you should be looking for used parts. And if you have a new car and you're trying to add all the nice options to make it like the top-end trim model, then you're doing it wrong: you need to get the car from the factory with the options you want instead of trying to add them later, because that never makes any economic sense.
The history of Arduino is pretty shady [1]; and from all accounts they’re barely treading water these days. There is a glut of well-documented microcontrollers targeted at hobbyists. Most are at similar price points with far more advanced capabilities.

They created the market, but have been largely unable to capitalize on it. Which is basically par for the course for Italian companies.

[1] https://arduinohistory.github.io/
OurWork ?

More like Amazon Workplace Services, if Amazon does it.
And here we go.. Funfortunately, most of the misinformation I hear is presented as entertainment. I am fine with it, if like SNL it is clearly labelled as satire, and not done as if it was news (as one network it seems to me often does). Sadly, there are many who watch that network, and shows like its shows, who believe what they are hearing to be the gospel truth. This is to the point of a man arming himself with an assault rifle (another problem, but I won't digress more than that) and shooting up an innocent pizza parlor that the entertainment show in question accused of some of the most heinous crimes in our judicial system.

We put labels at the bottom of cigarettes to warn people. Why can't we put a header at the bottom of such programs: "Satire, Not News, Not Factual".

Btw, I would love to see that banner on the bottom of The Daily Show as much as I would on The Rush Limbaugh Show, as both sides of the Red/Blue divide are guilty of this to some extent.
You need to define what is "better".
Last comment and I'll stop updating that thread with new information.

So the disagreement and comments by Monica regarding the CoC was about pronouns. But Monica had waited before another ex-mod talked about this [0], I think because she didn't want discussion about this CoC change to distract from her issue (being "fired" as a mod without discussion).

[0]https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...
Facebooks innocent mistake was the presupposition that its capable of defining truth.
Not American, but I think maybe the point is the minute the government has to resort to taking up arms, or using the military against it's own people then it has already lost. At that point the country is effectively done, it's a failed state.
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First paragraph is spot on.

Second paragraph goes off the rails.
EU citizens can request Google to hide online information about them
Fun fact, in my language "Texas" means crazy: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-...
Yup, hating China is cool these days... people that have never been there nor understand the language or the culture are the ones that share all of this non-sense.
Very good idea, as big plague is coming...
What arguments are they actually making?

There is just declaration without any references. Nothing to argue against, besides blunt lies like:

"Only very few peer-reviewed papers even go so far as to say that recent warming is chiefly anthropogenic."

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/04...
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming. A survey of authors of those papers (N = 2412 papers) also supported a 97% consensus.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686 The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.

You should take a look at:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_of_recent_climate_...
I did a short (6 month) contract remotely a couple years ago. Parts of it were nice, and and I could see enjoying working a few days out of the week remote (although I'd prefer a shorter work day or work week tbh) I didn't care for fully remote. I rarely have reason to leave the apartment and it was just kinda depressing being stuck inside my apartment all day
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Yea, at 1/2 price your saving ~750k a pop. A 100 million dollar drone that costs another 100 million to keep running over 30 years breaks even at ~270 bombs. Alternatively, a 1 Billion dollar airplane that costs 500 million over 30 years to keep in the air breaks even at 2,000 bombs which seems sadly plausible.

Though again flexibility to chose targets at the last minute is extremely valuable. Cruse missiles are simply a poor choice vs tanks.
If you take a statistics class, one of the very first things that are taught is to be careful not to infer a wrong cause-effect relation when presented with a "correlation".

A typical example is "given any city, there is a strong correlation between number of churches and number of crimes commited." This is pretty much true everywhere in the world but that does not imply one is causing the other. This correlation can simply be the natural outcome of more populous cities having both in higher numbers compared to less populated ones.
> I should have said "impossible" rather than illegal

And that would have been still wrong, though with less hyperbole.

> So no, not misinformation. I just worded it somewhat imprecise.

From: there was an isolated case that, had it been generalisable, had the potential for making some aspects of voluntary fire brigades trickier if not addressed, but that actually wasn't generalisable and there was actually no problem at all to "it will be illegal to have voluntary firefighters" is not "somewhat imprecise", it is complete misinformation.

Pretty much the definition of misinformation, in fact.

