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Which is why it's important to craft policy of strong checks and balances, regardless of which party has a majority. Today you're the Rebellion, tomorrow you're the Empire. Design systems resilient to subversion or tyranny by anyone.
what would empowering women entail? Helping them to make stuff, answer there questions? So does that mean men are not allowed to get questions answered? Or is it about the community/morality guidelines? Because if its not an exclusively female forum, I don't understand it's purpose.
How about you just stop with the pointless wars and chemical weapon development instead? Wouldn't that be a whole lot cheaper and safer, and give rise to way fewer ethical dilemmas?

Essentially all wars in recent history have led to widespread devastation, no benefit to any people, insane numbers of deaths, and a LOT of profit for corporations for whom war is a business.

See: War is a Racket (1933): https://www.wanttoknow.info/warisaracket
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255
Sort of how people with no education in philosophy and art decry them?
Sure, but Donald John Trump is not the customer. The customer is the United States.
Big cars for safety is a tragedy of the commons type affair with one caveat.

There will always be large trucks and some large cars so having a larger car is slightly safer (I assume).

But as the portion of large cars increases, small cars presumably become more unsafe and those drivers will start buying large cars. Then when nearly everyone has large cars, everyone is left back at square one or worse.

Their car doesn’t let them see over the average car anymore and neither do they give them a (somewhat selfish) size advantage in a collision.

True, the larger car probably has bigger crumple zones, but since cars are now larger and heavier it requires more crumple zone to stop one. And parking, fuel efficiency, road congestion and car prices are all worse.
I’m not sure I’m fully grokking what’s nuts about this?

The speakers all talk to each other, so they’re saying you either update all or none. And they’re not going to be providing updates for some of their kit that they’ve decided is legacy.

For people whose stance is that they bought the device and it should continue working as-is, that’s true: all the devices they bought will continue as-is, without getting new changes/features. As Sonos notes, over time that’s going to mean that integrations with 3rd party services will break (“this will affect your listening experience”), which seems pretty much a given since those 3rd party services are unlikely to keep their APIs the same forever.

For people whose stance is they bought a continuously-updating system, part of that is continuously-updating-the-hardware-bits.

But it’s not rational to expect both ongoing updates and for old kit to work forever, when the devices all interact like a speaker system does. Sonos’s announcement is literally saying “we aren’t going to update your new kit if you hold the old kit back, _because doing so would be detrimental to you by breaking the interoperability of your new and old kit_”
Did you even read the last sentence of the parent comment?
I also thought parent was comparing the two at first, but after his/her clarification I think parent was just reporting the latest (at the time) numbers for us.
Totally agree, and batteries are typically made in china where electricity mostly come from coal power plants. Just as well hydrogen may not be good for the climate either.

This brain-washed journalist makes it clear how green tech often is green washing, and a very effective one.
Show HN: I made a productivity software that tracks Focus
That's basically what it is.

Advantages:

- the list is community generated
- you can disable it temporarily
- there's a nice UI
- you can protect all devices on your network

Disadvantages:

- gotta run it somehow (appliance, container, etc). Another thing to manage.

Overall it's been a net positive. The amount of filtering that happens on my home network is staggering.
Please explain why being a "friend of Epstein" makes him automatically wrong about this specific issue.
I used to race triathlons, and I've dived into my fair share of chilly lakes and rivers at 6 AM. I guess this is a different thing than a leisurely swim, but the main thing I remember is the pain in the temples and around the crown of the scalp from submerging the head in ice-cold water. Something like a brain-freeze from eating ice cream too fast.
> Well, as I've said multiple times, we're talking about Utilitarianism, so the goal is always utility maximization.

Am I talking to a wall? Utility isn't some general concept that automatically applies to everything. Utility of what? For me, utility maximization in that situation would be saving the lives of all the people in the WTC towers. For Bush it might be "how can I justify a war in two countries that have nothing to do with 9/11?". For you, it might be to waste my time with general questions that have nothing to do with anything.

There needs to be a goal to which utility must be maximized if you're thinking in utilitarian terms. Utility maximization isn't the goal, it's the method by which a goal is achieved or the metric by which success in achieving a goal is measured, whether's maximum happiness, maximum number of people killed, maximum number of people pissed off, or whatever else. It is not the goal in and of itself. Everybody has values and goals and preferences - utilitarianism is the application of utility maximization to these values, goals and preferences.
What about abortion? It has been the #1 cause of death the past century, killing hundreds of millions of people, and now a contributor to population collapse. I think we have more to fear from being doomed by our own vices than nuclear weapons, climate change, etc.
I believe one of the major US telcos used to do this too. Just another reason to wrap everything in SSL. Super easy (and free) with lets encrypt.
This feels very stupid from MS, the bad publicity must surely outweigh the tiny increase to a product that's not substantive and underperforms anyway.

