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> Is this a real risk in parts of the country where old people need serious fire power to defend themselves?

I don't think the way to reason about this is based on "serious fire power" vs some other kind of weapon that you feel is more acceptable. All guns can be lethal.

If grandma feels unsafe, she might get a gun. I can understand how older people might want firepower when they know they can't physically fend off an attacker.

If you accept grandma's right to be armed, would you rather she use a more or less dangerous gun?

Most gun controls make the weapon less safe. It's similar to how people think sharp knives are more dangerous, but they're actually much safer than dull knives.

The way to think about it is that the round is doing most of the work. The gun is just a delivery system for the round, and besides fully automatic weapons, every other weapon choice is about safety, accuracy, and reliability.

A "Short Barrel Rifle" or "Short Barrel Shotgun" is easier to operate, and therefore more safe than a non-NFA rifle. They were regulated to make people feel better, not to add safety. The velocity of NFA SBRs is actually lower than the velocity of a bullet leaving a non-NFA 16" barrel.

A silencer is not silent, it's just hearing protection, but also requires an NFA tax stamp. They don't sound like they do in the movies, and there's no mistaking it's a gunshot.

Expandable stocks and foregrips are scary looking, but the whole point of them is to gain accuracy, which makes the gun safer. These are usually legal, but there are silly regulations around these too.

Larger magazines allow you to focus on your threat instead of counting your bullets. For now, these are legal, but banning magazines with large capacity is a common talking point.

The reason all of these items look scary is because we see military with them. But even in the military, they're not to make the guns more lethal. The whole point is operational safety.

If you don't think anyone should be allowed to have a gun, that's actually a more defensible position. If people are allowed to have guns, they should be allowed to have any gun and any gun attachment that improves their safety.
Kotlin will never replace Java, unless you are speaking about Android Java.
You can just rent servers. My problem is that I don't know the CPU time I need to run my app. If you say an app needs 100 or 100,000,000 CPU hours a month, I wouldn't be able to really verify that.

I don't know how cloud providers even measure the CPU-time. Probably from VMs. What about services like logging, health-checks and load balancer? Is there a position for that too?

At the end of the month I get an invoice from my providers that say that I needed X processing power. I have to believe it and just accept the price if it is worth it.

I am sure there is elaborate performance monitoring software out there, but I doubt many developers really verify the bills they get.

Providers could just randomly add a few dollars on my bills and I heavily doubt that I would notice. Not wanting to give them any ideas here...

So a rented server in the end gives you much more control about unknowns related to costs. Doesn't mean it has to be cheaper and is as easy to maintain.
Let me guess, you also think that Muslims are terrorists? Why are we so found of generalisations? A number of individuals engaging in a horrible activity, doesn't make them a representative of the entire group. You can be religious without condoning any of those things because they don't affect your daily life, which is true for most religious people I'd argue. I am not religious but I can see why someone would turn to religion to give them a sense of purpose in their life. That doesn't mean that they have to convert people.
>You're right, that information is captured by the median weekly inflation-adjusted earnings for wage and salary workers, which is actually at historic highs.

Like probabilities in research, with the right adjustments everything can be painted to be at historic highs.

First the graph starts at 310 and focuses on 310 to 360 on the y-axis, so that the meagre 330 (1979) to 355 (today) change (despite productivity/GDP etc soaring in between years) to seem huge.

Second, the inflation-adjustment heuristics are such a creative field for governments that can be used to paint pictures of wage triumph in the Weimar Republic even. Sometimes you don't even have to mess with the heuristic, just leave criteria the same when totally different costs of living have emerged.
Firefox Announces New Partner in Delivering Private and Secure DNS Services
Tom Scott did an interesting video on the topic recently: https://youtu.be/mOy8Xjaa_o8
I think it's possible to make fairly secure software but it's a massive change from the way software is put together today. Nobody really wants to pay for that.

Even stuff like OS research (which is what we need if we want a proper security model and a system not written in a horribly unsafe language) is virtually dead because the second you bring up some new experimental system, geeks are going to gang up against you with "what about my legacy proprietary applications, and what about drivers! this is worthless! everyone should just use linux!"
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Google Keep for todos & shopping list, Evernote for everything else.
Even though the mentioned companies are rather established businesses, kudos to the owners for still being fully in control.

I'm co-founder of a startup which is 100% privately owned, if that's what you're looking for: https://safing.io

Otherwise I'm interested in how many companies will show up here, given the (edit:) origin of this site. shrug
This isn't a standard term in consumer contracts nor business contracts.

