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Just took your advice [0]:

A comprehensive study published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows children raised in same-sex-parented families do as well as children raised by heterosexual couple parents...

However, the study did find that young people who expressed diversity in their sexual orientation or gender identity experienced some of the highest rates of psychological distress in Australia, said the study’s senior author, Prof Frank Oberklaid.

“Young LGBTIQ+ people are much more likely to experience poor mental health, self-harm and suicide than other young people, “ he said.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/23/child...

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Closing the gap between what we want, what we're told, and reality, is really tricky

The authors say they aimed to show, and found no harm at-all from gay parenting; and that is their conclusion. But it is hard to draw easy conclusions, even just from their own words
Streisand effect doesn't work in absolute dictatorships as it requires freedom of speech.
'git add -i' is my new favorite. When you want to stage certain files but don't want to type out the paths over and over again to deeply nested files
Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
There are countries with high corruption rates where elections are well-known to be manipulated in a number of illegal ways, e.g. by tossing in huge numbers of fake votes and by blocking opposition from participating in elections for fake reasons. And even if the elections were held correctly, an elected government which ignores its duty to protect minorities is not democratic.

As a strong believer of democracy are you naive enough to believe all the elections are perfectly fair, no party at power ever cheats to imitate democracy and that democracy is about everybody sacrificing themselves to obey "the majority"? Do you believe the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is actually democratic? Do you believe the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is liberal?
I mean the entire society is organized around abstract concepts: corporation, nation, state, money, God, duty/obligation, human rights. None of these things are real (physics does not care about, say, debt), those are just programs running on the human brain. Natural language is the dispersal protocol of those programs.
> Building a side project is work, spending time with family, camping, going on trips isn't.

No, work is work, side-project is a hobby,it's done for recreation, for example to do some stuff you can't find a reasonable excuse to do at work. To explore and enjoy yourself doing what you love. That's also the only reason to have one..

Doing _ANYTHING_ is work if you look at it wrong enough.
How terribly boring such a movie would be. No snappy dialogue? Witty repartee between protagonist and antagonist? No deep thoughts on the moral corruption of society? Godfather without dialogue? Joker without dialogue?

I guess you only like watching Michael Bay specials, explosions convey destruction really well I hear.
Current versions are. But, if you bought CS6 outright when Adobe switched to a cloud subscription model then CS6 is not going to work any longer (it's 32 bit).

That's the boat I am in. I can afford their cloud subscription but out of principle I will try their main competitor first (Affinity: $50 one time purchase). I will try running it in a VM second. Only if neither of those solutions are satisfactory will I pay a monthly fee for software that I use very little.
> If you want to object to censorship, great. But if you do, you need to do it as a general principle

Why? I think it's perfectly reasonable to say "Blizzard, you should ban people who make racist statements from your tournaments, but you should allow people whose who voice support for pro-democracy protestors to compete. And if you decide not to do that, I won't watch your tourneys or buy your games."

Are you saying that I am a hypocrite for liking the contents of some speech but not others, and acting on that preference? Note that no one is saying the government should use its monopoly on force to ban speech - we are talking about private action.
>The idea that rich can bully anyone with lawyers is seductive, but this is The Guardian, a newspaper with its own army of lawyers.

Don't forget how Billionaire Peter Thiel sued gawker to bankrupcy.
Python 3.9 would also include some optimizations for parsing large strings : https://bugs.python.org/issue37587
Technically speaking it's not really apples to apples. One is due to malice (hitler was actively trying to exterminate a race). The other is due to incompetence (mao would've preferred if those people didn't die but was too stupid to predict the result of his actions).

Not trying to defend either of them of course. But just for the record books we would should have a saner way of counting.

If you're going to attribute deaths due to lack of foresight then the inventor of cars probably have one of the highest kill counts. Or Genghis Khan for fathering such a large population of mortals who eventually needs to die.
ugh i hate GUIs, for me those are a middle man. With cli, i can "feel" git. with GUI i'm just telling a 3rd party to talk with git for me. That 3rd party can also screw up some communication, just like in telephone game.
yea i agree, trying to look at the code etc on sourcehut was just painful the first thing i said to myself was "wish this was on github" then came here to see i wasn't alone in that sentiment!
I get joy from coding and five years in, my programming job is far and away the best job I've ever had and the most I've ever been paid.

That being said, I also realize that there's more to life than writing code. I spend all day at work writing code. The last thing I want to do is go home and write more code. There's an entire world out there that I won't see any of it if I stay inside locked to my computer 24/7.