Presumably a product decision by the same people who though inserting 200% additional whitespace into Outlook would go down well.
There are layers upon layers in that reward system, although everything should be explainable. So how did the reward system come to a point that it does not want to believe it will die at some point and for that reason it had to create several imaginary stories such as religion etc? I wonder if it maybe has to do with group dynamics? In order for some conscious systems to be controlled by more powerful entities they would have had to been fed delusions in order for their reward systems to be happy and not feel cheated upon. Eg reward system wants to maximize survivability and when it is controlled by other systems in power it has to be led lies that after death it will be better so all in all the reward system gets so skewed that eventually it is likely to believe any other type of delusions as well. Such as for example that itself is not a reward system and if it was it would hate itself.

So in the end are all delusions defense mechanisms for that reward system to accept that things are unfair, this reward system might not be able to achieve the desired goals so it has to adapt itself? But why can't this reward system just hibernate without delusions?

Edit: actually I think coming to hate itself as a reward system is part of societal pressures. Society pressures each reward system to do common good for that society and creates morals. These morals have been created in a manner that one has to be something more than a selfish creature or otherwise gets shunned so reward system will create all those thoughts in order to avoid having to face selfish desires vs societal pressures head on?
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but how does NextDNS compare to 1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare?

I've been using 1.1.1.1 for some time. For me it has worked fairly well in the USA where my connection speed is ~200mbps. While I was in India, 1.1.1.1 caused substantial slowdowns, in some cases made a few websites unusable. Typically I had it disabled. I'm unsure why this was happening because the website says it makes web browsing faster--I do not have the technical chops to understand this, so would anybody be kind enough to explain in a layman's language? Would NextDNS and 1.1.1.1 differ in terms of speed?

https://1.1.1.1
Don't parents read to their children anymore? Is this actually a "lost art"? Our son is 12 and he still wants to be read aloud. Is this an aberration?
I also prefer working for startups or smaller companies nowadays: working closely with the management team helps to understand strategic decisions first-hand.

I also found people at smaller companies to be more motivated , and eager to bring their own ideas to the table. Often, because they feel valued by the founders and see the direct impact they make on their customers.
You get the gist of it if you drop into streetview and move around. [0]

Having taken that roundabout in just about every way possible (car, scooter and yes - velib), I can only recommend to anyone on it to have fluid yet determined movement on the roundabout.. even if you don't quite know where you're going or if the next exit is the one you really want to take. A fun exercise.

[0] https://imgur.com/gYPWfv2
I can't comment on confidence in the system working well reducing turnout but I suspect that high confidence in the system being so broken voting won't ever fix it reduces turnout.
Thank you so much for this comment as I had the same question.
Tinder will give you a verified blue check mark if you pass its catfishing test
I’ve seen this episode of Star Trek.
I don't think there is much of a correlation between Trump tweets, Trump thoughts, and Trump actions. Of course I could be proven wrong at any moment, but I would not be around any longer to observe it... In any case, judging how much panic should be had every time the President mouths off is something that nuclear physicists are not abnormally qualified for, at least not above anyone else. There really doesn't need to be a special panel of atomic scientists dedicated to reading Trump tweets.
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Is all defense-related work complicit in murder?

Do we not need a military?

Nothing is perfect, but we are trapped on a planet with a bunch of violent, highly intelligent apes. Certainly the military does things I disagree with, and things could always be improved, but generally what is the alternative?
In a regular two-lane roundabout, this difference is arbitrary. Your second exit is the third exit for cars entering before you and the first exit for cars entering later. If someone is entering from your exit, you may still be in trouble when you try to move to the outside lane after the second exit. Hence the turbo roundabout.
Yes, there is harm that will happen, but harm will happen whether it's Microsoft or Amazon. Amazon is throwing their weight around because they didn't get the multi-billion contract. It has nothing to do with Amazon or Microsoft being better stewards of ... anything. They're both massive companies with horrid business practices, led by boards who don't give a shit about war or human suffering or the poor or anything outside growth and economic goals and shutting out their competitors.
Pfsense as well, with Pfblocker (https://www.linuxincluded.com/block-ads-malvertising-on-pfse...)
The bigger "fuck you" to ICANN and the best option in general which would prevent similar issues from occurring in the future would be to move away from DNS and move to .onion addresses or something like namecoin instead.

