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You are making a mistake.

Mother Nature has no logic. Or rather, if she has logic, it's the logic of simple chromosomal propagation on galactic timescales. She just keeps propagating different combinations and permutations of genes blindly. Then, for instance, if some cataclysmic environmental change happens she ruthlessly culls all of the gene combos that are not able to survive the new environmental reality. Or it could be a new predator. Or a new asteroid strike. Or a new bacteria. Or what have you.

Point is, in the case of our species, she doesn't make people "dumber", or "smarter", or "faster", or "stronger", or "slower", or "darker". She just blindly makes people. Of as many kinds as she possibly can. So that when the change roulette wheel spins, she's already laid bets on every number on the table, black and red alike. Thus giving her the best chance at a win. If I believed in this sort of thing, I might say that Father Time has taught Mother Nature that the shotgun approach is the best survival bet she can make. (And he probably taught that lesson the hard way.)

Contrast that blind propagation strategy against what we would be doing, which is laying odds on certain, but not all, numbers on the hypothetical roulette table. You can kind of see why people might question the wisdom of such a targeted strategy.
Hey, this is kind of unrelated, but the other day you mentioned "Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow". May I ask what brought that to your mind, since the book was published years ago?
I've seen many advocates of C++ claim that RAII [0] is a viable alternative paradigm to garbage collection or even a silver bullet to resource management in general. I find it's useful but I don't believe it's a silver bullet, yet my skill level is not high enough to come up with a counterargument, but you may find this approach interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...
Indeed. And rumour is they've stopped doing them now.

On the VFX side of the industry we were often jealous of Pixar and Dreamworks being able to do shorts, in terms of having the scope and ability to test out new tech / pipelines.
> takes less than 5 minutes to unsubscribe and switch

Not if you have ADHD. Subscriptions are one of the worst prisons imaginable.

The new streaming reality is quickly turning into hell.
Generics and compile time computation. I think Rust should achieve feature parity with c++ templates and constexpr.
Boats already float
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Itaipu (or comparable impoundages such as Three Gorges) provide both capacity, indicated as installed GWe of generating capability, a measure of power, and storage, indicated as GWH of energy generation. These are equivalent to the capabilities of an automobile's engine (power) and fuel tank (storage).

Hydroelectric projects also virtually always provide additional services such as flood control, irrigation water, recreation, and waterways management (ensuring water flows, etc.), which also account for design elements including scale, etc.

Pumped hydro should provide a sufficient level of both capacity and storage, though in general the storage requirements are far smaller than traditional hydroelectric dams aimed at generation. There are quite small pumped hydro facilities, the compensation being that water levels can rise or fall considerably, often many metres in a single day's storage/generation cycle.

Gravity is in general a weak force, but water is relatively massive, largely non-toxic, and can be utilised through large-scale pump-generator units (~800 MW per generator IIRC), which is a scale few other options can match. Again, on balance, pumped hydro is a good solution, there's just not enough of it to go around.
It's not like Mulan was focused on being pretty and waiting for a prince either. Or Brave(not pre-2000, just not recent), or even Pocahontas.

I feel if anything the "pretty is everything" comes from toys, rather then the movie plots themselves.
Came looking for this. Then watched his channel for an hour. Hands down a great primer of what to expect in jail and why you (yes you) should have money set aside to stay out.
Some people are known to live and work outside of California.
I saw this when I saw Finding Dory. The sea foam was so good! I geek out about digital animation and was absolutely blown away.

I'm not ashamed to admit I teared up a bit at how good it was.
Yes but let's pretend dating is only about love instead, and that intelligence is not well defined so that everyone can feel good.
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I absolutely disagree, you are making a major incorrect assumption about why I have the opinions I do. I readily engaged with SJW activists and helped organize/participated in numerous events and protests. I know EXACTLY what they are like, and it isn't propaganda that causes me to think of them in this light, it was being around them and trying to work together with them in common cause that caused me to have this attitude.

Normal people can hold social justice opinions and go about their business normally like you say, but these people are not at all what I'm talking about in this discussion. And yes I would say that the general population is NOT chock full of the type of SJWs I hung out with in college. I would know.

