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On the other hand, you really start appreciating 'D'rink, 'W'ear, 'E'at once you make it a bit further (progress in a dungeon) and get some experience with the game. It just saves time.

With a system based on 'U'se, you're trading using fewer keyboard keys for more keypresses. You need to prefix most of actions with 'U'. Even Crawl lets you carry a-z items. When the list of items grows big, you either lose time scrolling through it to find a potion, or need to press and extra key to filter potions. In Crawl, when you press 'e', it only shows you edible items.

And for people so keen to compare with natural languages, we don't say use a sandwich, use flour or use paperclip. Natural languages could get away with just having few verbs, but you would have to make communication longer to clarify. Incidentally this is how English looks for a non-native english speaker. While words may be shorter on average, you need to string more of them together to get the same meaning. An extreme case of this is Toki Pona, which by design has 120 words for you to combine. An intentionally simple language based on belief simplicity leads to happiness.

The bottom line: over-reliance on few keys means the interface is optimized for low learning curve, not for long term use. Think Nano vs Vim.

The bottom line 2: the article sounds like it's written by a new convert. Noun first has merits and areas where it's better, but it's not something that cures cancer.
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Cryptocurrencies provide benefits that banks do not provide. That's why people use them in the first place.
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The “nothing” is the one thing I find fascinating ~ maybe it’s our human brains that can’t get it but it just doesn’t work for me!

There has to be something doesn’t there?
In that case, I'd shy away from using language like

> "in order to get all the PR and hype coming out from it."

> "surfing on the climate change and greenwashing wave"

and

> "It is of course extremely convenient for them"

These are all phrases often used to signal that their primary motives are something other than what you are claiming to praise them for. (Indeed, you say as much: "mainly because it is their market niche and what brings them business.")

Yes, they're a business and to stay in business they to be profitable. What people choose to do to be profitable makes a difference.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/greenwashing

> "green· wash· ing ... expressions of environmentalist concerns especially as a cover for products, policies, or activities"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hype

> "hype: ...

> 1 : DECEPTION, PUT-ON

> 2 : PUBLICITY, especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind"
You're discounting the costs of maintaining system which allows fiat to keep it's value: 20% of the value of human productivity is spent maintaining the financial system.

Saying that you can transact fiat cheaply is a silly comparison: bitcoin can be transacted for free as well. It is flawed to compare the fractional expense of maintaining the entire system for Bitcoin against any value but the fractional cost of maintaining the entire financial sector: comparing against the cost to consumer without accounting for the system maintenance costs is fallacious.
It's the issue that should determine plus marketsize. Nazi symbols being sold or not is not going to push the needle. Pushing back on China for democratic injustices is what we should be doing.
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Terry Semel at Yahoo! was useless. Steve Ballmer didn't sink Microsoft, so he had some value.
Generally speaking, proprietary educational software cannot run under Wine and friends, mostly because it tends to be rather poorly written in the first place, full of Undefined Behaviour.

A lot of schools do generally offer standardised hardware & software. For example, at the last school I was admin at, we had a Lenovo range, and a series of programs to help poor families afford them. (Tablets at primary school, one kind of laptop at middle school and a more powerful laptop at senior school).

However, I still, in three years, could not force around a dozen teachers to understand the limitations of their platform. Official policy was actually that a teacher may not use a piece of software without getting it approved by IT - so that we could check it was compatible, and automate rollout across all the devices.

The problem, most simply put, is that teachers would get excited about a piece of software, build their entire curriculum around it, and not involve IT at any point in the process whilst simultaneously having no idea how software works.

This sore point wasn't isolated at all either, at conference when the entire town's IT teams got together (we exchanged talking points, software and regularly donated our older hardware to less-well-off schools), it was the most common anecdote, followed up by most school administrations being entirely unwilling to have IT's back when we would be unable to deploy a particular teacher's favourite software that wouldn't run on the accepted platform.
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One of the interesting things is that if everyone of us did manage to travel almost at the speed of light then time stops and you can be in universe wherever you want in matter of your seconds. In other words, whole universe just becomes giant wormhole and you teleport from wherever to wherever in matter of seconds at whim. If you reach to the edge of time dimension, the space dimension basically seize the exist.
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The problem is that Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to conflate "tight chains of custody for software distribution" with "we want to be a gatekeeper charging 30 percent on every sale." TBH, the number of dodgy (absurd subscriptions, me-too clones, toxic ads) apps on mobile platforms suggests they aren't even really capable of delivering that promise. If you really want to push your platform as "the place you can trust", especially for nontechnical people, you've got to go beyond signing to actual curation for content and quality.