Why does everyone HAVE to have a side project?
You need to watch better movies.
I remember spec being pitch for something you only use at dev time and turn off in production because it makes your runtime very very slow, what has change? Seems users are using it for everything now.
We vote with our dollars.
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You don't have to meet absolutely all of the guidelines. Did you make an effort to have an accessible website? Did you accessibility bugs when they are reported as causing problems for users? If so, you will be fine. Domino's didn't. They basically just told blind users to fuck off and call them instead.
The Taiwan Flag Emoji topic got a lot of attention too. I think that's a fair spread. Censorship, Unicode standards, and Blizzard is kind of the expected overlap of interest topics for Hacker News.
The rule is clear :

>> Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image...

It says : "Blizzard is a commercial entity and it doesn't want to be involved in anything else than gaming".

For me Blizzard acts in a very corporate way. There's nothing wrong with that, provided you accept the corporate way is the good way.

If you think Blizzard's action is wrong, then just don't abide to their rules.

Blizzard has no moral, it's a commercial entity and it makes whatever compromise needed to expand its commercial activities.

Let's talk about that on the next tournament, just to see how the rules have been updated.

(try to express political opinion inside Disneyworld, just for fun)
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Well, kinda, they're being all wishy-washy about it:

https://www.nba.com/article/2019/10/08/nba-china-relationshi...

Not enough in my opinion.
Do... do you actually believe those are simply "re-education" camps? I mean, they're as much re-education as Auschwitz was a weight-loss camp.

It's not going to be the first time when "Oh, this isn't a bad place for these people. We're trying to help them. That's all we're doing... NO CAMERAS!"

Like, I'm having a stroke right now. You need to read some history.

Let's see: Japan Unit 731, the "Congo Free State" under the Belgians, the Russian gulags in general (fun part, they imprisoned their WW2 vets because they came in contact with western ideals thus needed their own re-education program). The cover up for the Armenian genocide is another cluster fuck. Shit, what else... How about something more recent. Sudan covering up the Darfur genocide in 2003. This is just off the top of my head. Oh right, and the 30+ million Mao had killed. Kind of forgot about that little Chinese gem.

I mean seriously. I'd give the benefit of the doubt to Hamas with Jewish prisoners before I'd give it to a communist regime.
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Not even close. The NBA did not ban a player in response to a comment, “Commissioner says league will continue to back Morey’s right to freedom of expression”. Activision / Blizzard on the other hand is actively suppressing speech.
Agree with that. Having a few side projects really made me happier.
Catalina voice control is disappointing
The new voice dictation inMacOS Catalina,Is quite disappointing.If you pause between thoughts,It doesn't put a space.It capitalizes letters after commas.And it doesn't put spaces after periods.This means, you have to do a lot of editing.I was really looking forward to this feature.It also refuses to work in google chrome.So to addVoice dictation to Google Docs,RequiresUsing safari.

Am I just using it wrong?Or could it be better?
So how do you oppose a government that is the sworn enemy of values you regard more precious than your own life?

It's hard not to be the enemy of such a government seeking to increase its power and influence on the world.
Surely the visuals are important. But not as an end in themselves. The story in a movie should be propelled by visuals (instead of mostly dialog or, gad, title cards).

I'd go so far as to say, any time a movie resorts to backstory-monologues or text, the director has failed.
>> Building a side project is work

I agree, but... I used to do them for fun, for the challenge, to learn, to prove to myself that I could do it.

I've recently been working on an existing open source project. I do so because I like the software and want it to be better. I also have the background to contribute in areas that haven't been touched in years. While its voluntary and feels like a side project, it's still work.

