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Sadly, popular discussions about topics like these are usually not worth spending any time on. There is no shortcut for digging into the math.

> while many worlds claims that all possibilities are indeed realized

That's...a problematic statement since you have to define "realized" without resorting to any classical concepts. Once you manage to excise the classical concepts you end up with something that is perfectly reasonable.

> Brian claims that we just don't know for sure what happens between events (A) and (A'); he claims that a unified theory would explain what happens between those events.

I suspect that this was a communications breakdown. It's hard to imagine a quantum physicist today postulating this in the face of the last few decades of experimental and theoretical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics.
> If you are a US citizen, you can't be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device.

There's an important divide between what customs is supposed to do, and what they might actually do in practice. Going through customs means putting yourself at the whims of people that you do not control.

If you're a white male, there's perhaps less of a chance that a bad employee will feel they can take advantage of you, but there's still the chance.
> there's no way to verify

Obscuring in this manner likely counts as lying to a federal officer, particularly if they catch on and ask if this is your main profile.
California just came out of many years of drought without those fires. The fires happened after an unusually wet year.

It is negligence. Brush and tree clearance are not harder than 50 years ago. There was no sudden surge of trees and brush to cut. They just chose not to do it.
Neat, i was looking for an alternative to Netlify. My hugo site does need some automation!
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Taking a break from the game for a while is also just a super normal thing to do. It's a 15-year-old game and the people who have been continuously subscribed for that entire time are going to be an infinitesimally small portion. It's much more common to either just play for a few months when new content comes out, or play continuously for a few years, get burned out on it, then come back years later.
While they may not have used the correct terminology, the issue itself is correct. You can, by default, see who all in the org have viewed a document.
But we're not done designing them. This is an ongoing project.
Yes, it was given for the photoelectric effect and other work (which was nudge nudge, wink wink, relativity). Everyone forgets just how much physics Einstein did besides relativity. Brownian motion, for example.

Turns out that the photoelectric effect as described by Einstein was possible to get out of classical physics, though, so it took a few more iterations in the later 20th century to really nail that one down again. See 'The Quantum Challenge' by Zajonc.
It's exactly this attitude that I hate. Guy in a wheelchair can't get to class because the elevator is out? Swap rooms with another class on the ground floor or get a few strong guys together and carry 'em up the stairs or have someone hold a phone and livestream the lecture or have someone take notes and give them to him after class.

Cancelling every single class without even trying just says that what the university is doing isn't important. It begins to look like the only thing that matters is providing the appearance of an education. If things get a little difficult, as long as someone else can be blamed, no harm done by skipping some material, you weren't going to use it in real life anyhow.
Really interesting, good find.
No, they don't remotely have the military might to invade the middle east, not that this is a bad thing, but to argue they do is just silly, they can't even invade Taiwan like they've wanted to do for 60 years.

As for peaceful, from Tienanmen square to how they deal with the Uyghurs to what is likely to be the case for Hong Kong they are anything but peaceful, even with their own citizens. If they were truly peaceful they wouldn't have to censor their own actions from their own citizens. If they wanted a peaceful solution they'd be happy keeping Hong Kongs current autonomy. Externally, they invaded Tibet, they would invade Taiwan if they could, most of their peacefulness comes from inability and not lack of desire.
This was super easy when I had TWRP recovery.

Is there an official Android way to pull a full system backup?
"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?"

As believer of HEALTHY democracy, I've never made any such implications. Guys from US/UK/EU claiming Taiwan is a country should go protesting right away, don't let democracy down!

As I already said, if democracy doesn't work in your country, don't waste your time caring about China/TW/HK unless you actually live there.
Twitter: No, really, we're sorry we sold your security info for lots od cash
The vendor lock-in is a good point... Isn't this risky for the customer? What do they gain over, say, a well-crafted React-TS SSR app, or Django or what have you? Do they really get an end-product that is so much more reliable? Is this cheaper or more efficient? What happens if there is a political fallout between the consultant and the customer, or if the customer can no longer afford them?
I have been diving into webassembly, via rust. This really enhances the tooling.

What would be a good place to learn more? I have been looking for good production examples of webassembly. Apologies for the out of bound question!