We don't even need the majority of the world to start using them, we just need browsers to add support.
Python's folium to create choropleth maps
I got a reply from the maker that it does. So that's that.
What I understood from it: We are still dealing with heavy inequalities today. To change this we need anybody wiling to change this.
> King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology.

If they mean that there is a public URL you go to, and then on the site only have to enter you birhdate and name to log in, and then you can vote--that can't be right. There's gotta be more than that.

My guess is that what has been lost in the stories is how you get the URL. I'm guessing that they either email you the URL or they send physical mail which includes a QR code with the URL, and the URL contains some sort of unique per voter identifier (hopefully randomly generated anew for each election). When you go to vote the site knows who you are supposed to be from that identifier in the URL, and the name/birthdate is just for a consistency check.
> Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract – or JEDI

I've been living under a rock, apparently.

Is there some requirement that when a right-wing celebrity gets elected President, they have to use Star Wars codenames?
Maybe these countries are just dealing with prisoner's dilemma.
Gettin some real Rogue Trooper vibes
> If you want a new domain and to keep your backlinks you can 302 the old domain to the new.

Which will only work as long as you keep paying for the old domain.
Losing his job is one thing, but maybe it's time he got a job doing something else.
Imo better use notepad +google/Microsoft drive
Is all war considered murder?
Adding to the main reasons already mentioned by others; it's also about culture. Most companies have the perception that people who live close-by are more likely to fit into the existing culture. With that in mind, it does make sense to prioritize people in the same country/continent even for remote work.

Also, the demand-suply for remote working engineers is way different, so it can be an alternative to relocting from abroad.
Having the controls and seating position reversed also helps a lot in driving on the other side of the road compared to what you're 'used to' in my experience.

In particular I've found that driving on the continent in a UK car is a lot harder than driving on the continent in a local hire car, beyond the lower visibility you get when merging etc.
Doesn’t Facebook strip EXIF data?
As a citizen I think this is a REALLY bad idea because of the security implications surrounding it.
It's a real shame that there isn't legitimate competition in this space. And before you mention it, personal capital is not a replacement as it solves a different problem.

One place to aggregate all financial accounts and give a clear picture, including bills, investments, categories, trends, credit score checks, and budgeting. Everything is easily synced. I don't need a desktop app, just a web app and an iOS app. There are manual solutions but I'm looking to have all this automated.

Basically Mint has nailed it if it wasn't completely abandoned and didn't as many account connectivity struggles. (it handles most of them well). They also have turbo tax, why isn't this integrated? You have your accounts connected already. Automatically pull the required forms from that financial provider into turbo tax. This doesn't seem impossible.

I don't mind the "offers" ad page, but when they started integrating ads in between transactions that was rather offensive. It's been a steep decline. I'm really hoping someone comes up with a strong alternative (VCs get on this). I'd be willing to pay annually too.
> Stop remembering numbers meant for a machine, and use DNS

This is not a good solution. A lot of times people use IPs because DNS is not available or is more complex to set up. Say you are:

- Setting up and configuring a network.
- Setting up the firewall.
- Inspecting traffic and seeing where it goes.
- Verifying that the DNS resolutions are being done correctly.

Most people already use DNS, because it's more comfortable. But anything that requires working with the network is now going to be much more complicated. For example, I can remember some network prefixes and know whether they are in building A or building B. IPv6 makes that much, much more difficult.

Also, the numbers are not even that well meant for a machine. Text representation of IPv4 is easy to detect. IPv6 representation? Good luck with that.

All of that because of the decision of using 128 bits instead of 64. 2^64 address would be more than enough, representable without issues in usual data types (uint64_t is a standard C type, uint128_t is not) and the problem of ipv6 representation would be far less relevant.
Huh, I just updated to that version and I no longer have the flag either, guess they got rid of it... One more reason to primarily use firefox.

Looks like there are extensions in the chrome store that essentially do the same thing though.
There are a lot of things that could be done. Electoral college voting is required by the Constitution, but 'winner take all' apportionment by the states is not; that is just imposed by the states to protect partisan results. Can imagine what presidential campaigns would be like if candidates had to actually campaign for every electoral vote in every state? The number of seats in Congress has been fixed for 100 years, so we no longer have anything close to equal representation by district.
No Longer America's Top Models: Goodyear Tires of Its Tiny Factories (2010)
The Crazy Ones
Nope. There's this great concept called the "rule of law". Also "free speech" which allows you to criticize the government without retaliation. These are absolute bedrock principles of liberal democracy.