Conversely, putting a huge financial and certification burden on developers hurts power users and enthusiasts-- how do you bootstrap a new programmer if he has to spend a week generating (and paying for) certificates and learning signing tools before he can emit his first "Hello World?"
The UK charges £400 per year per person when applying for an immigrant visa. Gives you access to the NHS, for what it’s worth.

Personally given a choice I would rather not have paid that because the NHS hasn’t been very helpful to me.
Any India based startup recieved email yet? Yc is conducting interviews in bangolore for the upcoming batch.
Only when all one expects from X is to manage xterms and position Windows, with some kind of 2D acceleration.
Then they are in huge trouble because Kibana is hot garbage. Nearly zero of the user experience goodness from Kibana3 has survived the Elastic aqui-hire.
No, the mass-media that Chomsky discusses very much includes Hollywood, Jeff Bezos' newspapers, gaming companies and any other popular company producing media.

Of course there is in-fighting amongst the elites. But there is no group of elites that is willing to reduce the power of even a different group in favor of 'the masses'. The NY/DC media moguls may want to take SV down a peg, but they wouldn't want to see, say, FB become a worker's co-op, or Jeff Bezos to start paying 90% progressive income tax.
And deliveries, not just your amazon prime 2 hour service, but for shops to restock, and building sites to handle tons of equipment, cement, rubble, etc?
Personally I've read "world leader" in this context as meaning "leader who acts at a world level". Like neither Trump nor Putin the leaders of the entire world but they are not equal to the Mayor of Sidney BC.
Why not colocate your database queries and business logic inside of your view/template/stylesheet? Just put it all in one file.
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The financial sector is 20% of global GDP. Bitcoin is much less than 20% of world carbon emissions.

Further, fiduciary duty of corporations to maximize shareholder profit has led to almost every environmentally harmful exploit of externalities. I'd argue that the stock market is fundamentally responsible for 99% of all pollution.
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This is pretty good too.
Its not a rifle, its not a pistol, its "Any Other Weapon" apparently.

This is literally how arbitrary our regulations are.
Criminals don't care about regulations, its proven over and over.
1% for the Planet is an incredibly positive and powerful collective of businesses.

If you own a business, please join. If you're an employee, please share it with your leaders. It's a small cost in the grand scheme of things, especially for a crucial cause. B-Corp is another group I strongly suggest looking into.

1. https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/

2. https://bcorporation.net/
My high school had a fairly large deaf program. I took Latin with a majority of the students being deaf/hearing impaired. Best part was watching the translator relay my smart-ass jokes to the other students. I’d say something and a half minute later get people grinning at me. It was a fun experience and helped prepare me for performing in other countries.
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“The world would be better off if you were dead” is an opinion, not s threat: it states no intent of future action.

> Context is important "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?"

That's not a threat, it's a solicitation; it requests other to engage in rather states an intent to carry out future action. But “the world would be better off...” is neither, on its face.
I can't speak for every country but in most of Europe the opposite is the case. You'll be asked for preexisting conditions - but only once you register for medical care, and only to ensure good information and proper care. For immigration the main concern will be whether you have the means to support yourself (i.e. a job in the country or independent wealth) and whether you are assimilated (language, culture) before you get permanent residency or nationality.

In most EU countries even tourists can receive free/cheap care at public hospitals - but check for the specific country before you travel.
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How interesting, thanks
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Take into account that babies swim underwater without any training, and children can see under water in the ocean (I used to be able to). I'd say modern life has made us less water - friendly.

I also like the idea that consuming fish and shellfish contributed to our brain transformation, given omega 3 is highly beneficial for healthy brains.
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> So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him

That refers to free will (which humans have, but animals do not), not physical shape.
This is really 'blue pill' stuff. It's like discovering product placement in movies. Once you see it, you can't unsee it again.
Not true at all.