This is awesome :).
What's "FUD"?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721891, which I will quote in part:

"Prop 8 would not and did not "nullify" any marriages licensed by the state in the middle of 2008. See

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Prop-8-not-retroactive...

Retroactive or ex-post-facto law is unconstitutional. I am a big fan of this principle. It protects all of us."

I did not support nullification, and it was never going to happen, because it would have been unconstitutional, as then-AG/once-and-future-governor Jerry Brown said. What's more, Prop 8 actually passed, and no nullifications occurred.
I did not say that attacks on police were common. Indeed, I believe that any such attacks should be the work of a very small minority of protestors who would definitely not represent the whole.

It’s clear that attacks against off-duty police officers have happened in the past, so I included that aside as an example of the threats that police face. Of course those attacks predate the map app. Those are also the kinds of attacks that tend to make news, because they’re essentially attacks against civilians (similarly, this is why news of police attacks against civilians make news).
Twitter, actually. I’ve been making it a habit to tweet short term goals and then follow through.
We can't just abandon people that we screwed over. We are better than that.
I think you're attributing too much to Trump here. Trump is part of the same movement of rising authoritarianism and strong man politics. He may be the poster boy, but Putin has been there for decades.

My opinion, which I can't support, is that the dream of information technology automatically progressing democratic and liberal ideals has failed. Information technology is no different than chemistry. It can be weaponized effectively. Right-wing parties around the world learned how to powerfully engage with the masses. It really was a meme war. Propaganda is undoubtedly effective even when it's standing right next to the truth.

If you only read the news you would think it's only national leaders taking over and oppressing the populations. I don't think so. I think this is a trend towards grassroots nationalism and fascism. The people want this.
I would say it cannot be categorized as propaganda. NYTimes editors seem to be decent people. However, that's very dangerous because its more deceptive to spread fake information(i.e. the civilized internatinal communtity is fighting against a evil regime abusing human rights) unintentionally that eventually will cause more conflicts.

It's quite insteresting that while most English speaking community blame Chinese censorship, there's an invisible censorship of political correctness that prohibit the other side of the story which might be truth. The same invisible "censorship" makes me use current throw way id because my opinion based on what I know seems very evil motivated or might take money from CPP.

Chinese speaking media have different stories which lead majority of Chinese having different oppinions than Westners' naive human rights view based on their moral superiority. To them the the narrative of HK events is another lie just like WMD. The response to Morey is an angry response to defamation , not bully to freedome of speech that US politicians and journalist love to describ about Chinese government.

Ironically it's also NY Time disclose some information about the other side of story[0].But thats a very small piece. There are much more than that. Westeners just don't know because of invisible collective censorship. The people under visible censorship some times know 2 sides stories while the other side are easily fooled by the "independent" journalists who distort the reality based on own their values and invisible censorship. I'm also using the opportunity to see how many downvotes I can collect as an observation of invisible censorship.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/world/asia/hong-kong-prot...
Americans have freedom on paper but they don't have any freedoms that matter. They have "freedom of speech" in the technical sense, but that freedom goes away once they get an audience that matters.
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...but it's no different in that respect than declining to unlock, which I imagine pretty much everyone on this site will do in such a situation.

> get onto no-fly lists

Source? I can't find evidence that anyone has ever been added to a no-fly list for declining to unlock.
NBA Fans Supporting Hong Kong Protests Kicked Out of Games, Signs Confiscated
Make sure you rtfm carefully.

Many years ago I accidentally deleted all the metadata from many images that needed rotating.
Eventually they have to let you through though. They can't send you to a detention center for not unlocking your phone, you're a US citizen and you're not being compelled by a court to do anything. They might keep you in a room for many hours but at the end of the day they will let you go and you'll have a good story to tell the news channels.
It always bothers me that many libraries still use nearest-neighbor to resize images instead of some kind of Lanczos filtering.
Oh absolutely, but that's a different feature that they also mention (and imo a less interesting one).
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Are you aware of California's form of civil unions, Domestic Partnership Law? Still on the books, and it provides the same positive rights with respect to hospital visitations, etc. I was among the majority of Californias who supported this law as passed and amended. I would not have supported Prop 8 without it on the books.
Wingo is responding to an argument that could be made by some readers, and which Wingo believes is asserted by "many (most?) GNU developers". He does not believe it to be a valid argument.