Because this is exactly how a lot of the misinformation regarding the EU works: you take something highly technical, localised and actually benign, then take 2nd hand reports of people who misunderstood the implications/consequences, take those misunderstandings as fact, extrapolate from them and then ratchet up the hyperbole to 11.

And no, the fact that lawyers did a study doesn't really change any of this. The EU is a political body, and the largest member states have large or almost exclusively voluntary fire-departments. So even if the interpretation were correct, which from all I have seen it is absolutely not, it would simply (a) not be applied and/or (b) changed.

In particular: the working time directive is, as the name says, a directive. This means it just specifies some goal(s) to accomplish, and it is up to the member states to implement national legislation to accomplish those goals. So if they need to carve out exceptions for volunteer fire departments, they can do that.

So yes: "it will be illegal to have voluntary firefighters" is just wrong and not just a slight imprecision, but pure misinformation.
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Haha... Of course the most pro-vaccine article #1 on HN automatically.
If they were armed this would have been over a long time ago. China would have gone in with tanks and the army, or even air strikes. Once you take up arms against the government that’s not a protest, that’s a civil war.
I think anytime you shoot a gun at one someone you are shooting to kill, shoot to maim feels like it would be practically impossible outside of movies.

But I might be wrong, I've never shot a gun.
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And this theory was just as absurd last time. Johnson has been talking about buses of various kinds for decades. He doesn't control when his bus claims make news.
Did we win Afghanistan? Did we win Vietnam?
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Still wouldn't do anything to a malicious government controlling the army. And for overthrowing government you don't need to be armed - see dozens of examples all over the world - the army is made of citizens as well after all.

So, no, it doesn't make any sense in the current age to say you own guns to protect yourself from the government.
> the simple fact is that the government will win in the game of “who has more guns and power”, just as it would in the USA

I do not actually agree with the premise that, in this modern day, governments can no longer be overthrown. Civil wars are not won on the basis of "who started with more guns?".
I was very surprised to see my surname on the front page of hacker news today. No relation, afaik.
It‘a kind of ironic, the French were so focused on screwing over the British, that they nearly bankrupted themselves and raised a generation of freedom fighting officers. Both eventually led to food shortages and revolution.
It sounds like someone needs to make a business getting broken appliances from rich western nations, then shipping them to underdeveloped nations where they can be repaired cheaply, then resold locally.
OpenStreetMap has the same problem from time to time. People want to add technical hiking/climbing routes but don't mark them very well and they show up without any differentiation from other trails in various OSM based maps.
"Marxism has therefore given up trying to provide an explanation for the 20th century history... The reason for this failure lies in the fact that Marxism never made a meaningful distinction between standard Marxist schemes regarding the succession of socio-economic formations (what I call the Western Path of Development, WPD) and the evolution of poorer and colonized countries. Classical Marxism never asked seriously whether the WPD is applicable in their case."

In fact this was/is an active area of research, namely Post Colonial Theory and Subaltern Studies, which has been heavily criticized and reified with a more classic Marxist analysis since. Post Colonial Theory and the Specter of Capital [1] is perhaps the most accessible such critique.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_Theory_and_the_Sp...
>All higher life on this planet survives by eating another life form.

>That's not relevant to this discussion unless you're talking to someone who thinks consuming any life is immoral. Sounds like you're arguing a straw man.

But it is relevant. You would elevate animals above plants.

If you want to give rights to things with life give it to everything.
Also worth noting Apple has a free Swift Playgrounds app available on iPadOS. Although it's primarily designed for helping people learn how to program, it's a completely capable Swift environment where you can create multi-file projects and even build interfaces using native UIKit objects.
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

Not so hard to imagine these days.
You should read up on how the cuban revolution was executed.

You don't win revolutionary wars through brute force, you win them by getting public opinion on your side, which makes the current government in place illegitimate.
> Those are not mutually exclusive and actually a good idea.

The goals “assuring folks that there is isolation” and “identifying flaws that need to be fixed” are somewhat contrary to each other.

The post-mortem should identify flaws in systems, processes, and thinking. It should not try to assure people that there is isolation when there is evidence to the contrary.

> You want to fix this specific issue, but also ensure that whatever process took down one DC doesn't affect other DCs.