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It’s mostly a question of accounting for intuition I think. Most people have the intuition that it’s very plausible for our model to be slightly off at larger scales than previously understood—and that it’s implausible for a bunch of weird shadowy invisible matter to somehow exist everywhere. It doesn’t help that the history of physics largely consists of our model being slightly off at larger—or smaller—scales than previously understood, and then replaced with a different model that can be approximated by the previous model but is more precise. Like generals preparing to fight the last war, people are prone to think we’ll solve these mysteries in the future the exact same way we solved them in the past.
Come on, there’s a difference between building a service or a tool that ends up getting used for problematic purposes (ISIS used lots of Toyotas, is Toyota evil?) and knowingly allow and even even enable problematic purposes (imagine if Toyota recognized ISIS as a rising power in the Middle East and started selling them trucks).

We can always replace words in other peoples’ statements to make them sound silly, but I’ll roll with it.

What if these roads provided, as part of the government’s offering, rest stops and gathering points exclusively for murderers? — Just like how a social network allows problematic groups people to gather and enable them.

What if certain schools accepted money from anyone and in exchange taught kids any curriculum, including murder? — Just how some services bombard people with outright lies, because special interests pay them to.

If your service has a massive reach and influence you can’t just say “nope, we don’t do politics”. It’s simply not honest.
If you can just go find something new to be passionate about then you're not really passionate about it.
Yeah, taken in the most widely possible way, politics is anything that you say or do outside of your family - so it becomes the absurd injunction of "no communication or work allowed at work"...
> My dream is that one day most streets ... will be closed to car traffic and replaced with green space full of trees, flowers, children playing, and usable public space.

While I share that dream, and rarely ever need a car myself, I cannot currently imagine a better alternative to having a personal car in your home for the following situations:

• The most obvious: People who need to be chaperoned: children, the elderly and people with disabilities.

• The next most obvious: Medical emergencies where you don't have to (or don't want to) wait for an ambulance.

• Privacy for groups of people, with group activities (e.g. playing music, making out) confined to the automobile's enclosure.

• Following on the previous point: Going out with the whole family as a single unit, with provisions for taking care of infants etc. right there.

These can be solved if/when fully automatic on-demand cars become widely available, that anyone can request anywhere anytime with a tap on their phone and don't require passengers to learn how to drive. (But I'm afraid they'll be a huge privacy leak, with companies scrambling to record everything that happens in their cars.)

Almost everything else, like shopping, can already be taken care of with current technology and services just fine (e.g. home delivery.)

Until we get Star Trek teleportation.
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Except I'd put far more stock into gold coins (or gold in general) as a store of value.

But that's just me.
> Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about, yet are trying to create comparisons that will mislead others that are uninformed.

Nonsense. I live in Singapore, have friends and coworkers in HK. This subject comes up on a near daily basis. On my Twitter feed I especially follow @Pinboard for a perspective on this, every day.

Basically you failed to read my sentence, THEN became condescending. I am aware of what lead to the protests, how the protests look like, I'm exposed to pro and contra opinions every day. Am I an expert? Certainly not. But I care and do think I'm largely aware of the events. I just effing don't want - you even quoted it, although you missed the point - ANY political agenda in game streams. Note the word "game" in there?

At no point have I shown any sort of disinterest in the situation in HK (or political situations anywhere), I merely expressed my strong preference to not cram them forcefully and unsupported into any game stream.

(I don't believe that there's any way to make a comparison about Saudi/Rape victims, but my "No" was certainly low effort. So was your reply above, honestly)

(Addendum while rereading before hitting reply: It seems you also believe that I think HK wants to leave China. While there is a minority that argues for that, I am aware that this isn't part of their demands. My comparisons were made based on the GPs "Free HK" - which my English parser equals with "Liberate HK" not "For a (more) free HK". Even if we only talk about giving regions substantially more authority/liberties, my argument still stands: It was that "Free HK" is actually quite a complex thing as far as I'm concerned)
And if you did that, people would unfriend/unfollow you. Problem solved.
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I'm sort the opposite (re dark matter and dark energy looking wrong)- although I agree that too many scientific theories are inherently arrogant. I mean, yes we certainly could be wrong and they could be a hacky solution. But...

I look at some of the more fundamental discoveries of the past, especially things like radiation, electricity, molecular structure, etc, and wonder what it must have been like to not have a basic understanding of those principles. "Those people were such primitive idiots, they didn't even understand that water is h2o!" Or something like that. Then I look at stuff like dark matter, and it all of sudden makes sense. We're idiots, too. That's what it feels like.