Cite me a statistic if you want to convince me otherwise.
I like to point people towards Malcolm In The Middle. It's actually a very optimistic take on the struggle for a vast swath of American families; certainly not an exaggeration of the difficulties.
They're technically not holograms but Pepper's ghost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Calling them a hologram is like calling a lenticular a gif.
I never claimed it's neutral, breakin the law is not and should not be neutral in this country. So I don't see the point you are making any more and, I am sorry to say that, not interested to learn it.
Mantis(by Netflix): platform for realtime stream processing applications
Missed that completely, thank you! Now for a certain backwards northern state to implement this so I don't have to take my wallet into gigs and nights out at all...
The Roy Holorbison backup singers sounded so bad I thought they were intentionally trying to show what a bad idea this is.
> A translation is basically offloading all that to a team of scholars.

Those same scholars would say the same thing: You can not understand the original intent from a single translation. (For example some words have multiple meanings, and all the meanings are intended.)

Translations have different purposes, some are intended for smooth reading, or poetic language, or literal direct translation (never mind if it's hard to understand), or easy comprehension.

And ALL of them are valuable! If you have a specific need, pick the translation that matches your need.

But, for study, to really understand the material you need more than one, and in particular you need notes and explanation.
All criminal records should be sealed to the public as long as there are no truly egregious (violent/murder/etc) crimes.

Society can't expect people to do their time and integrate back if it never gives them a chance. The lifetime branding of "felon" is one of the biggest issues in recidivism and creating career criminals.
"thoughtful"

does anyone else feel thoughtful is some sort of strange silicon valley newspeak?

whenever I read thoughtful these days it feels like a bland euphemism that covers and conveys something more specific than the not specificity it suggests, possibly even a little dangerous.

actually there's a word for terms like this: dog whistle.

would any silicon valley insiders break ranks and reveal to the world what thoughtful actually conveys?
At the bottom of the article:
UPDATE (November 7, 2019): Thanks to the wizards at the Internet Archive, you can now play Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator right in your Web browser.
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The article states:

>Under New York State WARN act labor regulations, employees are promised 90 days of paid notice or leave if they are laid off en masse.
In one sense, they're not copyrighting the Bible itself, just the years of scholarly and commercial work that was put into making the ESV. Paul (and Deuteronomy) says "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain".

On the other hand, it's hard to argue that Bible publishers' spammy newsletters and aggressive copyright protection amount to much more than Simony.
Fun fact, what you're describing it's called dechunking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology) And ofc, rubber duck debugging too. ^_^
I had that too. Also they were negotiating down every last estimate while we were doing "planning poker" which was only a façade and was really us committing to unrealistic man-hours estimates unwillingly.
Ask HN: Why Is the US Naval Observatory Website Offline?
It was unavailable due to TLS/SSL errors two days ago, and still is. "The connection was reset."

Is there some de-funding going on that we need to know about? WTH.

Site,
https://aa.usno.navy.mil/
Uhm, they did... but many of us refuse to accept 1-3
> this is still explicit/userland asynchronous programming: If anything down the callstack is synchronous, it blocks everything. This requires every components of a program, including every dependency, to be specifically designed for this kind of concurency.

Welcome to the 1980s world of cooperative multitasking, but now with "multi-colored functions."
My hunch is that, at least as far as the originals are concerned, Disney+ will only have the butchered-Gredo-never-shoots versions of 4-6. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor and track down Harney’s Despecilized Edition of 4-6 those are the only versions worth watching.

Edit: corrected the version numbers, dunno what I was thinking when I first typed the comment.
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I wonder if PTFE coatings would serve as an effective bottom coat, I've never heard of it being used on sailboats but it seems like an obvious avenue to explore.

The tech. described in TFA sounds like something that would make for an awful bottom coat, since such surfaces tend to promote growth by providing something attachable.
I read this as the xkcd comic about the matrix and smiled.

https://xkcd.com/566/
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Scalability which you only need because it’s slow as hell...
Seems less useful in languages with strong static type systems?
That's true, but you're locked in to the savings plan, whereas you can sell RIs
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Wow. Office background noise mute.

The headphones can filter out speech that isn't above a certain threshold. Coworkers nearby can be heard loud and clearly.

Music can play at volume then quiet itself when it detects a person speaking directly to you.

Maybe even a training button to inform it that it is false-positive-ing background noise, or true negative and silencing a co worker you would like to hear.
The NIO version of Swift gRPC is currently at v1.0.0-alpha.6. Hopefully we'll see a 1.0 version soon.

Swift gRPC repo: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift
I think the concept also works with displaced water, those hydrophobic surfaces create air containers that make the whole thing lighter.

But why so complicated? A 10cm metal hull seems much safer than a 5mm opening with hydrophobic coating.