This was a multi-regional failure. So, this specific issue is also an isolation problem, among other things. You will want to ensure that this problem doesn’t happen again but you shouldn’t assure that it won’t.
Or, given alliances and treaties, the spark setting off a world war.
It's probably the opposite in many cases - new technologies allow to build things that are significantly cheaper, but also less durable. For example, thanks to precise numerical simulations, you can be much more precise in designing the elements so that they are as thin/light and use as little materials as possible. Before the CAD era, you just did it "by feel" and, to be safe, made things much more sturdier (and more expensive).
This is my exact situation right now. Our website is made in Django, and we use Pyenv to manage our python versions. We'll likely be going to route of a docker image/ pyenv install script. It takes trial/error to figure out some of the packages you need if they aren't installed already, a single binary would be far easier for sure.
Sonos is (or was) mostly UPnP with some extensions... so for discovery they used SSDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Proto....

I messed around with their stack and internals for a while about ten years ago... some remnants remain

https://github.com/NathanHowell/Sonority/tree/master/

https://github.com/NathanHowell/Sonority/tree/core/

https://github.com/NathanHowell/upd2
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dbqsfl/video_show...

shows cop ran into the crowd and had a clear exit path (not necessary to shoot to remain safe)
You do the align wheels thing and I'll get right on #660.

> Apply and release hand brakes.
> Today is the anniversary of China as a communist country. The Hong Kong marchers were all wearing black today as a sign of mourning. That is why the kids are dressed in black (so please, no black bloc/antifa comments.)

The Chinese color of mourning is white, not black as it is in the west.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture#White

> White is also the color of mourning. It is associated with death and is used predominantly in funerals in Chinese culture.[3] Ancient Chinese people wore white clothes and hats only when they mourned for the dead.

They have been intentionally reaching out to the west though. Perhaps they're intentionally appealing to western sensibilities.
Stop being so offended snowflake.
I inferred from "local electronics repair shop wanted £60 just to diagnose the issue".
It's certainly not a win for the US there.
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The practical difference is that title IX means that universities have to provide equal opportunity for male and female students. If a donor wants the university to pay male athletes $1 from his pocket per athlete, he would have to donate $2 per athlete, since there needs to be equal opportunity for males and females. Currently that manifested itself in equal scholarships, but if the law changes, I would assume it would end up mandating equal $$
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Yep. I'm fairly certain that companies change their SKUs all the time because they know that whatever they make will get a bad reputation (or neutral at best).
Similar project but for Beoplay & written in Swift: https://github.com/tlk/beoplay-macos-remote-cli (shameless plug)
We'll remove the human element from online discourse entirely, and everyone will finally be able to pack up and go home. Did not expect it to happen this way, but I'll take it.
> “about as well as the Taliban,”

So you mean that living standards drop back by 100 (or 1000) years?

But seriously - asymmetric warfare works best against scrupulous adversaries who claim the moral high ground and stop short of "salt the earth" warfare. China doesn't, the CCP won't mind starving out an entire city or state to get them to stop resisting, just like the Soviets didn't.
However, he's lost his majority due to throwing about 20 MPs out of the party. This is a really, really odd situation; Schroedinger's PM. At some point, probably very soon, the confidence vote is going to be held and we find out whether he has a majority or not.

He's also trying to talk up whether he's really subject to the law or not, specifically in regard to the Benn Act against no-deal.
Plenty of Germans I've met here in Montreal echo the same concern; that the German way-of-life is depression inducing. Everything works decently well but it saps the strength from you to have the kind of vivacity and challenges that, while don't make life any safer or easier, make life worth living.

Atleast, that's my interpretation of what I've been told. It's a little what English Canada felt to me now that I've moved to French Canada. It's safe and fine but nothing's really happening. Your relationships aren't going anywhere; your career is basically about paying an oversized mortgage.
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I don't really have a point here, but my wife and I recently looked at burial options and there's a beautiful cemetery near us but the only really affordable option is cremation and storage in a wall of tiny notches with little doors with an indoor/outdoor viewing area and garden for visitors.

I have started referring to it as, "Our Cubby" and my wife hates it.
The only things that matter are what is on the front page for a vague search term?

If you remove the vague extra word "model", the alleged affair is still on the first page pof results for "Boris johnson".

Also, if you want news, perhaps you could...read a news site, not just stop at whatever Google suggests as 10 headlines related to a three word query
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