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I agree with you. I don't play video games, but at this point in my life, I don't even want normal politics, why would I want politics in my entertainment?

Probably also why I'm seriously turned off by musicians with political agenda, like Roger Waters.
Is a "normal manufactured home" a mobile home/trailer?
> And python2 still works, it just won't get new features.

Probably more importantly, it wont get security fixes.

Yeah, Python 2 will still work. Ita not like there's a kill switch or anything. It just wont receive any official or supported updates. Effectively, Py2 will be abandonware.
> The meaning of "every" in that sentence was the same was the meaning of "every" in the sentence, "My barber cuts every CEO's hair the same way he cuts my hair." The point of the statement is not to imply every CEO necessarily gets their haircut or is even welcome to do so in that barbershop.

Sorry, not buying your use of the Humpty Dumpty principle here. Providing the service to some candidates at the same price as the rest of the planet, but not providing it to other candidates at all, does equate to a campaign contribution. Twisting the meaning of "every" doesn't change that.
There was a ton of evidence found. The US Senate Intelligence Committee just issued a report last week.

Please feel free to read the whole 85 page document, and stop repeating misinformation about the subject https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

> The Committee found that the IRA's Information warfare campaign was broad in scope and entailed objectives beyond the result of the 2016 presidential election. Further, the Committee's analysis of the IRA's activities on social media supports the key judgments of the January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections," that "Russia's, goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton,· and harm her electability and potential presidency."5 However, where the Intelligence Community assessed that the Russian government "aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him," the Committee found that IRA social media activity was overtly and almost invariably supportive of then-candidate Trump, and to the detriment .of Secretary Clinton's campaign.

> The Committee found that the Russian government tasked and supported the IRA' s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. This finding is consistent with the Committee's understanding of the relationship between IRA ownerYevgeniy Prigozhin and the Kremlin, the aim and scope of the interference by the IRA, and the correlation between the IRA's actions and electoral interference by the Russian government in other contexts and by other means.7 Despite Moscow's denials, the direction and financial involvement of Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, as well as his close ties to high-level Russian government officials including President Vladimir Putin, point to significant Kremlin support, authorization, and direction of the IRA' s operations and goals.

> The Committee found that Russia's targeting of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society. Moreover, the IRA conducted a vastly more complex and strategic assault on the United States than was initially understood. The IR.A's actions in 2016 represent only the latest installment in an increasingly brazen interference by the Kremlin on the citizens and democratic institutions of the United States.

Etc.

If that document doesn‘t do it for you, you can read quite a bit more relevant detail in the (still partly redacted) Mueller report (though the counterintelligence work that the Special Counsel’s office did is not explicitly part of the mandate of that report, so it doesn’t cover the bulk of the evidence about election interference uncovered).
App State is a cool liberal arts college renowned for being a party school back in the 90s, it's not Liberty University. I'm not sure this is much of a test for the partisan divide. (Boone is a great little town.)
It was a republican between 2011 and 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder
Why does "acccount" have three Cs? Is that really production code screenshot?
You know, that might actually be a good way to get the public to care enough to enact bans on unrestricted use of the tech.
Would be fun if affected world leaders backslash by restricting Twitter in their country.
Meanwhile if you live at the Bermuda you can get more than if you lived in LA... I think they are just messing with us! lol
Ruby broke applications and it wasn't even major version release I think it was 1.8 to 1.9.

Tcl 8.3 to 8.4 when they added unicode support as well.

I believe PHP did similar thing.
I know almost no one does this, but I find it so strange given what we know about domain knowledge that it wasn't the natural solution to teach a bunch of the catalog staff PHP and make them the foundation of the ecommerce staff.

You had people in there with 3-30+ years experience of knowing the ins and outs of Sears logistics, the product lines, the sales techniques, and the brand. They couldn't learn how to work a Wordpress site? Make a theme? Is it really always faster to take web devs and teach the entire rest of the domain to them?

I wonder what it would do to the inertia and political gamesmanship issues (not to mention retention!) if a company gained the reputation for continuously training employees and executives to keep up with the latest and greatest, that if you were innovative and took initiative you would be ahead of outside hires for new, desirable roles.
I have to admit I totally latched onto the point you made about fast development time.

