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> Chernobyl killed less than 100 people. 31 direct deaths, later raised to 54.

Repeating a lie does not make it true. The official numbers are completely worthless because the Soviet leadership massively mis- and underdocumented pretty much everything related to the accident.

> There is considerable debate about expected deaths due to increases in cancer rates, but there is no consensus on the numbers (ranging from 4,000 to 60,000 projected deaths), and not even consensus about whether cancer risk due to exposure to radiation is even linear or not (linear no-threshold vs radiation hormesis).

...so you'll simply assume that all that radioactive material spread far and wide over huge swaths of Asia and Europe had no ill effects at all?
circumventing their revenue model so you can steal their services for free is also a "piece of shit" move.
There is one simple, proven tactic China could use to both have their law and still keep giant foreigner companies. App stores have been known to give api special access, and collect smaller fees from big apps. A VIP status, or exemption list will make such companies stay until China kicks em out.
Show HN: Tickets as Config, tickgit: project management as part of your codebase
I understand where this mindset comes from, but I think it (unfortunately) stems from YouTube originally being its own service and now being "part of Google" and sharing a single account now. I'm not sure if it's up to Google to remind users this is the case, but it'd certainly be helpful.

If you Do Something Bad in Facebook Marketplace, I'd expect the entire Facebook account to be banned -- not just restricting access to where Bad Thing happened (FB Marketplace). Or, if you broke T&C on Amazon's marketplace, I'd expect your AWS account to be banned also. If you cheat in one game sold through Steam, your entire Steam account gets banned/penalized, not just your access to that one game.

I can kind of understand why people think Google's services are different, but I'm not sure why that continues to be the case over time as we move further and further away from back when YouTube had its own accounts.
Perhaps a hybrid system would be the best compromise: use PV panels to capture electricity, but keep some salt molten using a combination of electrical heating and solar energy redirected off the panels' protective coatings, then at night you can supplement your batteries with the far longer lasting molten salt.
Except that, if your account is cancelled, the datas are deleted (or should have been)... so there's nothing to download, even from a GDPR point of view.

So the probleme to be able to use that GDPR feature... is to still have an account
> Are you quibbling about what "huge drop" means?

No, I'm sincerely interested.

> Without CO2 fertilization, effective adaptation, and genetic improvement, each degree-Celsius increase in global mean temperature would, on average, reduce global yields of wheat by 6.0%, rice by 3.2%, maize by 7.4%, and soybean by 3.1%.

"Without adaptation" is not a plausible scenario. Of course there will be adaptation. But let's take those numbers anyway, and take a very liberal estimate of six degrees of temperature increase: That's 36% (wheat), 19.2% (rice), 44% (maize) and 18.6% (soy), respectively.

That may sound alarming if all that produce had to be turned into food that people need to live. In practice, most of it goes to livestock or even biofuel production. Being forced to have less cattle and fuel might be good for the climate, no?

> Borlaug's Nobel Prize speech cautious us technical success in raising food production is only a temporary victory - we must also limit our population.

Perhaps, but the best way to limit your population growth is to deliver a better standard of living.

> When you write "Crop production depends on the weather far more than the climate" ... how is that even a valid argument? Where are the Canadian orange groves? How's the Brazilian maple syrup industry? They don't exist, because the climate is wrong for those crops in those areas.

I'm talking about actual crop production, not hypothetical crop production. Nobody is starving because farmlands that never existed stop producing. With bad weather, that's different.

If we're talking about climate and agriculture, the argument goes both ways: If global temperature rises, then new places will start making sense for certain forms of agriculture, just as old places will stop making sense. This also will happen regardless of human intervention.
> Which version of gnome are you on?

3.24 I think? whatever the ubuntu beta is using.

> I just checked gnome settings and it has option to change touchpad speed. Don't have a mouse so can't comment for that but it should be there.

I can assure you it is not

edit to add issue link: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/3...

> Open the app and right click the app icon in dock(if that is what you mean by favorites bar) and it should have an option to add to favorites.

neat! that didn't work for kitty though, for example, I had to do it manually.

> I have found gnome to have the easiest way to edit all shortcuts. Settings>Devices>Keyboard should show you all the keyboard shortcuts and if you scroll to bottom you will find option to add custom shortcuts which you can set to any command. Much more extensive than the frustrating MacOS keyboard shortcuts in my opinion.

The shortcuts panel is indeed very nice, and the shortcuts that you can change there are nice. However, many aren't changeable there, and you have to install (!) and go to the very poorly designed keyboard modifications panel of gnome-tweaks, for example, to change caps lock to esc and tell gnome what you want your windows/mac key to do.

