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A leftie disgusted by the ignorance of the left?
Agreed. I wish that HN would force people to write a comment explaining why they are downvoting.
They've probably got enough info from your signup for the developer program to send the FBI to your door afterwards.
This is exactly the mentality this entire thread is about! Here we see it clearly demonstrated in another product. Apple says "update, upgrade or you are dead to me."

I have been stuck multiple times with users upgrading Pages two versions later on a desktop and then unable to read on their laptop or vice versa. Inexcusable!
I think that's one of the reasons NPR bought Pocket Casts - to get this data. Where are users skipping? When are they dropping out of a podcast? Etc.

Personally I skip forward past ads all the time.

I have half a mind to write a podcast player that skips ads for me. It doesn't feel like an insurmountable problem.
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Chronic pain is not psychosomatic. That has nothing to do with chronic pain. People like to blame the patient, that they're not trying hard enough to will their way through it... like you do through any other challenge. That is a really harmful attitude. You mean well, but you're hurting the people you treat this way. You should educate yourself about what chronic pain is if you want to be inspirational rather than causing harm. A chronic pain patient can't psych themselves out and not hurt. There are some techniques in pain psychology that help a bit, like mindfulness techniques or imagining the pain tingles but doesn't hurt, but they're only somewhat effective and that is as good as it gets in terms of psychology.
Support has been at least partially stripped from the kernel. Attempting to run a 32-bit executable yields an "invalid executable type" error.
What you're seeing is the result of decades of efforts on the part of post-Eisenhower Republicans to discredit the very notion of government of the people, by the people, and for the people -- and you're falling for it. Good job!
The kind of simple utilities you are talking about would have also been pretty easy to maintain/port from OPENSTEP in 1996 through to current MacOS. Apple's offered pretty good source-level compatibility for the basic stuff, and an easy migration path for tooling. Recompiling something every few years isn't a "constant churn" sort of burden.
We must respect the wishes of sovereign governments and the rule of law if it's capitalism and not the jungle
I think what Trey & Matt give us in South Park comes from a pretty genuine, sincere place, most of the time. Sometimes its some of the best comedic satire ever conceived and just the kind of thing we need in the moment - other times, there's nothing particularly inspired and its pretty apparent they just need to get an episode shipped.

But... they have a rare talent for nuking sacred cows from orbit. It always hurts when its your cow.
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Compare also AUBERGINE and PEACH, which have both picked up alternate meanings to fill in for certain popular anatomical values that Unicode has elected not to define.

EDIT: seems HN removes emoji. I understand why, but it makes discussions like this one somewhat annoying.

EDIT: I've removed a somewhat vulgar reference to what those alternate meanings are, as it seems to have upset some people. I was trying to make a real point about how users will fill in the gaps when demand exists, even if Unicode omits them.
That's my point. There are no good choices for them now. That doesn't mean they should be excused for the bad choices that led them to this point.
Yeah, agreed. They don't seem as unwelcome as other ad forms.
not sure about this, I just upgraded and all of my office apps still work
One country can have various entry requirements for its regions. China’s own Hainan island lets me enter visa-free for 30 days while Mainland China doesn’t.

Same identical country, different rules.
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> What the gp is referencing is the argument that the concept of free trade has only obfuscated colonialism. Rather than colonialism by France or UK it’s colonialism by Nestle or De Beers. To someone harvesting cacao for $2/day nothing is materially different from living under colonialism, except their landowner might be some well-connected member of the regime rather than a European.

Ironically, China shows you exactly why that comparison is absurd. Colonial powers carefully controlled production to keep colonies from moving up the value chain. Indian raw materials were gathered by Indian labor, shipped to Britain, finished, and shipped back to India. Foreign direct investment, by contrast, allowed countries like China and South Korea to rapidly move up the value chain. Foreign investors get a return when the foreign company moves up the value chain, even if that takes business away from a company in the investor’s own country.
App idea:

Community-run data API for podcasts that people mark the beginning and end of audio ads. This way most of the community can skip them.
Very nice, good find!
This little sideline made me look it up, since I had seen a comparison of only a few countries and it was many years ago.

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

Most of the countries on the list I would consider living in are in the 20-30% range.

Most of the low range countries tend to be poor and underdeveloped, with the odd exceptions of Japan and South Korea with 10%.

Also interesting to see some of the countries with the highest quality of life are generally in the 30% range.