I'll admit it's the reality in countries with less developed governments, sure. But it's a reality we ought to fight against for the benefit of all, not to blindly and meekly accept. And historically, court cases are one of the primary tools in waging this fight.
It wasn't mentioned because design is more than just skinning the UI after the fact. Design is about being mindful of things like presentation, layout and organization. A skin can help with presentation but it will never make up for poor layout or organization.

Often times developers and designers don't take the time to even understand Bootstrap or how to use it's layout system, instead choosing to hack it by adding CSS classes until it "looks right". These design choices often fall apart with the slightest change to display size or upstream changes in the HTML.
The original post is a good first source.
The article explains why the Colchester one is particularly cursed: it's built on a native burial ground!
kick's comment above is absolutely delusional. It's like something a teenager would write.

Im starting to wonder if hackernews is turning into Reddit.
I got tired of reading Percy Jackson with my kids and decided to read A Tale of Two Cities with them aloud. It's been a really interesting experience, my wife listens in and we discuss what's going on, the historical context, etc.

For me, I read at a different pace aloud which gives me moments to reflect more on what I have just read, producing a very different reading experience.
> even a Physics student will take some liberal arts classes as electives

I think you're missing my point. In the North American definition of the term, a physics degree is also a liberal arts degree. Physics is a natural science. North American liberal arts colleges offer physics degrees.

Liberal arts education is in contrast to applied or technical educations. For example, aerospace engineering, which is physics applied to a specialized domain.

Your definition of liberal arts seems to be "anything that doesn't involve too much math." Which is a weird kind of snobbery. (I'm speaking as an engineer btw).
I looked at the article byline and found the propublica link
https://www.propublica.org/article/9-11-investigation-saudi-...
I suppose I can imagine the scenario, but have any VC-backed companies actually grown big in that way? Doordash is the closest example I can think of, but unless you're considering restaurants rather than end users as their customers, it seems pretty uncontroversial to say that it's been good for customers. Alternatives exist, and both Doordash and the alternatives have significantly expanded the range of foods most people can get delivered.
Possible explanation: one has appeared here by chance a few days ago, and then people read stuff about procratination on their own and some are submitting some of this stuff here.
Boston Dynamics appoints its first-ever new CEO
Facebook Doxing Users
Spooky, that whole article relates so deeply even the examples feel as if they're lifted from my brain.
Yes but it's scarce. As he sells the price goes up so he controls the outcome. His nest egg permanently exists because it's limited, the supply will always drop. Selling the last dregs of helium for military contracts or private industry will eclipse any reasonable monetary requirements. He can hang on to the smallest amount for a long time.

If helium doesn't sell for that much at the last point then it wasn't worth that much anyway and he couldn't build a nest egg off a normal sale price.

I don't get it.
There's enough evidence for Amazon to take legal action. Then the courts decide if it's good enough.
> you'd never guess this stuff is going to be used to and to enable murder.

This is only true, if you take it as axiomatic that armed forces have one job, which is killing and that all killing in armed conflict is simple murder. That's not a position I take.
The doomsday clock isn't for every source of death or life-preventer, it's specifically for doomsday events like nuclear war. Otherwise various bacteria would dominate everything else.
And I remind readers that Russia warned us about the Boston Bombers and we ignored them. One success does not equal success at all things.
This doesn't even need hacking. You just go on facebook and find someones name and birthday and vote as them.
Will they begin using the seconds hand?
Pretty much every news site does, otherwise it won't get ranked by Google News. Example:

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=h...
Yes, but the point being that 7% is an annualized number; if the hundreds of percent is also referring to annualized returns, then it makes sense.
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Any stats / sources on that,and how they may have changed over centuries? As well as other causes and overall trend on infant mortality.

I've heard many arguments around the abortion issue but "#1 killer" is new to me and I'd be curious to understand it better and in context. Thanks!
Yup. I'm gonna print this off and show it to my therapist.
Actually, only one of these companies has had its CEO personally attacked by the president.
Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking system
Or, archive link..

http://archive.is/effA9
I regularly do cold water swims in spring and fall months, and wholeheartedly agree with the amazing feeling after a good 10-20 minute dip.

I find the first few minutes of the swim are the hardest, as your body is adjusting to the cold, surface blood vessels are constricting, etc. The next 5-15 minutes are fantastic! I don't usually push it much beyond that.

But any discussion of the benefits of cold water swimming also needs to highlight the risk. If you're thinking of trying it out, make sure you're acutely aware of the temperatures you're dealing with, how long you're planning on being in the water, and that you understand the body's reflexes to cold water submersion. Here's a good resource covering these points: http://seagrant.umn.edu/coastal_communities/hypothermia
The technical jargon for what the article is describing is Duverger's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Use open office then??