The interpreter+compiler approach is something I've been pining for for a little while now. I've only just begun to punch holes in my obsessive tendency to only use interpreted languages (because I hate compile waits that much), and to me having the fast-iteration times of interpreters, and _also_ -O3 when it's needed, would be the best of all the worlds; IMHO JITs are a necessary hack for dynamic/untyped(/interpreted) languages, and there are serious real-world gains to be had from having the plumbing get done that lets people jump from interpretation, over JITs, straight to optimized AOT-compiled code.

Would be quite the project though, to port a fundamentally-compiled ecosystem like D to use an interpreter. I wonder how long a realistic timeframe to "minimally practically usable" would be.

Thinking about it, Cling (https://root.cern.ch/cling, https://github.com/root-project/cling, LGPL 2.1) wires Clang's C AST into LLVM's built-in JIT (IIUC) to get a C/C++ interpreter. D has LDC, so there is already integration of the UI/NCSAOSL and understanding of how to leverage LLVM. Perhaps a workable direction (with probably a lot of domain-specific knowledge already worked out and potentially available from ROOT) could be a Cling-like s/Clang/LDC/->LLVM ?

Another thought: using an approach like the above, it might be possible to add pragmas that specify whether functions should be AOTed or JITed, and how much JIT optimization should be done. I also wonder if the LLVM JIT can be told/forced to "precompile this specific function" (effectively AOTing just that function), within the JIT hot-code-replacement framework; if this were possible you could even hot-reload running code (with per-function/per-file/etc customizable optimization levels). IMHO it may be interesting to make this functionality available, and let the community/ecosystem work through the messiness of solving things like the struct-versioning problem. Clear communication would be important to rationalize and clarify the deliberateness of such a decision, of course, and that the language [design] hadn't gone completely nuts :) due to the number of segfaults/developer burnout/etc it would probably introduce.
When I see bash.org, my first thought is, "I put on my robe and wizard hat."
I'm going to need this very soon (not PDF/A 3 specifically, just PDF). A few months ago I did some research and I figure Skia[1](Sharp)[2] would end up being the base for any .NET core PDF libs. At the time, I was easily able to make a basic functioning demo for a project that ended up dying. Anyone using it in production?

[1]https://skia.org/user/sample/pdf
[2]https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/
No. Many modern homes are manufactured off-site and then assembled on-site.
Can you point to some recentish posts where is there is such discussion?
This looks potentially pretty useful.

A couple things keep me from trying to manage issues in Slack (like the travel example): threads don’t have a filterable status or a way to mark them resolved, and a channel can’t be ordered as most recently updated. What workarounds are popular to address these limitations?
Gmail is great if you don't mind having a multi-billion conglomerate profiting off your email data.
Ya, when I read that comment, I thought of the warehouse workers. And I don't think many could argue that they have it so great.
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> foreign politicians it doesn't like

I'd hope Twitter is smart enough to have a panel of judges with diverse backgrounds making these decisions (maybe requiring 2/3 majority) and not a single, biased person.

That said, it's usually the little guys that get hit the hardest. You could argue Trump has broken Twitter's T&C multiple times, but if you have enough popular support and eyeballs (and run federal law enforcement), Twitter wouldn't dare pick a fight. But, if a small (enough) account or a politician with less power (in Twitter's business markets) uses similar language they'll get shut down way faster.
>Will our influence on the rock record really be so profound to geologists 100 million years from now, whoever they are, that they would look back and be tempted to declare the past few decades or centuries a bona fide epoch of its own?

Yes, there will be a thin but noticeable layer of hydrocarbons and odd pollution signatures in the crust that will act as a permanent geologic record of our existence.
One of my clients was a modular architecture firm. They had a nice set of contemporary designs of varying square footage. Most were in the 2500-3500 sq foot range and went from 225K and up.

They said their main problem was people asking for a 6,000 sq ft modular home for under 200K. They were under the impression modular homes should be cheaper and you should get tons more square footage. Nope, most of the same rules applies to modular homes. It's the process that's faster and which makes it less expensive; but not 300K less expensive.