Also with a chamber system ship's can be made pretty robust and almost unsinkable.
Let's track the argument from the top of the thread.

> "...And I agree we should use ads to promote our own products, but I'd still block companies that compete with our core from gaining any advantage from us. I'd also keep blockingGoogle but otherwise wouldn't extend the block to anyone else."

> "These actions may look anti-competitive, but these companies are all foreign (China, South Korea, Japan)."

> Explicitly mentions Google.

> Google has a bigger ad network than Facebook so how is that a monopoly?

Do you find this statement anti-competitive: "I'd still block companies that compete with our core"?
I'm going to suggest you think through what I've written, the general problem of power grids, generation, and storage, energy uses, and consequences of power outages. The answer may reveal itself to you.

Likewise, you seem to have failed to grasp what I'd hoped would be a rather evident reason for mentioning the Netherlands in the context of pumped hydro and terrain.
I don't have much advice in the way of torrents. As I said, I am using usenet now instead. It's a direct download instead of p2p, so you're not seeding and you don't need a VPN to hide you as long as you're using SSL connections to usenet. Since it's a direct download and I pay for the connection to usenet provider, I can almost saturate my gigabit fiber connection pulling new content instead of waiting for enough peers to trickle kbps to me. To get started, you'll need at least one Usenet provider (paid) and at least one usenet indexer (usually paid) to help you find content. I'd recommend checking out the /r/usenet subreddit for more details. Especially their FAQ (https://www.reddit.com/r/Usenet/wiki/faq).

For my stack, I've got a Synology NAS device which is running docker versions of the download managers Sonarr and Radarr, the download client NZBget, Ombi for user requests and Plex for streaming to devices.
This post on the Swift forums gives a good overview of Swift gRPC: https://forums.swift.org/t/discussion-grpc-swift/29584
It's in poor taste to superciliously diss the community while participating in it. Since you're commenting here, you're as much "HN" as anyone else is.

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The worst thing about this system is that if your battery dies, well you can’t prove your identity.

I guess cops carry chargers now ?
> australianmuseum.net

Why am I not surprised?
Once upon a time, Disney made films. Now they just make money.
Huh. I’d call TLJ the first interesting SW film since Empire. TFA was typical Abrams—ok in the moment but brain dead beyond forgiveness as you start to think about it as the lights come up. Lazy writing even by his standards, and I don’t just mean the “copying ANH” thing. Solo was straight up awful. Rogue One had great potential and didn’t live up to it, but was OK. Gave me Star Wars Feels a couple times, which is more than I can say for any of the others but TLJ (only one to achieve the thing where they make you care a ton about several rebel pilots, and characterize them, by giving you about 3 seconds with each, since Empire, and the best of that since ANH).
I understand, my preference is Elixir but while fast enough and scalable, it is a memory and cpu hog.
No doubt it will be touted as a way to protect civilians from the effects of war, apart from those civilians who look a bit like someone else or have upset someone who has access to the system.
Skippy's email is worth reading. As is the never mentioned instagram account.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37543
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Uh, even if you're right, the US is full of the 40+ people and their eye balls are high monetizable.

Even more, TV networks are just an example and it is fricken obvious that Facebook doesn't have an advertising monopoly in the US or world-wide.
But this is enforced by the users themselves to 99%. This is a very fundamental difference.
Its hard to estimate without breaking it down to smaller tasks and this process is laborious. This process assumes we are tackling stuff in which we already have expertise.

The rule of thumb i use - anything which takes more than 3 days needs to be broken down further into tasks. If any task takes more than 3 days during execution then it needs to be broken down to more tasks.
You made me think of portable reflective whiteboards, with foldable stands... :-P
Yup. Everything in Australia looks scary AF, knows how to play dead and kill you.
Constitutional Republic, so no, we are not a democracy, and furthermore the men who founded this nation and established the government thereof rather despised democracy as tyranny of the ignorant masses.
Unfortunately that does not seem to be what they have done, i.e. no signatures involved.
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I am not sure this is true. The latest Spiderman is basically Hanna Montana with superpowers.

Compare with the previous two versions or even Spiderman: into the spiderverse.
It sounds incredibly toxic, though - Polytetrafluoroethylene.

Would be nicer to just point lasers and the existing cans or glass bottles and be done with it.
> When the company buys the house you live in is that an employee benefit?