Under your definition of straw man (which I believe is incorrect; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man ), it would be a straw man only if so few people were presenting that argument that it doesn't make sense to even bring up, in order to reject it.

I believe there are enough people who believe that Stallman is the leader of the GNU project that it's worthwhile to bring up.

I think a "strawman argument" is more like one where I point out that Stallman says he is involved in making GNU project decisions, and ask when those decisions are, then you point out that he cannot be involved in making GNU license changes which break legally binding obligations.

The structureless essay has come up many times before on HN - search the archive for comments.
Isn't being locked to one of five big vendors that do .NET a bit better than being locked to the vendor that does Elm, though?
I am not sure the foreigners, but actually right now more and more Chinese students studying aboard are back to China to work. In case you don't believe it, just added the link from QZ.com: https://qz.com/1342525/chinese-students-increasingly-return-...
This assumes that having the brightest and most creative people is necessary to become a global superpower. That's a particularly modern and Western way of thinking; a lot of powerful empires in the past got that way by fostering a sense of moral superiority in the ordinary people. The British empire, Ottoman empire, Roman empire, etc were all built on the idea that the people were better than everyone else so it was OK to take from other nations. And it worked - those empires lasted hundreds of years, thousands of years in the case of the Romans.

America has been a superpower based on capitalism for under a hundred years. That isn't long enough to see if it's a better way of building power than other philosophies just yet.
Because I do have a CS degree and can program in several functional languages I can glance at your link and see how that parser works.

Mind you, you're right re the BDFL stuff. FT.
While PG&E is definitely at fault here, I feel California deserves this type of treatment. With the extremely stringent regulations which place PG&E at risk for massive fines/penalty for wildfires even if they take all possible precautions, this is the logical outcome of a company trying to stay afloat.
Federal law (DOMA) preempted state law here. I was against DOMA on legal grounds, FWIW. California was not going to get around DOMA by changing state law.
In this context, we're discussing gsuite, which doesn't use any data for ad targeting.

Edit: from the privacy policy:

> No. There are no ads in G Suite Services or Google Cloud Platform, and we have no plans to change this in the future. We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other G Suite services. Google does not collect or use data in G Suite services for advertising purposes.
You are not alone. We are on the same boat. Invisible censorship is more deceptive than visible censorship. I don't blame the system. Freedom of speech? It's not easy although it's a wonderful idea.
Messages, FaceTime, Maps - all apps that are used throughout the world for criminal purposes which endanger people and law enforcement.

This does not mean they should be pulled. Nor does the app break any local laws.

This is spin. This is putting the value of money above the value of individual freedom. This is shameful.
Well if you want 100% foolproof fire insulation, PG&E would be multiple times what they are today.
222mb of space on my development machine machine is so little I wouldn't even think about it.
The threat model does not need to be that the provider as a whole is truly hostile. It could be "a rogue employee went snooping" or "the server got hacked" or "there was an access control bug."

Instead of "trust us to keep your data", what if Google said "we don't have your data." That would give me more confidence, since it both makes the hostile actor's job much harder and it's also easier to verify.
Hi! What kind of data are you planning to generate? Is it images only?
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Not necessary, but doable

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I realize your comment is not contributing to the discussion, but surely you must know that it's still far cheaper than running your own power plant to generate enough energy to power your home, right?
This. PG&E has neglected their first job as a regulated monopoly which is to provide safe power. They are years behind on repairs and clean up needed to lower the fire risk.
INAL but I don't think that legally it would be lying. I believe lying requires more than not complying. Plus, we always have the right to remain silent.
Would it be possible to have 2 charts with synced crosshairs on this? I have a little open-source application that grabs stats from Elixir nodes and its plotting library is pretty slow. Lining up multiple crosshairs allows pinpointing a moment of time to an issue.
You mean the holes they are adding in the latest years? macOS wasn't getting better since SnowLeopard. The HW neither.
The Blizzard equivalent of this article is on Page 2 (currently #42):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207057
It wasn’t cut by steam. It was cut by epic. Steam updated its terms to prevent removal in the future.
Attempting to deceive CBP through hidden volumes and the like is not recommended.