Einstein never really got comfortable with the real world implications of relativity, outside of the math. And of course he straight up hated quantum probability.

It's really intriguing to me that of the the fundamental forces, we've been able to do so little to manipulate gravity. Hell, we can barely even measure it precisely. The most we've done with it is figure out how to sling satellites with flybys. I'd say we're Ben Franklin in the lighting storm, but I don't know that we're even at that level of understanding. He at least had a testable idea.
You might have to define "good". There are plenty of jobs in cities all over the world. Some, like Jakarta, have a booming tech industry, but may not be as livable or high paying.

What are your goals? To sit on a million dollars? Or buy a house by the lake, send your kids to Harvard? Creative independence? I make a good sum off a $25k salary, but living quality is high enough that I'd probably turn down a $150k salary at the Bay.
Doesn't that describe almost any unsolved problem in physics?
I found two verses in which a throne and clouds are related to God:
Psalm 97:2 - "Clouds and darkness surround Him;
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne."
Job 26:9 - "He covers the face of His throne,
And spreads His cloud over it."
Of course, I'd think that "throne" is used to evoke the idea of sovereignty rather than a literal throne. There's also the whole of Revelation—I won't try to interpret in a mere comment—but includes plenty of thrones and clouds such as in Revelation 14:14. And you can also find the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:9-22

At the beginning of this post (starting from Begin digression), there's an exploration of anthropomorphic metaphors that might interest you:
http://www.wall.org/~aron/blog/god-and-time-iv-impassibility...

Also, have you read The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton? It has some ideas found in your comment regarding the Incarnation and it is overall a fun read.
Yeah, you're right. People just have to accept that back when we were living in caves, women did the child-rearing, and men did the computer programming, and by now it's hard-wired into our nature. If you doubt this, it must be because you don't believe that men and women differ biologically at all.
Sure; the possible result that the physical universe is fundamentally uncomputable is the result I find interesting.
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> Why can't you criticize your own model, though? Your assertion that hiring more women will lower standards is premised on a belief that men are inherently better

Why couldn’t you criticize your own model of what you assumed the guy you were replying to was talking about?

He said nothing about women being inferior to men

The fact that you seem to think that challenging your own assumptions is so easy while at the same time being fully incapable of doing so is pretty damned rich
Do you use a search engine? Social media? Any modern online game? A connected smart home? A smart phone without its privacy settings altered? A modern flat screen tv? A modern car? All of them do behavioral extraction in one form of another. Often under the guise of entertainment.

To single out Ingress or Pokémon Go seems to ignore the much bigger problem.

And, as an Ingress oldie, it was a lot of fun. We planned for weeks to cover the northern hemisphere, preparing with people in four different continents. I’ve met people and seen parts of the world I would never have met or seen otherwise.
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"unprofessional to visit a buyer in person"

It might be unusual in the context, its not unprofessional, and in certain contexts associated with a premium service.
Just like with brand-name-clothing pressure that parents say they face in the west, most of this pressure is self-imposed and opt-outable.

Kids (and adults) will always find superficial things to form identity around and parents are making them a disservice by reinforcing it.

Today your kid could be bullied for their boring lunch box, next month it could be because the shape of their ears.
It's common on HN to include the year in the submission title if it's over a year old. As only the submitter or a mod can edit the title, commenters often prompt an edit as your parent did. It's not a comment on the worthiness of the submission: it's an aid to the readers.
in the same time there are dozens of free "Zodiak" and "Calendar" trial apps that charge 100+ usd a month after the first week....
I would encourage Github, Gitlab, and all the rest to continue working with ICE. There's a good chance the next administration will want to prosecute ICE for human rights violations and good version-controlled records of who did what when will be essential.
Who says Internet of Things is for smart homes?
No guarantees, but in Germany as long as you are registered (resident from an other EU country, refugee, asylum seeker) as opposed to a tourist you are covered. Access to health care is, unfortunately, a different story for people in refugee centers. But you are covered. No strings attached.

There is no way to be a legal resident without public heath insurance here. Which route you choose, public insurance, public as part of your spouse, private is up to you. If you cannot afford it because you are, say, unemployed the state covers the costs for the public model.

Also worth noting, the public model doesn't exclude pre-existing conditions which can make private solutions prohibitively expensive.
This reminds me of the classic mafia style of management; "Nice profit you got there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it."