Yes, when the company owns it and keeps the house (potentially assigning it to your successor) when you leave the position, absolutely.
Judicial Watch is most undoubtedly fake news:
https://www.mediamatters.org/judicial-watch

"Judicial Watch was founded in 1994 by the anti-Clinton conspiracy theorist and prolific litigator Larry Klayman and during the 2016 election, it regularly pushed misinformation about Hillary Clinton. The organization and its president, Tom Fitton, have become shills of President Trump since he took office, and Fitton regularly appears on Fox to defend Trump."

Maybe try using a reputable source next time.
I took that to mean that your licence app will work offline, but not that it will validate offline.
I don't understand why this isn't obvious. Predictive analysis works if you have correct set of data. DOJ is biased towards African Americans, their data is skewed + you can't really predict what someone could do.we are humans and not rule following robots.
Real ID is completely different from this, it's totally unfair to compare the two.
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You can also check Abandonia.
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It's hard enough to estimate accurately when you are building your own project with no one breathing down your neck. But be a contractor, where your estimate becomes your salary, and you'll find that you tend to give longer estimates.

I once gave a 3 days estimate for a client project. 2 days to make sure I build it right and a third for testing. It turned into a 7 weeks project: https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
Does the app encrypt the blob? Presumably, because otherwise why have a serial.

Wonder if they can fall victim to validate after decrypt attacks.
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Well the severance is handled. As for the rest, what would shutting it down accomplish?

Technically they haven't taken anything from anyone since they never went public so it's just an expensive portfolio company for Softbank and the other investors. If they feel they can turn it around then why not? Meanwhile all those people continue to have jobs.
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An id by mail should suffice, after all you have to live at that address to get the mail.

If you're homeless you should be able to give a thumbprint to validate your identity.

I mean we could technically just have a DB of thumbprints, that are ONLY tied to the fact that you are a citizen of x town. No name, address, etc.. So there's no way the db could be used against you by the NSA or FBI etc... But no matter what you can get a ballot even if you forget your id at home.

Or make it so same-day registration and id registration at voting places is a thing and make early voting standard so you have from October 1st through the 2nd Tuesday of November to vote. You can register at ANY voting booth, if you do not have ID your ID will be setup there as well for FREE.
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They pretty much already do this. The end result is tourists literally running to the room the Mona Lisa is in once they get inside the museum. It's madness.
Possibly related to this notice on the front page of the main USNO site [0] (assuming it loads -- I received a "can't connect to the backend" type of message at first)?

> The USNO websites aa.usno.navy.mil, ad.usno.navy.mil, aristarchus.usno.navy.mil, maia.usno.navy.mil, rorf.usno.navy.mil, and toshi.usno.navy.mil are undergoing modernization efforts. The expected completion of the work and return of service is estimated as 30 April 2020. Please submit a requirements form to the USNOPAO if the information you are seeking is not accessible via other means.

If it's not because of that, I'd assume it's just the same ol' problems we've all experienced with random web sites before.

[0]: https://www.usno.navy.mil/
Okay, I'll bite. Overpopulation certainly could be a concern in the future, but we aren't there yet, and things seem to be moving in the right direction. Over the past half-century we have seen birth rates dropping fast, particularly in the "third world", and many "first world" countries are already below replacement rates. Add in the fact that the average human has a dramatically smaller environmental footprint than the average American, and it becomes clear that the problem is not the number of people, but the inefficient use of resources. We have enough to provide for everyone, it just isn't evenly distributed.
>Technically speaking, anyway. Here’s a type for “strings that end with a dot”:

These are just two functions that wrap and unwrap a string. Your "type" doesn't generate a compile-time error when constructed with the wrong data. This doesn't even handle the simplest use case:

putStrLn (toString (fromString "something."))
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Kotlin's smart cast is nice in this context.

One example is with nullable types.
if you have
val foo: Whatever? // might be null and Whatever and Whatever? are two separate types.
foo.someMethod()// compilation error because foo is not of type Whatever

if(foo != null) {
foo.someMethod() // works because foo was smart cast to Whatever after the null check
}

In the same way doing a switch on a type smart casts the variable to that type. Smart casting of nullable types also gets rid of a lot of clumsy things like Optional, Maybe, etc. you'd need in other languages where you'd have to call a method to extract the value, assign it to a new variable, etc.
Yes, it’s displaced water... So I’m guessing the trapped air bubbles here increase the displacement of the water while only adding the weight of the air? It seems like such a small amount of displacement you’d get from these tiny air bubbles. Then again, those discs look super thin too.