As a user I would rather be able to sue in small claims court.

As a creator I wouldn't want to have the threat of unlimited extra costs if I have to sue.
The problem is that your method works well if the string is either:

- Only meant to be used in a machine-to-machine interface (like a JSON key for instance).

- Only meant to be used in a machine-to-human interface (like the text letting you know that you used a wrong password).

For strings that have a special significance to both humans and machines you can still run into problems, mainly because of the many unicode strings that look similar (or sometimes even identical) visually but are encoded with a different byte sequence. Take usernames or URLs for instance.

But in the end Unicode is messy because human languages are messy. As programmers we like well-bounded problems with elegant generic solutions. This clearly isn't possible here and we have to deal with it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4016067/whats-a-3d-doing...

Basically: it's a form of escaping, and like other forms of escaping the escape character itself has to be represented as an escape sequence.

So in other languages where \ is the escape character, you have to put \\ to represent an actual slash rather than the start of an escape sequence. Here = is the escape character followed by the hex of the character, so to represent a literal = it needs its own hex value 3D after it.
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Can we ban bad faith posters like this? This is pure flamebait.
How do you speed up your content creation process?
I think that very well may be true, but it definitely doesn’t match my own intuition based on what I’ve seen. I have seen extensive educational videos for free online about math, art (digital, painting, etc.), music (theory, composition, orchestration, specific instruments, production, etc.), writing, electronics, 3D printing, plumbing, construction and home repair, woodworking, language learning, aviation, filmmaking (visual effects, cinematography, acting, directing, screenwriting, etc.), marketing, entrepreneurship, investing and financial advice, etc.
Wow, that effect size. I'm amazed that the implications haven't been pursued vigorously, as it's so rare to get such an effect size in a clean, non-controversial (compromised methodology) experiment. As far as I can see, there's not much controversy around this result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

Note that 0x3D is the "=" character in ASCII, so "=3D" in QP is "=" in ASCII. :)

This email has probably been through a few conversions to QP and back again between different email clients. Perhaps some buggy client got confused between an ASCII "=" and a QP escape sequence or something like that.
That's not a particularly compelling argument. It suggests we should never attempt to solve any problem, because other smaller problems will continue to exist and we need to solve them to.
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YouTube doesn't, patreon doesn't, vimeo has a small claims exemption.

So, yeah, not at all universal
In my experience, yes. The rule to follow is to keep it simple and explicit. I have seen web request handlers that used a list method combination to save one line of code per handler for the price of less experienced devs spending 15 minutes and multiple failed attempts to explain their own 3-line handler the very day after they wrote it (not making this up).
Yes, I agree. The article's claim about app rev share offsetting big parts of the cost just doesn't make sense.

The reason that prices are lower is that manufacturing capacity is much higher, not supporting analog input saves money, vertical integration onto a handful of ICs, container shipping and supply chains are cheaper and Costco, WalMart etc will sell TVs for very low markup to drive traffic.
Delimited gotos. Many lacks proper looping constructs. CL has a package a macro that gives you a limited version delimited continuations which are handy for some situations.
> I think that’s how I operated as a kid in the summers, riding bikes and walking around town with friends until we needed to eat. I feel like those moments are underrated and very visceral, instinctual parts of the human experience.

This is exactly how I spent my youth, and I try to use how I felt those moments as a comparison for how engaged I with the real world at any point. If I find myself too decoupled from real life and too deep into work, I will extract myself by leaving the house without any devices or any place to be. I love those moments. I no longer carry a smartphone with me, just a standalone smartwatch for incoming calls, so that's actually made those moments to be any moment I'm not at my desk.

It's why travel, even local travel, is so important to me. I can live moment to moment, experiencing life in simple visceral terms. How do I feel right now, and what does that make me want to do? Well, let's do that then.
Bitcoin is totally secured and a good source of investment if you have the right information. According to report many leading economists, crypto enthusiasts like myself, definitely! bitcoin will reach six figures but it will only take time sooner than later. You do not need a lot of money to invest in bitcoin, trust me i started with a small amount and I have made so much money in just a couple of months. I made about 78,000 dollars on my first week and this would not have been possible without the help of my very good friend that introduced me to the best bitcoin investment platform online. I reached out to them via their email at..(Digitalassetsconsultancy AT hotmail com ) I communicated with them for about 6 hours and asked a lot of questions and they gave me great answers and I was very much convinced so I subscribed to their investment package. I received almost 2000 dollars the next day and I said to myself that I will take my time to share this with the world because I really believe in the blockchain technology and not just the money or gains. I was surprised at how much money one can make just by investing and not doing anything. Many many thanks to the digital assets consultancy team for helping out. My first wallet was hacked by online spammers and they helped me to recover it with my funds back in it. I humbly have to add this that I will be buying my first house next week, what more can I say Christmas gift came in very early lol : )
Yes, sadly. In this times it's more important for people to save 5€ on a new TV, than caring for their fellow humans or even the environment. shrug
There is no 100% interoperability with Java.

