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Royalty gets grandfathered in basically. Of course all royalty got their land the old fashioned way: by rounding up a bunch of men from nearby villages and raiding their neighbors and killing enough of their subjects until they agreed to give it up. Or just outright killing the neighboring kings. War is not a new thing.

As long as Kings are content with what they have today we leave them be. It may be outdated and unfair, but its stable and usually not too terrible for the people. The alternatives may not be much better either, especially in countries with high levels of corruption. There is a hope that all monarchies will eventually crumble and be replaced by something more representative now that the concept of divine right seems quaint and out of touch, but power tends to be self supporting so it will likely take a long time.
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What a strange piece of corporate PR.
For true P2P identity there has been research happening for years on distributed PKI, resulting in specifications like DID[1] and the Sidetree[2] protocol.

1: https://w3c.github.io/did-core/
2: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/sidetree/blob/mast...
Anecdotal, but my relatives who live/grew up in the outer boroughs call Manhattan “the city”.
If you don't mind me asking, How long does a CI run take for you? How do you manage running CI with so many merges?

Our CI takes ~8 hours of machine/VM time, which is about 35 minutes of wall time with our current testing cluster (including non-distributed parts like building). We skip certain long tests during the day, so that brings wall time down to ~13 minutes. But we also test 2-3 branches with decent churn. So even if we're only doing post-merge CI based on the current state of master, we're still getting 5+ commits fairly often.

I want to get to a world where CI is run before and after each merge with master, on every commit (or push/pull), but it seems like it would take so much more resources and infrastructure than we currently have.
> Does everyone want a new alternative asset class that simply buys minority non-controlling stakes in smaller companies and just takes a slice of the dividends? Let's call it the SmallCoDividendsFund. Ok, show the world how you reliably return 8%+ every year from DHH's strategy and limited partners will be beating down your down door to give you more money! You don't have to write essays evangelizing the alternative investment thesis; instead, just invest real money in SmallCoDividendsFund, get awesome returns, and all the media outlets will provide publicity and encourage copycat investors.

I own startup equity, index funds, real estate, even a stake in someone's poker winnings. I model SaaS company valuations for fun. I would consider myself a sophisticated investor.

If you gave me access to a fund that acted sort of like Berkshire Hathaway, where someone went and picked out (with a careful eye) growth tech companies (that have also been derisked and had reached a point where they were profitable and self sufficient) that might not ever go public but would throw off cash, I would be interested in buying into such a fund, even if the shares were somewhat illiquid. You might even call it something catchy, like a "Continuity" fund. This is similar to how investors get exposure to SpaceX through a Fidelity fund that isn't publicly traded. Private markets are the new public markets, apologies to Matt Levine, without all of the hassle of being public (looking at you Tesla! 420 secured).

A problem that might be encountered is that more money doesn't necessarily generate more growth (depending on the market space constraints), so LPs beating down your door is a hinderance. You want long term investors who are happy to collect their cut while you're busy executing, not obsessing short term over share value.
> We're redesigning email from the ground up. Giving it a whole new look. A breath of fresh air.

It already had been done []

[] http://mutt.org/
> It had private browsing in 2005

I stand corrected.

> It added DDG as an option in 2014, while Chrome added it only this year.

There's a nuance here. Apple's list of search engines comes from a cryptographically signed file which only they can modify. Chrome allowed you to manually configure DDG, but omitted it from the pre-configured list of search engines that included Bing and Yahoo!.
Misdirection. The news is a spy was caught and who it was; not that the Soviet Union was attempting to subvert the Manhattan Project.
Wow, that's totally my bad (Write a lot of Go at my day job).

Can definitely fix that one. Will bump to 2.0.0 when I get home.
People pointing out "whataboutism" is incredibly tiring. It is IMO quite legit to point out related issues in western countries. It is potentially interesting and relevant, and it is always good to take note of the hypocrisy of the media.
Just how popular is Kubernetes?
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You use the phrase, “smart arse with cops”
My take is that not having been raised in the US, I treated them respectfully, but without subservience, and expected mutual respect. In Eastern Europe I’m fine, I accept that i’ve chosen to travel through a broken kleptocracy, and that the cops are gangsters. I’m not willing to accept the same in a democracy, I don’t pretend that any democracy meets the standards we would like them to, but I remain committed to holding ground on the advances we have made and hoping for more with each generation

This feels like conversation that could get personal and nasty quick. I don’t want that to happen, I get your point, if a problem is avoidable and you don’t avoid it, you’ve got to question why.