These things are all work, it's just a question of why we choose to do them. Maybe the other commenters that dont see it as work have a bit to learn about their own motivations?
IPv6 can help protesters in Hong Kong
Vector shapes and text can go a long way but what about rendering images, video, or even SVG for icons and such?
I think 'show, don't tell' is a mostly meant for inexperienced story tellers since it's an easy trap to fall into that can kill the story. There's a bunch of other rules like not mixing tenses or sticking to a single perspective that when they're broken by a writer that has some serious writing chops make for some really great stories.
Some Chinese companies are allowed to bypass the great firewall, but only if they demonstrate that they comply with the governments monitoring and filtering requirements themselves. I know of a couple companies that are in this category. They don't need VPN's. They have circuits to all continents, but they are also just as vigilant as their government. They are also required to provide all encryption keys. I am not naming names.
Not sure - rumor is they outsourced all development to India to save money. But the program became very crash-pone, and they became extremely slow to add new features. And then InDesign came on the market, iterated quickly, and ate Quarks lunch.
I think many Chinese citizens are taught from a very young age a carefully crafted ideology that tells them that their country used to be oppressed by the west, that the west despises them and looks down at them because they are Chinese. At the same time they are taught Chinese people couldn't handle the kind of "freedom" that exists in the west because politically the country would fracture and chaos would ensue, also if weapons were available as they are in many western countries people would be killed on the streets etc. If personal freedoms were respected criminals and terrorists that hide behind them couldn't be dealt with effectively and the only thing that stands between the people of China and anarchy is the communist party. This ideology is a mix of national pride with intentionally planted feelings of being inferior and resentment towards the west for their historic "crimes". This results in a mindset that acknowledges democracy and freedom is better in the west, but it could never work in China and West's attempts to bring it to China are actually cynical attempts to destroy everything China's achieved in recent decades wealth and military power-wise.

When the majority of the people think as described above the only thing that can bring change is an economic downturn, but would that change be for the better or would it be in the direction the North Korea is taking?
My favorite for a decade was Python, but it falls down in bigger teams and projects. A little better these days with the static typing available and proper linters and formatters, but not my first choice anymore.

I like Go and Rust the most these days. Not because they're perfect by any means, but they avoid a lot of traps of the other languages and scale well for the whole lifecycle of actual software development in teams.

Java is bad for a few reasons. The JVM makes everything an object on the heap, which means you're always in a war with your garbage collector. You have to run in bigger machines with plenty of memory headroom. There's a lot of backward compatibility cruft, like the fake generics. The worst part is the people though. The language is too mainstream but not hard enough to weed out the bad coders, and they make a mess out of the code base.
I agree, while not ideal, the Chinese government's control over the media is not on the same level of atrocity as genocide and mass murder. I was referring to Chinese government's mass incarceration of ethnic minorities and the forced labor and (allegedly) unsedated harvesting of their organs.

A few previous HN discussions about these topics:

- Organ Harvesting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18674885

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249489

- Forced Detention of Ethnic Minorities

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564433

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826846
South Park has been advocating an ideology, including many morals, from day one of the shows. It may be a mixed message, it may be contradictory, but a lot of SP comedy hinges on pointing out the absurdities in our societies.

Comedy has always been a place you'd look if you want to see someone speak truth to power, for millennia too, and South Park has always done that.
It's not strictly the rich. Ashton Kutcher helped run the Village Voice into ground for daring to run a piece questioning his (deranged) statistics about sex trafficking.
The last message I saw before it was switched to private was a message from the moderators along the lines that r/blizzard is not the right place to discuss politics, and that they'll ban people who post politics there.
> People absolutely do have rights, my government ensures that I do have a right to vote.

Except when you are prison ( depending on your country ) or below a certain age.

It's all semantics - back to the meaning of my reply - the person I was replying to suggested that some things are non-negotiable ( like rights ). This is simply not true.

Note I think a system of government with universal 'rights' is a good system. Not dismissing that concept - quite the converse - these exist because people have had an adult negotiation with each other.
Ask HN: How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?
Is it even possible? How do you as a developer, not become a lifetime maintaimer?
In a database product I'm familiar with, the prepared statements are cached according to their content and those cached objects are shared between connections. Only if they fall out of the cache do they have to be re-parsed. I had assumed that's how all databases worked.

I'm somewhat surprised at the mechanism you're describing, but now I read the documentation it does seem to be the case. I wonder if a small piece of middle-ware might be sufficient to replicate the behavior I'm describing on a connection pool, and whether that would be desirable.
Be careful. We don’t have a great track record “encouraging democracy” with Iraq and Afghanistan.
I think this little nugget was interesting, speaking of reducing load times:

> To minimize [rotating harddrive seek time], developers will often duplicate certain game assets in order to form contiguous data blocks, which the drive can read faster.

> "If you look at a game like Marvel's Spider-Man," Cerny says, "there are some pieces of data duplicated 400 times on the hard drive."