Where it falls down from karabiner is:

1. there's no way to have different settings for different keyboards. I have two that I use regularly, with fairly different layouts

2. it lacks the power of karabiner; I'd love to have a rule like "command-c equals ctrl-shift-c but command-t equals ctrl-t". Trivial in karabiner, impossible in gnome

> all you then have to do is click install while on the website

I'm glad they have that, but I don't want to give my browser that security hole, so I grant you that one's a bit on me. Should be easier to do a manual installation anyway.

> I agree linux was in a pretty bad shape a decade ago and we still need to improve a lot but to say it is still the same is ignoring all the hardwork of a large number of wonderful people who have been contributing to the codebase.

I do not at all mean to trash the hard work people have done, I really (truly!) respect it. However, from this particular user's perspective, the problems are about equal to what they were a decade ago.
> Cf the present day Hong Kong protests, and Yellow Vests protests - in both cases, the government would use snooping power to spy on the communications, dragnet style.

The USG has been working quite diligently on that already. I don't think there's any particular reason to believe it can't read (almost?) any email it wants to. Very few emails are encrypted and host-to-host encryption is optional anyway. Various providers that have tried to resist USG secret warrants have just given up because it's not really possible.
I dunno, it looks like some three-letter agency compromised this baby around the middle of the year.
Hi everyone, I don't post here much, but wanted to showcase an idea I recently started playing with to see if it makes any sense. I'm curious to know what project management using git looks like, and if there's any value in tracking tickets for a codebase, within the codebase itself. There's more detail enumerated in the github repo, please share if you have opinions!
It's LIDAR. It's main benefit for finding archaeology earthworks is that it is possible to remove the vegetation from the results. So anything obscured by trees becomes visible for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar#Airborne
Wait, I thought Blendle recently switched from pay-per-article to a subscription model (in which you only get to read selected articles)?
Wait, is Arch back to being a hipster thing? I thought we'd graduated to well-known distro.

I've been using Arch since '06, back when Judd was still in charge and the repos were divided up in terms of "stuff Judd maintains" and "stuff other devs maintain." It was this small community project that nobody had really heard about, and I got so used to it just not being a thing that when (sometime in the range of '10 - '12?) folks started talking about it as a hipster thing, it really took me by surprise. A few years later it seemed like it was just one of the more well known "hands on" distros with great docs, and I was glad to have that phase be done with.
>As far as cleaning out “old” politicians — that’s ageism. One’s birthdate doesn’t determine technical literacy.

Statistically speaking, it very much does...

Would you bet your money, when age is the only available information, that 1000 randomly chosen people in the 60-80 bracket would have equal or more technical literacy than 1000 randomly chosen people in the 30-50 bracket rather than less?

Didn't think so.
> Find me the American that doesn't have a Chinese-made TV, a Chinese-made phone, a Chinese-made laptop...

American living in Europe here, and while I realize this is a bit of a curveball I'd like to point out that it is not difficult to avoid Chinese made products. My TV is a Samsung made in Hungary, my phone made in Taiwan (I do have an old Thinkpad made in China though).

I try to avoid Chinese made products. Not because of any nationalism, but because better quality alternatives exist at nearly the same price point.

For example I have a German made fridge and it's exceptional. It is difficult to get excited about a fridge but when I disassemble the shelves and bins to clean it I notice carefully finished edges beneath cosmetic covers that most customers would never see. The plastic parts haven't gone brittle and do not crack or chip. The glass shelves are thick and heavy and tempered. There are thoughtful touches that come from superior engineering and quality raw materials. It only cost a tiny bit more than similar Chinese models and I expect it will outlast them while retaining all of its original functionality.
Succulents are easy to care for & cute!
Right, so we just need to be smart enough (and have enough data) to centrally (and a priori) manage the collective and emergent action of millions of humans. Seems like a reasonable expectation.
"By giving the Chinese government and its cronies full access to its data, the U.S. or EU company may very well be deemed to have illegally exported technology to China and it could face millions of dollars in fines and even prison sentences for some of its officers and directors. There is an inherent conflict between foreign laws mandating a company not transfer its technology and China’s laws which effectively mandate that transfer.

Under China’s new cybersecurity system, there will be no place to hide."

Very good. Put the Cooks and Pichais in jail. Only this will make them rethink doing business in China.
What you are doing is a form of Reductio ad absurdum. You have to assume that people have their best interest in mind. They will refrain from forming states that are too small to exist, and apart from that this is not even a remotely realistic scenario.

In fact, mistrust that people can decide things for themselves and that localism leads to the best outcome for them is the hallmark of centralism and bureaucrats. Things we don't need more of.
I don't understand you. In what why is starvation a solution? Perhaps you believe that moving equals starvation? Either way you hold some very concerning ideas.
Step one: Sign up for a https://tutanota.com/ email account for $1 a day.

Step Two: Set up gmail to forward all emails to the new email account.

Step Three: Stop giving out your gmail address.