Try to call co-routines from Java, use SAM types with default methods from Kotlin, just for starters.
I don't get it. With Lets Encrypt, it's like one or two lines to get everything set up.

I'm guessing people aren't as lucky as I am to be running on newer machines and such.

I mean it even edits your nginx files to redirect http to https if you agree. It's not hard.
Bitcoin is secured and a good source of investment if you have the right information. According to report many leading economists, crypto enthusiasts like myself, definitely! bitcoin will reach six figures but it will only take time sooner than later. You do not need a lot of money to invest in bitcoin, trust me i started with a small amount and I have made so much money in just a couple of months. I made about 78,000 dollars on my first week and this would not have been possible without the help of my very good friend that introduced me to the best bitcoin investment platform online. I reached out to them via their email at..(Digitalassetsconsultancy AT hotmail com ) I communicated with them for about 6 hours and asked a lot of questions and they gave me great answers and I was very much convinced so I subscribed to their investment package. I received almost 2000 dollars the next day and I said to myself that I will take my time to share this with the world because I really believe in the blockchain technology and not just the money or gains. I was surprised at how much money one can make just by investing and not doing anything. Many many thanks to the digital assets consultancy team for helping out. My first wallet was hacked by online spammers and they helped me to recover it with my funds back in it. I humbly have to add this that I will be buying my first house next week, what more can I say Christmas gift came in very early lol : )
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I don't think that it's strictly the homeless, but rather that public transit is seen as a low class option that "the poors" have to use. Middle class people can afford nicer options and don't have to be associated with a "poor" thing. There are exceptions in a few cities with transit systems that are actually better than driving, where you see bankers in suits using the subway.

Getting rid of homeless/ppor people overnight wouldn't fix the perception issue immediately. It would take a while for word to get out that the buses weren't associated with being poor again.

Strangely, I think that making transit completely free removes some of the "poor" stigma. If two things cost money, then you compare the prices and benefits of both to decide what to pick. If one option is completely free, then that comparison isn't performed the same way because of weird mechanisms in our brains. Most middle class people will pay more to drink name brand Coca-Cola instead of an off-brand cola, but if you made the off-brand cola free, then a lot of middle class people would start drinking the off-brand stuff. It's not really rational, but middle class people love a bargain. And once the middle class people start to realize how much of a bargain they get from free transit, then more will start riding and the proportion of poor people will go down, and then even more middle class people will start using it.
Care to prove that point?
Nope, it is not straight-forward and still a confusing process.
Farmers are hackers. There is a lot of technology on farms. You have tractor's, irrigation systems, sensors, camera's, sometimes even drones.
> This would be a terrifying revelation on a personal and existential level.

Why is that? I believe the universe is fully deterministic (i.e., no such thing as "true" randomness), yet I also don't think that rules out free will. Free will and determinism aren't necessarily incompatible.
That's still a decade, though - far better than the three years for a Chromebook or Pixel
Because it's always pain in the ass to set it up and then renew?
Are you talking about the wars where for example maybe conservatively 100000 Iraqis have died while about 5000 coalition troops have? Is that how you see winning going down for american gun owners, too?
Consider a quantum computer running a classical inference process, specified as a reversible circuit. The inference process is estimating the probability of getting a 1 insead of a 0 from some trial, with trial results provided as a series of inputs into the computation. The output of the process is then written into some specific register. This is meant to be analogous to a human embedded in a quantum world, doing experiments and thinking in classical sort of way and writing down conclusions.

Now go compute what happens when, instead of feeding classical trial results into this computation, you feed in a series of qubits each in the state a|0> + b|1>. You will find that the output register ends up storing a state extremely close to the representation of the probability |b|^2, up to some precision limited by the number of samples made available to the inference process. This indicates that "almost all the branches" must be agreeing on this particular value as the probability. That's the sort of way in which quantum mechanics, minus the Born Rule, predicts that almost all agents embedded in a quantum world will conclude that it follows the Born rule.
Could you explain why DP is so much better?
Google PR at work downvoting critical comments and post out of HN front page.