And do I really fail to submit out of democratic integrity or am I just stubborn? Honestly I don’t know.

Also I want to tell you about my friend, who when instructed to address Detroit police as ‘sir’ replied ‘I struggle to believe her majesty has granted you a knighthood’

He’s stubborn - he’s also ridiculously smart and charismatic, enough to talk his way out of a beatdown most of the time
Speaking of browsability, Google Images by far outshines the majority of webshops in search relevancy, SNR ratio, results per page and speed.
Many of the things are easier to check than to do. And where it isn't, you can have multiple people do the same thing.

And last of all: if you build a working relationship with the guys who do good work you can use them for more work.
With Chromebooks becoming more than a fringe platform, it will be harder to escape the well of Chrome's gravity; the Android support on Chromebooks still leaves a lot to be desired IME making the use of Firefox/Android on such a devices feel a bit of a sacrifice.
I meant someone who at least occasionally mentions a book they are reading / have read. This implies that they want to learn, much like a student.
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1. Yes, https://www.imperialviolet.org/2019/10/30/pqsivssl.html and https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/ describe actual experiments Google ran using randomly selected Chrome canary users against Cloudflare and indeed their test algorithms CECPQ2 and CECPQ2b are both hybrids built using ECC plus a post-quantum algorithm.

2. However at this present time there is a strong constituency (e.g. see morelisp's comment in this sub-thread) which is happy to blame cryptographic agility for problems it arguably had little or no part in, so you can expect them to fight this while of course not committing to any particular post-quantum crypto because they also hate being wrong and invariably if you pick one now you'll be wrong.
The ideal process for Shopify’s needs based on the constraints we have to work with (CI speed, deploy speed, rate of changes, etc).
In October 2010, the day after WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs, the New York Times ran a front-page article that essentially painted Assange as paranoid.[1] Here's the opening:

> Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London's rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.

> He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends.

This was the Times' lead article on the person who had just provided them with one of the biggest scoops in the history of the paper.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html
None of those articles cite the reason for the change as being media backlash, though. If that was the case, then why would Apple wait days in some cases, weeks in others, and years (according to you) for still others.

It's always resolved through either a change by the developer or a change in the review policy at Apple. Again, the statement is about the relationship between the developer and Apple. If anything, Apple will be less likely to cave or change a decision just because of media pressure. Otherwise, the countdown timer, podcast app, and South Park would have just been approved after the media got wind of it. You're literally arguing against yourself with that point.
Of course you have a right to use the services companies provide! That's the whole point of allowing them to exist. Your approach just gives power to capitalists they shouldn't have.

It's obviously not quite as clear-cut when it comes to relationships between individuals that have rights.
Interestingly, the ability to add a new search engine has been removed from Safari with the deprecation of legacy extensions.
Why does it have to be shocking? Is that the gold standard of news nowadays? That it has to be shocking, or else it isn't newsworthy?
And the news here to me is that the Spanish contractor was caught spying. So while it can be argued that the US spying is no news story, the spying by the security company is.
Do such checkpoints really help in the long term? An athlete begins to learn by doing and then watching others. There's no playbook there, he just begins by playing an abridged version of the pro. A highly successful athlete is the one understands his game on his own and not following what the sporting greats before him did. I believe ambitious journeys are a process of self-discovery. If there is anything that helps is learning from the mistakes of successful ones, learning from one's own mistakes and doing one's own best each day. It's a deliberate practice.
Such as?

Existing legality is not necessarily a good cause to dictate if a business should exist or not, as for some markets the law tends to lag society (i.e. federal law and weed dispensaries). This discussion isn't really about legality anyways, it's about market demand.
Quantum computers that can break traditional crypto do not exist. Whether post-quantum crypto exists today or not doesn't matter.
You're more right than the parent comment --- algorithm agility is, I believe, an increasingly discredited idea among cryptography engineers --- but there's truth to the idea that a serious PQC scheme is going to be paired with a conventional key exchange, so that a new lattice crypto attack won't break the whole handshake. That's not "agility" --- the schemes will almost certainly be hermetically sealed, one PQC KEX and one curve KEX --- but it does mean you can deploy PQC now without compromising your whole cryptosystem.