Pretty sure they went under. Most of the post on their FB page were from 2014:
https://www.facebook.com/HiveModular/app/143965932308817/?re...
150K seems overpriced. For comparison, I can buy a similar 2600sf home, built, for 275K -- ready to move in, completely finished plumbing, electrical, etc. That's from a local "custom" builder that builds from a standard set of stock plans. In both cases you have to buy the land and pay for the prep.
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She'll be fine as long as she stays off my bike path
\m/>,<\m/ but seriously it's wicked safe here
The platform/publisher paradigm is a false dichotomy because of section 230, as your article points out. The idea that section 230 hinges on some notion of political neutrality is an editorialized opinion by the author, not a statement based on the law. In reality, efforts to legislate political neutrality are not only impossible to enforce, but they would likely be challenged on a 1st amendment basis (i.e. forcing a private entity to broadcast political messages they disagree with on their own dime).
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My bad :-) Back when I was a kid, sarcasm was so much simpler then...
If you look at it from the perspective of a collectivist culture, which China is, this is indeed a very big deal. The president's own daughter jetting off to the USA whilst the party has been ramping up its anti-western rhetoric has major political ramifications. However, I highly doubt this news will reach the majority of people in China.
I'm claiming that a long track record of success is probably not pure luck.

Occam's Razor.

One factor in me not being raped while homeless was that I was usually not alone. There is safety in numbers.
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That's what I thought too. Honestly, this hardly changes anything at all from how Market Street currently operates in this section. You hardly ever see any passenger cars using it, other than rush hour. Already today, 90% of the traffic is buses and taxis, and even taxis are rare.
I mean, you could spend a minute reading both sets of commenters. One is well-informed and reasonable, the other is an angry mob carrying pitchforks.
HN isn’t even bad as far as Internet forums go, but the longer you work in the field, the more and more obvious it becomes that Internet forums are generally full of shit.
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> With that said, I wonder how hard it would be to sell prefab sections/houses that are already wired for electricity and plumbing straight from the warehouse.

I.e. a manufactured/mobile home?
In what way is it a nightmare to cross? Most of the time you don't even need to wait for a signal. Market Street is usually empty aside from buses.
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Yeah, I think every line has elements that are elevated over streets as well as underground. And it's working fine, but that's because we fund them properly instead of closing them. ;)

By the way - CTA just released an update of their stunning "ride the rails" time-lapse videos filmed from the driver's seat. Really neat:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CTAConnections
>And before you object that we’ve been living for 50 years in postmodernism, not modernism, the art that followed the titans of the early-20th century was defined and even named after what preceded it (daddy issues?).

Postmodernism isn't just "not modernism" or the art that happens after modernism. Postmodernism is art that only makes sense in the context of modernism. It involves pastiche, genre criticism and meta-analysis.
Once you hit 22% of the principle paid off, the PMI must be automatically ceased. Once you have hit 20%, even if that is ahead of schedule, you can request that it be cancelled[1].

In many cases, however, if property values have gone up, or you have done work to the property, you can get the property reassessed, and refinance into a new loan based on the newly assessed value, and get rid of the PMI even faster than that.

This is what I did on my house - between the real estate market bouncing back after the financial crisis, and some renovations I did, after two years the value of my house increased almost 50%. My credit score had also gone up, and interest rates had gone down, so I also was able to get a better interest rate.

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/when-can-i-remove-p...
Do you have a reference for that first point? I couldn't find it on Google, but would be interested to learn about it.
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"manufactured" is the modern equivalent of a mobile home. You're referring to "modular"

https://www.claytonhomes.com/studio/defined-mobile-manufactu...
You mean like the recent issue that affected over a hundred papers because they assumed Python's glob module returned files in a sorted fashion and they depended upon the order the files were processed?
I often feel the same way.

When you search for anything to buy on Google, the first 10-15 links are for Amazon. Type in the manufacturer and the list dwindles to about 5-6 Amazon links, which is absurd. If I'm looking for Bose headphones or Adidas shoes, shouldn't the actual manufacturers site be page page 1, #1?

I would think so, but it's not the case anymore.
How does that work? Can I purchase it with my credit card?
The NYT hit piece came out when I worked at AMZN. I was honestly shocked and surprised at how the company was described because it didn’t match my experience nor those of anyone I knew there. It was the first time I’ve personally experienced Gell-Mann amnesia, except I didn’t forget.
Is Blizzcon streamed in China? I agree - nothing will happen. They'll likely heavily filter what they broadcast in China if they do stream there, and that's about all they can possibly do.
The portion with the trolley problem doesn't make sense as described.

> “A trolley is barreling down the tracks to which five people have been tied,” I explain during our second meeting. “You can flip a switch and divert the trolley, but you’d kill someone else who’s been tied to the sidetrack.”

I ask a young woman named Kierstin Davis what she would do. (It’s her real name—all of the students quoted here consented to participate in this article.) “I probably would flip the switch because I know less people would be killed,” she says. Almost all of her fellow students concur, albeit reluctantly. The notable exception is Jackson.