The few countries over 40% (Cuba Belarus China Kuwait Russia) aren't ones I'd personally favor for living.
Great point! I thought the same. You might need to explain this problem for the plebs among us, of which I’m totally not a member. ^/s
Is it fair to assume that this is all of comedy Central giving China the finger as well as just the south park team?

I would imagine China would take this up to the producers? And I imagine Comedy Central is directly involved in the production/funding?

If so that's a pretty awesome and hold move on their part. I could see this leading to other shows feeling compelled to choose a side as well. I hope it does.
So it's like NBA, where you encourage suboptimal coulored men to speak up and then back off because winnie the pooh got hurt? how many americans do watch SP, you reckon?
The application Steve used was made by Lighthouse Designs on the NeXT platform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design

Some great applications. I would love to have a direct port of all of them today. Of course I also want the shelf back and I want my menus on the side like NeXT. Oh well.

Keynote was created so Steve could have something that worked and looked the same as Concurrence. He would use his old NeXT to create presentation until Keynote.
He's never really been a figurehead, at least not entirely. At the start, he was one of the most prolific programmers around, and I think he still writes code sometimes.
Great episode, but I thought it was 10-11 million a year
> return of scripting, alright maybe not AppleScript, but JS, Python, anything: I want to automate my UI meanderings, what the hell

Script Editor.app and osascript both support Javascript
No, Saudi Arabia is invading Yemen because their puppet politician, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, lost power in a popular revolution. It's a clear-cut war of aggression - which the Saudis are losing. Among other things, they like to use child soldiers [2] and intentionally caused a famine [3], with over 85k starved children:

>Saudi Arabia was reported to be deliberately targeting means of food production and distribution in Yemen[47] by bombing farms,[48][49] fishing boats,[50] ports,[51] food storages, food factories,[52][53] and other businesses[54] in order to exacerbate famine. These actions led to the UN accusing the Saudi-led coalition of committing war crimes and having a "complete disregard for human life"

>On August 3, 2019, a United Nations report said the US, UK and France may be complicit in committing war crimes in Yemen by selling weapons and providing support to the Saudi-led coalition which is using the starvation of civilians as a tactic of warfare

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/27/serious-ques...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93...
>nothing but chopsticks

The Yellow Peril/Asian horde trope. Charming.
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Back in the "good old days", that's how I learned everything. Do you still consider that doable nowadays? With npm, pip, cargo and other package managers. Can air-gapped programming be done in 2019? How?
Map of affected areas:

https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natu...

Most reasonably dense areas are not affected, for some values of reasonable. If you live anywhere near a eucalyptus-fueled tinderbox, probably your power will be cut.
Is the answer greed? I'm guessing the answer is greed.
Welcome to the new dark ages, courtesy of our PG&E overlords.

I noticed that in the list of counties, SF isn't there. That's fascinating. Is that because they're SFPUC? But doesn't SFPUC get power by way of PG&E transmission lines? Do they have their own generation and/or transmission capacity to survive?

Also, what about Santa Clara (the city, not the county)? They have their own electric utility too. Do THEY have enough capacity to do their own thing?

It's gonna be stuff like this that'll kickstart the next recession. Just break the back of the valley's economy and the rest will take care of itself.
The biggest issues I see Amazon's e-commerce operation having are discoverability of products, and quality of products (namely counterfeits and used products being sold as new via FBA)
I refuse to use pronouns for people outside the binary and I'll only use the pronouns they have claimed.

I think this is a state and corporate power issue. I have never in my life been compelled to say certain words or risk losing my professional reputation, access to SO and more, but I can't, in good conscience, participate in this Orwellian social experiment I have never been asked my opinion of and for which, even the slightest deviation from the company line earns one virtual persona non grata status.

I'll use 'they' and be done with it.
Move to Detroit, they're literally giving away houses /s
Six or so years ago, approx 20 miles south of Brandon, FL in a still somewhat rural area, I had a great view of the milky way on clear nights. Now, a menacing dome of sickly pale light slops over maybe 150+ degrees of horizon and 45+ of vertical, making it difficult to see even Cassiopeia sometimes. I very much wish this wasn't so.

Hopefully darksky will save someone's slice of universe. In the meantime I'll be looking, unfortunately, on the brightside.
> Scripting isn't gone. The OSA services are still there; Python isn't installed by default but that's all.