The big issue here is that this observation doesn't break the premise of the article. It remains true that we don't know enough about how real-world quantum computers, if they ever exist at scales useful to attack cryptography, will work.
Hey johnpowell thanks for the feedback! Are you referring to the student testimonials on the bottom of the homepage? We'll look into this.
That's not as outlandish as it could be, correct? That is unusual, but would you say outlandish? Perhaps irregular, but not 'outlandish'...

I also couldn't help myself. If you haven't been following the impeachment hearings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sezBhcnSxI0
I didn't have to agree to anything to develop for my handspring, just used gcc. I did have to click some agreement for the emulator ROMs but those weren't strictly necessary either. There weren't any recurring charges, app review process, or forbidden APIs either. I didn't have to buy a computer from handspring or palm and nobody could stop me or the authors that wrote books. I miss those days.
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Great! Privileged students. I wish I had learned more and especially earlier with Racket, than I did.

Having gone through the mainstream computer programming education, I can only look back with regret, at all the time I lost, because of mediocre education. How much more I could do or know today, if only I had started learning with courses and books, that actually teach core programming concepts and do not limit themselves with their choice of language.
> I guess I’m not fully understanding how a queue prevents this. Since you don’t have a full picture of the state of master until something is merged from the queue, how do the CI checks in the queue prevent things that branch-based CI checks wouldn’t prevent in a “develop” branch? With branches and develop, pull requests remain open until they can be assured they merge properly with develop as well.

The trick of the merge queue is that it splits the "merging a branch / pull request" in two steps:

1. Create a merge commit with master and your PR branch as ancestors.

2. Update the `master` ref to point to the merge commit.

Normally when you press the "Merge Pull Request" button, it will do those two things in one go. By splitting it up in two distinct steps, we can run CI between step 1 and 2, and only fast-forward master if CI is green.

This means that master only ever gets forwarded to green commits. And because the sha doesn't change during a fast-forward, all the CI statuses are retained. Only when we fast-forward will GitHub consider to pull request merged, so we don't have to "undo" pull request merges when they fail to integrate. If the merge commit fails to build successfully, we leave a comment on the PR that merging failed, and the PR is still open.

When we have multiple PRs in the queue, we can create merge commit on top of merge commit, and run CI on those merge commits. When once of these CI runs comes back, we can fast forward master to it, and potentially merge multiple pull requests at once with this approach.
With the important difference being that Assange is not a spy.

Edit: Downvoted for pointing out that Assange is not a spy. I'm honestly surprised by HN.
You mean like these three articles on it from the NYT?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/nyregion/parking-placards...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/nyregion/parking-ticket-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/nyregion/the-new-math-of-...
Some people with half a brain have extra strong neural connections
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What you're seeing is the fact that /j/ (English Y as in <you>) is a semivowel, which is paired with /i/ (English long-E as in <feet>). This means that the sounds are almost exactly the same -- the consonant version tends to be a bit more restricted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel

EDIT: Also, the Spanish <ll> as /ʒ/ (S in English treasure) is not nearly as extent in South America as you might think. It's still mostly limited to Argentina and Uruguay:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo#She%C3%ADsmo

EDIT EDIT: I misread the symbols a bit, and in other areas of South and Central America it's /ʝ/ instead of /ʒ/, which is not a very big difference at all. (Palatal vs postalveolar... Basically neighbors.)
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Sounds like Arizona here. Penalties are extremely harsh there.
I stand corrected. Don't even know the difference. I think every time I hear 'prince' for English royalty, I just automatically think "Prince of Wales.
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Agreed that it's interesting nonetheless.

I've been "joking" with my friends that I want to take a trip to Costa Rica to do Ayahuasca with them.

The "story" of how Ayahuasca came to be is quite fascinating:
Ayahuasca, the drink, is actually comprised of two plant-based ingredients. One of the ingredients supplies the "DMT" portion, but the effects would last a very short time (something like 20 seconds to a couple minutes. My numbers might be off).

Then they stumbled on this second ingredient, which grows in a completely different area of the jungle, which prolongs the effects of the first ingredient (I'm guessing this is the MAOI portion, but I'm not 100% sure). Combining these two ingredients into the "Ayahuasca" we know today, the experience went from short 30-second trips to these 6-12 hour "sessions".

The most interesting part is that the shamans claim it was the "plants" or the "plant spirits" that told them to seek out the second ingredient and combine the two.
Calling XBL a proprietary is weird when considering that it is published by w3c and that firefox is FOSS.