Step Four: Start marking all emails that get forwarded to you through gmail that you don't want to see as spam in gmail.

Step Five: Start migrating all real-life contacts and online accounts to use your tutanota email account.

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SERIOUSLY, start paying for email from an email-specialized company in some European country with extremely strict privacy (such as Germany). GET OUT OF GMAIL and OUT OF U.S.A. EMAIL-BASED PROVIDRES A.S.A.P.
Not sure why this comment is being being downvoted. While the phrasing could be better, the point stands.

It's frankly ridiculous that people are fighting for their democracy in a country, but Apple won't allow them to install an app that can help them track police activity.

These are thousand dollar devices, that these people OWN, but on which they still can't install the apps they choose. Honestly, fuck Apple for this. It makes me so angry to see this BS.
Article 16 says subjects must be notified of remote inspections, including the time and scope; or said inspections must be published ahead of time. Remote inspections must not disrupt normal functioning of the subject’s systems.

Again, I’m only talking about the written text of the law.
I guess they would look totally different because both topics are totally different.
>Imagine how you'd feel if the US post office told you that you couldn't receive mail any more because you had an unpaid parking ticket in another city? That's not punishment, that's behavior control. Maybe the parking ticket wasn't fair, or maybe it was someone else with the same name as you, or maybe you had a legal, legitimate reason for parking there.

I agree that it's draconian and goes too far but government very commonly screws people over over minor things by using monopolistic behavior like this and there are many people (including many people here) that endorse it when it (dis)incentivizes something they want (dis)incentivized. Point is this behavior will not go away if you have a public email provider. The list of triggers just becomes different. What Google doesn't like is different than the US government doesn't like is different than... you get the point. You may at least get due process though which would be good but the fundamental "this person has offended our organization so we're gonna screw them every way we can" behavior won't change unless society demands it.

edit: I'd be interested to hear why everyone finds my opinion so disagreeable.
Unfortunately lithium is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain at scale. If graphite becomes commercially viable, that might be a good step up since Carbon is freaking everywhere.
This is a huge complaint for me with most of these HTTP clients. I don't get why Git/VCS workflow is not considered in these applications. Imo, it needs to be first class.
Why do people give all their stuff away though? It's literally saying, here why don't you control my stuff instead of me. So stupid, I never got that.
I think the point was just that it didn't leave that zone a barren inhospitable wasteland, not that we should count that as a plus.
This. I suggest iCloud, Dropbox, Lightroom, OneDrive, or Ever. I often take advantage of “free trials” to upload all my photos to these services periodically. Once your free trial expires you can’t upload more photos but they hold onto the existing ones indefinitely.

I also use a NAS device (cheap!) and a lifetime Plex account for my viewer. Only iOS “live” photos are inconvenient to back up anywhere but iCloud so I don’t take many Live Photos.
Only with the experimental fractional scaling enabled. If you disable it, your X11 apps will be sharp too.

(No, I don't know why it still isn't fixed yet.)
I will start migrating all soon, I don't want to be fucked by any mistake of Google
Although all major OSes are still a massive pain even on Desktops currently.
This went unnoticed but, do we know whether the executives or those who made the decisions here were all MBA graduates? I am an MBA student and we do case studies on exactly these kinds of issues and how the correct course of action, but ethically and financially is to do the right thing. Maybe others disagree but this comment definitely stood out to me.
I think they also know from their Uyghur experiment there is a never-ending unpredictable cost to using force.

Things don't just return to normal the next day morning.
I think the argument is that it's better than coal with respect to radioactivity, and better than any fossil fuel with respect to CO2, and better than most renewables with respect to land usage.
That's exactly what happened to me just a few days ago. I got an email alerting me that a secondary Google account of mine had been accessed, password changed, secondary email changed and I think even some kind of security question also changed (I don't even remember Google having those). Ok, no problem, I'll just tell Google I own it for whatever means they ask and change the password back.

Recovery email doesn't exist anymore. There's no phone number attached (I haven't accessed the account since before I had my first smartphone). And the account must be like 12 years old or so, there's no possible human way to remember the precise month I created it (I don't even remember the year).

I have all my Google accounts connected through gmail, and I can even receive the emails that go to that account, since they go to my main account. I tried for a full whole work day to get the account back, but there's just isn't any human I can talk to, so the account now belong to some russian hacker or who knows. Luckily for me is not a very important account and I haven't found anything important attached to it, but it's very scary.
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Yea, it's a shame - I was excited but I don't see why it needs my contacts. Appreciate your comment.
Wow and I had enough trouble getting an AWS Org root account deleted (created by an employee who no longer works at the company). AWS sub orgs require you give the sub org a credit card, then close them independently.