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
Already being discussed here with many more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

Describing a situation as worse than it really is.
Ok - so then suffer with power cuts. It is wrong to say that PG&E is a likely worse than any other US utility company. And playing safe than sorry is the natural outcome if we are going to blame them every fire.
I just need it to take me to the bar and back. Is that really so hard?
... and the sovereign military bases in Cyprus, which also get mentioned in the treaty discussions and full titles.

I wondered how Gibraltar was outside the customs union; at time of UK joining, not only was Spain not in the EU, it was still a fascist dictatorship. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Gibraltar-opt-out-of-the-EU-Cu...
The advantage of being a mathematician is that the unifying theories for QM and GR just that, mathematical techniques to unify QM and GR. Unfortunatly, if you are a physicist, I assume your grants at some point will have the words "predictions" or "experiments" in them.

But for someone focused on mathematics, string theory, quantum loop gravity (if that is what it's called) and all the others become tools and objects of study on their own that have a unique perspective to offer in their own right. Whether you study one or the other then becomes a personality inspired preference. Just because I don't study number theory, doesn't by default scorn the field (or perhaps I just can't do number theory).
Yes, i have. Looked interesting at first, like skipping the technological steps older economies had to develop, and are stcuk with it because of sunken costs, regulatory capture, thereby overtaking them. Sounded reasonable, intelligent, smart.

But i also recently read something about debt traps, maybe even here. But am to tired to search for that now. Anyways, would it matter? Should i have to hide my opinion behind some link i can point at, and say 'there, they said so too!'

Edit: Anyways, cash is king. It's simple. It works. Electronic
cash seems simple, and may work. Or not.
Earlier discussion here with many more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678
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Didn't the preceding years of drought kill a bunch of trees, leaving standing fuel?

Also, wasn't 2017 the hottest summer ever in California at the time, although I think 2018 broke that record, and I think it's on track to break the record again in 2019?
For a startup you could also do just reputation, of caregiver personnel or local caregiving companies.
So I'll have to backport it then by myself. No macOS upgrades for me beyond 10.15
A small flashlight can (and has been) done, see e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/158857-body-heat-powered-flashli...
Even Gmail's welcome email is ending up on spam
And of course there's "Big Clive" who is probably familiar to many of the people here. He lives on the Isle of Man and frequently talks about it.

(He does a "hands channel" on YouTube taking apart electrical devices and other gadgets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMv2KyuZEp4 )
> So Apple are just the same as Google...

> So the lesson here is to rather use the Android platform if you want "freedom".

I doubt you're going to get much more "freedom" from a Google owned platform if you think the two companies are just as bad...unless you're prepared to root the device to hell to the point of almost replacing the OS completely.

SIDEBAR: Facebook is banned in China, partly because FB didn't want to comply with the censorship / surveillance requirements, iirc. Though someone who has more knowledge of the situation could probably clarify. Nevertheless I'm not sure why you lumped them into the actions of Apple or Google.
I don't think you're worrying about the right things here if you're about to start writing app code. Infrastructure can be changed easily - poorly architected code cannot.
Doesn’t matter. If there’s truly no way to verify, there’s nothing they can do in a scalable way to determine people are lying about their main accounts.

The only thing they can do is use fear to get you to comply, or make you doubt your deniable encryption scheme is truly secure.

If they really wanted to could they find out? Perhaps. Maybe if they use CCTV footage and extract your phones screen and do comparisons or something. If you are an individual though who has done something to warrant that level of scrutiny, perhaps the additional crime of lying to a Fed isn’t a big deal compared to whatever crime you have done.
That doesn't explain other submissions on the same topic floating up and remaining on the front page. It also doesn't explain the Blizzard story being/was very active and is now only on the second page (for me) at this moment.
> "All of the modes work through different hand gestures, and the Tap Strap 2 is designed to anticipate what the person wearing the device wants to do. When a hand is horizontal, the Tap Strap 2 works in keyboard mode for typing via different finger taps. When the thumb is resting on a surface, it switches over to mouse mode, and when the hand is rotated vertically, it swaps over into AirMouse Mode."

I've not tried it (yet) but I'm pretty skeptical of such a feature. Half the appeal of a wearable keyboard, to me, is the ability to type while in a posture that would otherwise be poorly suited for typing (e.g. my hands hanging down at my sides.) Also if the auto-magical mode switching works as well as other auto-magical features in other products, it will probably change modes when you aren't intending it which for a keyboard could be very frustrating.