> Firefox has always been built with DOM, JS, CSS technologies, as the linked article calls out

I am aware of that (and imo, it was a mistake). That however does not mean that moving to more web-y stuff will not make the performance any worse.
THANK YOU. Immensely helpful to people with ASD, such as myself.
Services is one which annoys me a lot. I have a few around text edition and formatting, not having them in firefox is quite inconvenient.
My experience was that it made me look at omelette cooking in a totally new light. My omelettes aren't perfect, but I actually like them now. And my wife (who loves them) approves of the new technique. (I use cast iron and don't get the exact results, but they are greatly improved)
I recall playing with it, when I first heard about it: "You mean I can create a native-looking app that's actually browser-based?"...

This had to be sometime in the mid-late 1990s?

I recall the documentation about everything was "ok-ish" - enough for me to create a simple "app" and have it communicate with a "backend" using POST (IIRC) - nothing fancy, but I could tell it actually worked.

But at the time, I had to shelve it - and I was working with a VB6 application for my employer, and I mostly forgot about it. It was always in the back of my mind, though - and I knew that Firefox, Thunderbird, etc - still had support...

Today, it was just a legacy technology that never went anywhere, and it amazes me why it didn't. It's yet another example of something "ahead of its time"; it was frustrating to me back then as to why nobody was using it and making it better - especially when there was a "reference app suite" right there!

But no - we had to wait another decade or so for everyone else to "catch up" to the concept. Sigh.
The modern web certainly is.
Never ever wire money without second-channel verification of the destination account. You can lose all of it with no recourse.
I find it fascinating how Greek ф became th in English and then was again reinvented as F. But English still pronounce all of the Greek ф’s as th.
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"Hey I read about this personality test game thing on the internet the other day and I've been wondering if it actually works. Do you mind if I try it out on you?"

When I've done it for multiple people, I have each person give their answer for an item before moving onto the next section. This keeps it so everyone feels like they are participating (and usually I've had to talk very little besides reminding the prompt and keeping the circle moving, maybe ask some probing descriptive questions for short answers). Then once everyone has given their answers, reveal the 'meaning' of each thing one at a time, and ask people whether you think it is correct for them. The beauty of the test is that even if it's completely wrong - you'll learn about the person from their explanation of why the reading was off base.

Similar one "walk in the forest" https://forum.gateworld.net/threads/20610-A-walk-in-a-forest
It's not strange, it's laughably pathetic. This is how they want consumers to feel about 5G- bursting with anticipation and begging our corporate overlords for it.
It only states that it's "colored a dark sandy brown from hundreds of years of pollution and weathering". Maybe I'm being too literal, but I don't interpret this to mean that weathering and pollution are the only causes of all of its changes in the past 4500 years.
As a salesforce consultant of 8 years, I can say this could be huge. I'm so burnt out on Apex and it's limitations.

I just really hope it's included in the standard licensing. Will be tough to convenience companies they really need this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399389.

It's been done. Performs well.
SICP called it design by wishful thinking; I always liked that.
When I step back and look at my life, I have to say it is pretty good. I get agitated when I lose perspective and magnify some particular bad thing. Also, as a Christian, this gives me the ultimate relief, because I can step back and say whatever unimaginably horrible thing is happening God is ultimately in control orchestrating things for maximal good, of which maximal good is also at some fundamental level in line with my intuition of maximal good, so I'll be satisfied in the end of it all. And if God doesn't exist, then nothing matters anyways, so why worry? Either way, no reason to worry in any ultimate sense. Sort of like the opposite of Pascal's wager. Worry has no rational basis regardless of one's worldview.
Mark Manson's "Models" is a great read if you're looking for a non-PUA book about dating and attracting women in a healthy way.
I did that, but never used it. I still find pressing Ctrl to be more comfortable because it requires less movement.
Yes, but for most dumb trades, there is someone on the other end making a deal. So the 'dumb' trades would have to lean more towards selling rather than buying.

Perhaps pollution just makes one more pessimistic and therefore bearish.
I'm running Savio[1], which is my fourth small internet company I've run since 2007 (the previous three were sold).

At the risk of sounding cliche, the three skills that have been most valuable are:

1. The ability to build software that meaningfully solves a customer's problem

2. The ability to reach people who have the problem my software solves

3. The persistence to grind until we have a decent product and can regularly reach people who have our problem.

The above may seem like they're outcomes. But understanding problems and building solutions is a skill. Finding and reaching people is a skill. Grinding effectively is a skill.

Every other skill (writing well, communicating well, selling the visions, giving good demos and customer service) is in service of the above.

[1] - https://www.savio.io