Python is still installed by default. Launching /usr/bin/python (2.7.16) prints a big warning about how "future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7", but that's because Python2 is EOL.
I don't know if I'd go that far. I'd argue South Park was at its peak for the first 10 seasons. This episode was awesome but there has been quite a bit of junk between now and then. Obviously just my opinion though.
In what way is "had a RCE CVE" a track record that "Microsoft's security group involved in actively trying to find malware by running unknown programs has absolutely 0 precautions that one of the programs they run would be malicious."

I'm not talking about invulnerable software I'm talking about the comments assuming Microsoft doesn't expect __malware testing servers__ to run scanning or DDOS malware.
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I really wonder what the increased risk is of people using gas generators instead. I suppose from PG&E's perspective this isn't their liability but it still concerns me.
This should read 'the pronouns of the binary identity they are now claiming.'
The restriction of not allowing mainland into Taiwan is controlled by Taiwan. Not by China... Taiwan is the one that put the policy in place that China can only visit Taiwan via a tour group only.
AWS is pretty expensive. Might be possible for a tech driven company to cut out all the MBA types and undercut them on price.
I think we can trace this back to Clinton elevating China to MFA status and fast tracking it into WTO without much in terms of good international citizen milestones. For a few cheap TVs yesterday and today, along with disposable everything, we sold out good old blue collar workers (who in theory Clinton supported) and the path to a more democratic government in China. As I’ve said, Clinton’s legacy vis a vis American workers is much worse than Reagan’s —at least with domestic corps they were within our grasp. No more.
That's parent's point. Cloud software puts you at the mercy of the vendor's government on an ongoing basis.
You literally actively went out of your way to ignore information easily accessible within 15 seconds of a simple google search, directly from the CDC.

It's actually kind of funny you devoted that much effort into making yourself feel right, while not even being able to negate what was said with any kind of substantial source.
Uh… yes?
For Darknet Diaries I think you meant “non-fiction”! Those are true stories! (I love this podcast as well)
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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
I can totally imagine the world which China could control the west through exerting pressure on these giant companies.
Between China censoring abroad, and today's Syrian back and forth, I've been thinking about what a non-rightist foreign policy for the US could be.

It's a really difficult problem. The world can be rightfully indignant at America's post-war history of barely paying attention to the mess it makes. From the inside, foreign policy has all this classist baggage that makes it really had to touch from the left.
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>Are these things true of Chicago & Austin as well,

Those are populous cities.

>in response to an article about a person who is miserable living in a garage.

Something something anecdotes.

HN is complete garbage holy shit.
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Im thinking this is a non native language issue and no harm was intended but the wording of "sub optimal coloured men" would probably be interpreted as offensive by some and actually just doesn't totally make sense.

Maybe "marginalized" may be closer to the word you were looking for?
Pretty sure the escalating violence in Hong Kong would be a sign that things aren't going flawlessly.
Yes, I also think that killing literally everybody is the most reasonable solution to environmental and social problems.
If that's the price, so much the worse for the climate.
Funny quote, though it should be noted San Francisco isn't included in the shut off area
On the other hand, it's also easy to give them the finger when you don't have billions at stake.
Houses absolutely can be a work of art - and some should be preserved.
Let Microsoft deal with VirtualBox license claims from Oracle.
A funny story about that is that it was used in marketing by the pythons: "So funny it was banned in Norway!"
Yet Java is still a defacto choice even today.

Arguably minimal fuss & stable. Java code written today will still run without change in 5 years. Can't say the same of other languages.

What other language would you recommend for a large eng organization of 1000+ ppl?
They’ve been sending notices for months they may be shutting off power. The fear they seem to be trying to generate, it almost seems like they’re gonna try to ransom power, raising rates or get bailed out.
My only question is how do I sync both selected music (a playlist) and selected podcasts to my 10-year-old ipod mini without iTunes?

I have a playlist called "ipod" that I select to sync to ipod. I have certain podcasts that I select to sync to ipod. I plug my ipod in and click sync. The end. I've been doing this for 10 years.

Now what?
Housing prices would likely fall in that scenario. In the early eighties, homes values were cheap, but mortgage rates were expensive.
Hey if you're on the front lines of all this i get not taking what i'm saying at face value, but for what it's worth i am just trying to understand.

I think you're asking if submissions to SE will (or will not) be permitted to dodge the identity issue by writing in a way that avoids pronouns.