“You kill the one person,” he says without hesitation.

I don't understand — aren't the students all saying the same thing? Kierstin would flip the switch (which means divert the trolley and kill the one person), and Jackson would kill the one person. Am I missing something?
You are partially correct (and maybe more so with this product). But there are types of engineered woods and beams made from glued and pressed stick lumber/boards. Imagine the concept of plywood but with several 2X6s to replace a true 6”x12” beam which would be 1) not as dimensionally stable as wood naturally warps and 2) needs to be milled from a much larger tree. Engineered woods that are not made with harsh chemicals like Formaldehyde are often ligher, stronger, and can be made from younger, new-growth timber stands. We have a nostalgia for pure lumber but engineered woods are really a better building material for certain situations.
Yep but you have to pay for the labour from the many inspectors who have to verify it's correctness and the legal cost for properly filing all the paperwork to legally allow the structure to stand.
Taxis (including Uber+Lyft) are such incredibly bad drivers. They rarely signal turns, often fail to stop at signs, and make sudden unannounced stops inside bike lanes.
There's a midwestern chain of home improvement stores, Menards, that will sell you all of the materials to build a house as well: https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/books-buildi...

Though I don't know anyone who's actually bought one.
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Idk, iPhone Contacts app isn’t a crm, but it seems to work otherwise.
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$5 would have been the deal breaker for me.
Are most people like this? I’ve always struggled with having myself fall asleep before 10:00pm even as a preteen. I once tried putting myself on a schedule for two months, but I’d just lie awake until later at night when I’d finally doze off.

The moment I got into university and could move my schedule my GPA went up two grades.
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It was certainly Anders, no idea about whom you are talking about.

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/anders-hejlsbe...

Again, I never had to enable anything on VS to generate COM components.
I'm not saying teachers don't deserve to be paid more, but I was surprised to see how much Bay Area teachers make. It's public info for public schools.[1]

In Santa Clara County, with no experience, starting salary is $71000. It increases on a schedule each year up to over $131000.

Honestly, the job security, structured pay, and 3 months vacation per year is a pretty darn good deal.

[1] - https://www.santaclarausd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ash...
> Protected characteristics i.e. things you can't use as a basis for discrimination are things that people can't change about themselves.

That's not true, the list of protected classes includes religion, gender, familial status and veteran status. All things which people have control over.

But the point is we've already stomped all over any "right" a business has to deny service to someone. Instead of defending this right and the new age of corporate fascism that comes with it, why not go for something fully universal and remove a tool for CCP manipulation at the same time?
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or this is just fake news, the US can easily put this on CNN or FOX then Mr Trump wins the trade war easily the chinese will fight themselves
This. does not. belong. on HN.
Yeah, that works too. I was trying not to get too crazy I guess. And also just show all the various levels of "static".
Why is a wiring harness so expensive?
Chiang Kai Shek, and both founders of the Communist Party of China were educated in Japan
I took the author to mean that that Jackson was an exception because he was not reluctant, and instead spoke without hesitation. All reached the same conclusion, but only one seemed confident in the answer.
Xi's daughter goes to Harvard is common news. It wasn't particularly scandalous. She majored in English at Zhejiang University, which is a "C9" institution, aka Chinese Ivy League. C9 universities have academic connections to western institutions, including Harvard where she studies English translation. It makes sense to study English translation in an English school.

This is filler news from Taiwan with all the associated agenda and bias. Don't read too much into it.
Meetup.com is a truly horrible site and corporation. They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer. What do I mean by that? Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform. You can't shut down your Meetup either. Instead, you can simply resign as an organizer. This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else. It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members and also allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in. In this way, they hold your group hostage, not allowing you to leave, and thus committing you forever for their fees, even if you never run another event again.
What is the joke?
~$1400 a year.
Well, looks like she thinks Harvard is better than anything China has to offer.
When I was in grad school, I was 10 miles from home without a phone. I had been walking for miles, and eventually found a beat up old Galaxy-S3 on the road. I picked it up, turned it on, and it happened to still be logged into Facebook. So, I posted a new status on their Facebook account: "Hey, I found your phone -- give me a ride home if you want it back".

It worked. About a half hour later, I was sitting in their car, getting a ride home in exchange for the phone they lost, which I happened to find out in the middle of nowhere.