Money can buy position like it can on google search.
The MAX was a "bridge too far" for the 737 type. They need a clean-sheet design with big engines and fuel-efficient wings to compete with the A320neo, and the 737 can't be adapted to do that (wings too low to the ground) and it has a bad reputation. They're better off developing the Future Small Airplane (FSA), and call it a "797."
Always behind InteliJ one, and nothing else for other Java IDEs.
> To begin with, 10 years is somewhat arbitrary. Why not 12? 15? 20?

I think the idea is great, filling your proposal with Xs ans Ys isn't. This is not code, it's a suggestion :)
I'm fine with people who think it's too hard...

What i cannot stand is people who can do it, but refuse to out of laziness. Or because they want their content to be insecure on purpose.

This applies mostly to big orgs, so indie devs can have some leeway if it's too hard to implement.
Small businesses would have been destroyed by all sorts of rules that have already been passed. Companies whose entire service was dumping asbestos in to lakes or companies who only managed to turn a profit by hiring child labour. Their owners had to choose between possible jail time or losing everything.

Every single thing done by a government, or really just any large player in the market place, is going to have small businesses that get flattened by it. That your entire company could be wiped out by changes in the marketplace, including laws, is one of the risks a person assumes when they decide to start a small business instead of working as an employee. They're earning their slice of the money pie in part by assuming that risk.
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I was surprised too. I wonder why this did not catch the attention?
Is there a limit to what one can do with these six characters? Like, now we're reading values from the string "false". We also could read from "true", and maybe undefined (how?). But can one do more? If one can generate "window", one should be able to call functions through window["functionName"]() and do general computing with this, I think?
Not only that, Google and JetBrains cleverly sell Android Java as Java when talking about Kotlin capabilities over Java.

If Android Java was actually modern Java, the sales pitch wouldn't be as strong.
Instructions are here: https://certbot.eff.org/

I don't know how it could possibly be any simpler.
I like it, but it seems very unreliable - I almost always have to disconnect and reconnect my phone to the wifi for it to work
> Automakers, for example, can now expect to see bigger profits from the loans they make on selling cars than from selling the actual cars.

I took a community college class in accounting taught by a guy who used to sell cars. He told me the money a dealership made was not from selling the cars, it was from selling the financing.

This was in the 1970's.

BTW, I recommend taking a basic accounting class. It will pay off for your whole life, even if you never run a business.
He doesn't tho, he compares an AR-15 to an AK-47 and says an AR-15 is designed to broken down in the jungle (that's the M-16, which was what was used in Vietnam, they conflated the two, trying to disingenuously frame AR-15's as a war weapon used by the military).

Rifles are superior for self defense at a distance. So in the "wild hog" scenario, best to pick them off from a tree, or before they get close. In a more realistic case, shooting someone coming at you from across your yard (especially if you have a large yard or live close to wilderness). But if wild hogs aren't your concern, but assailants coming across your yard that are armed:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/homeowner-shoots-kills-men-...

Any closer than that you're probably better off with a shot gun for home defense, unless...you're defense needs are different or you're concerned about multiple assailants, which case a pistol might be better.

Pistols are more apt for shooting and more easily handled in a close quarter environment, where accuracy isn't difficult to achieve and you need to move the gun quickly, so an assailant that is close to you. They're also easier to conceal and carry with you. That's when you'd want a Glock, with hollow points which would do far more that 5.56 ammo since the caliber on even a 9mm much less a 45 is significantly larger. The tip of a 5.56 bullet isn't much larger than a .22 so to say its more dangerous, unless you count velocity, but unless you're wearing body armor, a 9mm or .45 pistol would be worse. It's why police generally carry pistols, and honestly, if you're worried about the "active shooter" in a building, pistols are just as much and have been as much of a threat, to say nothing of what most gun homicides are caused by.
The threat model and economics of federated systems devolve to concentrating trust in the hands of a few, while missing out on the scale advantages of purely centralized solutions.

Federation results in the data of users being subject to the whims of the owner of the federated instance.

Administrators can see correspondence and derive social graphs trivially. They are also in a position to selectively censor inter-instance communication.

I am totally happy with picking someone I actually trust to have those powers over me. The thing I don't like is when a random manager I don't know from Adam has those powers over me.
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If it only was that simple :) since we can not solve the halting problem, pure breadth first search doesn't help. We need to find another algorithm that makes use of the tree's structure.

If bfsearch could be proven to be the best algorithm, this would reduce the conjecture to the halting problem.