This just seems so over the top to me that it's hard to believe, which is why I also included another option. I wouldn't call it 'refusing' as much as 'not bothering to do the legwork for every party you refer to in your content'. Which is, of course, also onerous but possibly a bit less so.
Hong Kong will most likely integrate, but the situation is more fluid than it might seem on the surface. China is effectively dealing with significant civil disobedience which has sparked civil wars and regime changes seemingly over night in other countries. The breaking point is less about Hong Kong than how far the system can stretch suppressing everything from pro democracy advocates to various religious and ethnic groups.
It’s probably one of the best features having an Apple Watch: flick of the wrist, couple of taps, bye bye ad. If I had to pick up my phone, I probably wouldn’t skip the ads, either.
Maybe I’m missing something but given the final diagram, why wouldn’t they choose channel 5?
why would this be a chrome extension over a website?
Yet not that uncool, either.
> I'm not sure that you as a homeowner should have the right to dictate what type of housing nearby property owners are allowed to construct solely based upon your proximity.

So who should get to dictate what gets built? People that don't live there (and therefore don't vote?)

> Who gets to decide when "character" supersedes property rights?

Most cities have a council that decides this, and often with input from the residents who actively live there, and care about their hometown.
Adobe missed a huge opportunity to 'fail safe' and provide their products free to existing customers in Venezuela. They have the IP range... just whitelist them and declare their accounts free.
Adobe isn't punishing them. This is a US Government order.
Hence the benefit of open source products. Imagine if everyone who bought a photoshop subscription supported some great open source software. They’d get dividends on their investment as equal owners of the software!
Hardliners can't be funny. That's why there's no 'woke' humor either.
South Park was pretty nice to Obama overall and he had a decent ability to take a joke so I'm guessing he liked it.

I assure you Trump does not like South Park.

But at the end of the day it doesn't matter what they think. There would be huge outrage if a President tried to silence a satirical show. They wouldn't be able to get away with it.
Do you care if your judge used to shoplift? (I'm not interested in talking about real cases here.)
The executive order is only against the government and their associates. Adobe has declined to put the effort into identifying which of their Venezuelan customers are covered by the sanctions.
> a whole host of application-bundled languages

Ah, ok. I meant general purpose languages, not languages specialized to particular applications. I should have made that clear.
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> SF isn't there.

i'd guess SF wanting to buy its piece of PG&E has some role here https://www.kqed.org/news/11773007/san-francisco-offers-to-b...

naturally a power shut-off would drive support across the board for the deal, incl. the bond, etc.
Maybe not this week

I was in SF for the deliberate rolling blackouts in 2001

EDIT: it’s different in the reason, but it’s equally preposterous to have such badly managed infrastructure
Define "force".

If you mean "hold you against your will", they can't do that.

If you mean "you have to do it to stay employed", they can.

The question here is how pay is calculated. It's not whether the security checks themselves are a problem.
Yeah I know I've heard that about Tibet too, has different rules to entering than the rest of China. Then I've heard there's even cities that ban westerns completely, but unsure if that's true.

Just a very odd concept to someone from North America. If you fly to Miami you are allowed to visit New York or Seattle all the way across the country. Same with Canada.

I know Mexico has some odd things like that too though, you can visit border towns or cruise ports but if you want to go so much more inland you need a Visitor Permit called a FMM, or tourist card some refer to it as. Read conflicting amount of miles, seems about 12 miles though in. So seems like if your cruise final departure was in Mexico and you flew back home you might need to worry about it, but a port of call at the beach seems like most wouldn't need it. However read also flights and cruises will also include it with your ticket, but if you were taking a road trip across Mexico you'd for sure need to get one yourself it seems. But seems more like a tax than anything, since not the same as a visa.
The way she writes about a sharp distinction about a "negative commandment" vs "positive requirement" in the rules here makes it sound like she's really against respecting people's preferred pronouns and looking for a loophole that doesn't require her to do so. I don't have anything against gender-neutral language, but that kind of seemingly-motivated reasoning makes me uncomfortable, and I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing made SE think she was looking for loopholes to get out of respecting the CoC.

If it were a common expression of homophobia to to refer to gay people's husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends as their "roommate", SE made a rule against doing that, and a moderator asked if it would be fine if they always referred to the partners by their full names ... I wouldn't really get the impression that the moderator is trying to follow the spirit of the CoC.

Maybe not every user needs to be on board with the spirit of the CoC, but the moderators that are responsible for enforcing it probably should be.