400 times! That's a lot. I wonder to what extent or ratio the game is simply redundancy. Likely only smaller assets are duplicated.

edit:
also,

> However, game installation (which is mandatory, given the speed difference between the SSD and the optical drive)

I guess this means only a cursory disc check will be performed at game start, from then the rest will be from ssd. That'd be great.
I don't see why that's any of their business. The only thing that's the business of a government is the income generated inside its own borders by that person or company, and the government should be able to have access to that data to make sure that person/company is not cheating on their taxes. Once they've paid their taxes on that income, if they want to move it offshore, that's their business. If the person or company is generating income offshore, that's not the business of that government, it's the business of the government where the income is being generated.
Cancel Billionaires
I pay nothing (monthly). But I am rural, and have my own well and septic system. Which cost, if I remember right, $5000 decades ago when built. Which amortizes to maybe $20/month.
its all about time coffee remains in contact with water ... the shot is optimized for flavor, high in oils which are quickly released ... longer exposure with water in drip extracts out greater percentage of caffeine
For companies using China for manufacturing it's less visible than entertainment companies like the NBA and Blizzard (to choose the two most recent examples) who are bending to China on censorship so it's natural the big hits would come from those companies actively censoring personalities rather than those just quietly not doing something because of China.
Agreed - daylight is one helluva sanitizer.
Or the best! you know what they say, if you gonna F things up, do it in a epic way.
(It's also less than extraordinary that European privacy laws allow this, but it is sad that this is the case.)
Isn't this what we are doing here?
As others have said you export an STL file from your design software. This goes into a slicer (Slic3r, Cura, etc.) If you set up your printer with OctoPrint running on a Rasberry Pi you could do the slicing there, but you quickly run into the limitations of auto-slicing.
Who knew CCP would be able to censor the west with, gulp, the might dollar. The irony.
Like setting your wifi password to "FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE"
Thought Police caught in action.
This opens a huge can of worms, given that there is no clear standard for this. W3C has varying degrees of compliance, some of them near impossible to abide by.
The three big cities here have bad air quality compared to the less densely populated areas which are still within commuting distance with public transport.

I live about an hour commute from Amsterdam in an area where the air quality is considerably better than it is in the cities.
so before getting married a couple has to sign a contract expressing that they will conceive children, otherwise be stripped from their married status?

It's curious that I've never seen anyone campaining against childless marriages, only against gay marriages.
I misspoke, I did not mean that as a whole, I only meant that in terms of the availability of legal and libre alternatives for that market (they may not be as convenient to use or available in a single package, but allow you to create roughly the same things).

For books, you have _no_ legal way of reading those books.

Even books by legendary freedom icons are not available DRM-Free. I encountered multiple times, last time was after spending hours while trying to purchase a certain book by an infamous author. No seller had this book available DRM-Free.

It's insane that knowledge is locked behind whether a single corporation decides you're worthy of reading or not.

* Situation in public libraries is not much better with OverDrive/Adobe being the legal overlords and guardians of the entire global market.
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This is the primary adhesive used:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol_formaldehyde_resin
The hope may be, in the long run, a free society will eventually reject the burdens of a non-free society once it notices the cost. But the non-free society will catch and spread the idea of individual human rights like a virus. A good virus, of course, in my opinion.
It's kinda neat that one of her major complaints with physicist culture is pernicious groupthink, and that some of the primary arguments against her are prima facie dismissals for not subscribing to consensus.
This is what you get for cosying up to bullies. It may be exhilarating while it lasts, but since the bully doesn't care about anyone but themselves, you will eventually always loose. The west has been gorging on cheap products from China and we started getting dependent. Now the bully senses power over us, and starts applying pressure. The better bullies know how to do this incrementally, slowly at first, so that it's hardly noticeable. Then, at some point you realize you're in a situation that you don't want to be in, but it's too late.
They said the flare lasted 300,000 years, but how quickly does something like this start? How fast does it go from "nothing" to "full strength"?
What can Just War Theory teach us about ending wars?
The framing. The external framing...
You are ok with your job but there is no passion. That’s what I’m talking about.

You don’t have to have a side project.

Passion is so rare these days, isn’t it?
That's what I said.... I was replying to somebody that said the 'rights' were how somehow none negotiable - when they are in fact the outcome of negotiations!
> So he literally stated in his manifesto that creating a communist state would require despotism, or in more modern language, totalitarianism

Your whole argument hangs on equating despotism with totalitarianism. But it's not the same, these 2 characteristics are orthogonal.

For example European absolute monarchies were despotic but not totalitarian (mostly because there was no technology to exert absolute control over the society).

> That was just one of many calls Marx made for violent revolution rather than democratic means.

Again, violent revolution doesn't mean the state is totalitarian. Many democracies started with violent revolutions, many totalitarian states started with democratic elections.

> Marx didn't specify that as an end state per se

Thank you, that's my point. You're defining what is characteristic and accidental in communism arbitrarily.