Be sure to close the sub org first, then remove it from the root org. If you don't and don't have the root login for the sub account, you're going to have a bad time.
I've heard the same thing said about London. By people with PhDs, no less. It isn't true here any more than it is in New York.
I won't pick up the bait here, but I'll just say that I regularly use Mac OS, Windows and Linux, and I have good reasons for saying that Mac OS sucks the least of those three systems for desktop use.
I wouldn't recommend buying anything that you might ever need to return to the store...
> including automation taking away jobs from Americans

What about the explicit intentional policy?

> along with regulatory capture that has allow bad policy and ability to pay $0 in taxes like Amazon

Don't you mean the lack of?
Did you publish those stories? Would love to have a look!
Is there a credible open source version of G-suite that you could drop onto a self hosted VM (similar to how you might host GitLab)?

It would offer email, photos, and office. Would also receive all the necessary security updates.

There has to be a business in there as gitlab seem to have done quite well with this model.

Then we could all move to that.
> When government is unable or unwilling to act, business should not wait.

I hope this is all based in good intentions, and have no real reason not to believe so, other than past experience.

I just had this idea though: Seeing the current state of US regulatory capture; I wonder what would happen if companies that felt the way Marc Benioff claims he does (as well as the other companies in that roundtable) would just start paying the same lobby money as business has done previously, but instead ask for sane regulation, aiming for what they claim to be working towards.

If I was a politician beholden to corporate money, but also still had a sliver of a soul left in me, and was given the option of the same money, but to work for the people that elected me, I could actually get some real legislative work done. At least if the same was true for other representatives and senators.

Or campaign finance reform and outlawing outside payment to politicians, but that's a catch 22 given the above.
For me it's hard to believe that Google can identify which Google user account is used to run NewPipe.
I am currently in the random scattered spot, cant wait to get some normalcy around the sleeping patterns. Side note what a great idea, and did he actually knit this himself?
lol what in the actual fuck world are we living it? "I'm really worried im going to lose access to Google because I'm constantly stealing from Google"

"the fact my bank would close my savings account when I'm only stealing out of the ATM is an abuse of their near monopoly. I'll be taking steps to migrate my money out of banks for this".
But "it won't happen to me, surely".
Surely "what would we say had gone wrong" depends entirely on .. what actually happens? This seems like a double counterfactual that's impossible to answer in advance.

Presuming we don't lose key information (e.g. deliberate erasure of the NOAA archives), we'd treat it in the same way as the current investigation; find what changes are required to the model to make it consistent with the data.
Sounds like someone was specifically targeting you?
In the U.S. at least; we've seen the greatest number of pedestrian deaths since 1990

and

> Traffic deaths are now the leading cause of death globally for those between the ages of 5 and 29.

> Pedestrian deaths are up 51.5 percent since hitting a low of 4,109 in 2009, according to GHSA. They now make up 16 percent of all road deaths, up from 12 percent in 2009.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/02/28/pedestr...

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...
Is there good documentation/tutorials on setting up xmodmap? It seems like that's a road I'll need to go down at least a bit.
We do not pay to keep our messages perpetually in Slack and it’s intentional
Yes we negotiated, received discounts, and have a dedicated person working our account since we're growing into new countries and adding lots of offices.

It's still much more expensive than the competition (and absolutely worth the increased expense).
It's automation taking away the lower level trader and analyst positions. These were jobs that were very lucrative. This creates an even more rarefied, winner-take-all atmosphere, and makes an industry that was already considered amoral downright sociopathic.
AppImage & snapd & flatpak are poor solutions to a real problem. It's better to wait until someone comes up with a good solution than accept a bad one.
I'm glad this helped you as well! If you want to, let me know how it goes! If not that's fine too! I hope things look up for you soon! :D

Sending positive vibes!
Settings->Input Devices->Mouse

There is a slider for adjusting pointer speed.
I find that to be a possibility too. If none of the other newpipe users in the thread got suspended for "using 3rd party app outside of Play Store to go around Youtube ads", chances are newpipe isn't on the app blacklist.
Sorry this happened to you. It is a nightmare to think of losing an account on a platform with little customer support.

I try to use my ProtonMail account for friends, family, and important business email. I do use gmail for stuff like travel reservations and as a junk email for registration on sites I don’t much care about.
ABC News Used Gun Range Footage to Report Turkish 'Slaughter' of Kurd Civilians
I had a somewhat similar experience with Linux on an old Mac mini a few years ago. Too many things had to be fiddled with using config files and scripts. I had to resort to using a Magic Trackpad like a regular mouse. There was quite a bit missing "out of the box". I will admit that Linux has improved a lot over the years. But I find that macOS seems to be the one with a "batteries included" experience and is the least annoying among Windows, Linux and macOS. While it's possible to setup Linux to one's preferences with some effort, I find Windows to be standing in my way and slowing me down most of the time even for trivial things (I'm looking at you, Windows 10).