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A search for "great pyramid from above" will return a ton of images where you can see this for yourself. It's definitely true, just not very well known.

Sample image: https://hiddenincatours.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/b3eab...
Modification of road signs is illegal everywhere, and for good reason.

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/cities/johnscreek/jo...
git merge first-party instead of git init or git merge 3rd-party

That's the strategy being used because 3rd parties have no chance in our system. The only thing you can do is merge into one of the 2, become the new repo owner and reshape it going forward.
Here's a quote from Rohrabacher after visiting Assange in 2017: “When speaking with Julian Assange, I told him that if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave him the DNC emails, I would then call on President Trump to pardon him"

Is it really that hard to believe?
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> If you want to make an arguments make an actual argument against their position, not one against the concept of identity politics because that's an inherently flawed argument.

It's not inherently flawed to a liberal of the 1960s - 2010s, who idealized universal principles, individual identities, colorblindness, and single standards of behavior to be applied to all, regardless of sex, race, etc.

Please, have the intellectual honesty not to erase that entire era. It's not necessary to do that in order to promote the contrary ideology of intersectionality.
Sort of just generally, to word this post more simply: whenever the point is made that encrypted email is cryptographically inferior to secure messengers, people respond with a litany of ergonomic reasons why secure messengers aren't viable: they don't have the right platform support, nobody wants to type on their phones, people want decentralized platforms, nobody wants to install new software, and on and on.

The problem with these arguments is that they have nothing to do with security. There's simply no case that can be made that encrypted email is as secure as a modern secure messenger. People tolerate shoddy encryption in email because ergonomics are more important to them than security.

The problem here is that there are real people who depend on the security of their messages who would be taking unreasonable risks in trying to get an encrypted email workflow going. Rather than telling these people to read a GPG tutorial or install Enigmail or whatever, we should be telling them either to use a secure messenger, or not to put themselves at risk at all.
Bernie tried to primary Obama...he's independent
You’re not factoring in the ability of supersonic planes to fly at higher altitudes lowering air resistance.

Also these planes could entice the rich to forgo flying on private jets. I’m sure 50 folks on a supersonic jet is still more efficient than 50 gulf streams.
IFP is really more to let the receiver knows where one stream of bits stop and the next stream of bits start. How they handle the incoming spray of data is up to them on a queue/implementation level.
I think the overall advice is "stop using email for stuff you expect to be E2E encrypted". There are still valid use cases for "regular" email, and I'm okay with most of it hosted on Gmail and searchable etc.
Few things in this world are optimal... But homeschooling seems very suboptimal for socialization purposes, just meeting your family all the time seems like an extremely bad idea. Or what did you have in mind?
There's not "one" PGP vuln: one of the things that makes PGP so pernicious is that it's a spec, a de facto implementation (GPG), an ecosystem used in different contexts (e.g. enterprise file transfer, but also e-mail) by completely different user archetypes. But yes, this post focuses on problems with email in general and why the problems are deeper than something solved with a "better PGP".
That would be considered voter suppression by lots of people. Also very expensive.
Are there any channels that Pipedrive can't support
Nevada Democrats’ Goal: Turn on iPads, Then Run Smooth Caucuses
Under ideal conditions the Taycan can charge to 80% in 22.5 minutes. That’s 160 miles, or 426 miles per hour. Third generation super chargers can charge at a rate of 1000 miles per hour, so your statement that the Taycan charges faster is false.

As far as range testing goes I’ve never heard of a Tesla not being able to meet its epa estimated range, and I find it hard to believe that Porsche would be advertising a low range if they’re capable of achieving something better.
Most of my family was so nihilistic after the press called Romney a nazi for transporting their dogs on top of their vehicles that they were happy to do whatever made the press mad.

At first the press only talked about Trump to ignore real republican thought, then it became a reinforcing cycle as people bought into the despair.
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Sure Django and Flask use secure session cookies but that doesn't automatically make them all secure or signed/encrypted. Most cookies are plain text and there's no reason they need to be secure (they just contain user metadata not auth information)
I would love to see a protocol added, so that when alice composes an email a request is sent to bob@bar.com with a special header to retrieve bob's private key. This in turn would be signed with a cert from bar.com, which in turn is signed by one of the same trusted CA's used for HTTPS traffic.

Is there anything like this currently implemented / standardized?
Murdochs did not want to sell. There was a semi-hostile takeover, involving a Saudi prince, that allowed investors to sell off the profitable franchises to Disney. It's a fairly interesting story if you find the time to read it.
In the Podesta emails john ivory laments the fact that the dnc thought the real treat was citizens untied, but turned out the free press from trumps celebrity dwarfed that. This time dnc is banking that Bloomberg billions can outspend even that...
Interestingly, Lambda School has just announced a new "ISA Financing Blueprint" [0] and "Better Data Transparency" [1] which address some of the concerns from the article.

[0] https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/announcing-our-new-isa-...

[1] https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/building-better-data-tr...
> if the market value of a healthy forest is greater than that of palm oil, there will be incentives to destroy the forest

No the idea is the opposite - if the market value of healthy forest is greater than that of palm oil the idea is people will be incentivised to not destroy the forest because it's worth more than the palm oil.
ATM is mostly dead. The only places it exists now is legacy deployments. Everyone has been deploying MPLS/IP instead of ATM for the past 15-20 years.
> The Great Pyramid is a scale model of Earth…

Is this a joke that’s whooshing over my head?
This comment carries the implication that because this practice is American, it's OK if we continue doing it. I heartily disagree and thinks it's abominable to consider something as consequential as this election in such stark, cynical terms.
I’d imagine an oil rig is the least likely place on the planet to need complicated wind power. They flare off natural gas constantly, sticking a turbine (or indeed just a thermoelectric stack ) in there would be trivial.
> encrypted email is LARP security

LARP here is a link to Google and from the results I can only assume that it expands to "Live Action Role-Playing (Game)". I don't get how that's related. What is "Live Action Role-Playing Security"?

> most people who encrypt emails are LARPing

They're role-playing what?
Direct quote from Mueller Report: "GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks's private communication system.”
Rohrabacher visited Assange in August 2017, when this offer supposedly took place. [1]

Assange wasn't placed in solitary confinement, a form of torture, until 2019, after he was arrested by UK authorities.

Of course in 2017, he was being arbitrarily detained, [2] which while not torture, was a violation of his human rights, and had been ongoing since the Obama administration with no end in sight.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205448/https://rohrabach...

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
I mean, I'm glad you're taking this opportunity to do some soul searching, but the bottom line is that someone owes you money that they're not paying you.

If you were robbed in the street, would you be laying in bed worrying about whether you had a robbable face? Would you be trying to think how you could have been friendlier to your muggers?
The problem si that number of "standard" fonts are thining. It sucks having different widths of fonts on different platforms. You will have to load some webfont if you want consistency.
I’ve been working.

The general tone of this thread is aggressive and dismissive. Clearly, Ikaria is already bring us together in brotherhood and friendship.
Let's see who is actually sworn first in before we start declaring the Presidency is for sale.
You’re probably thinking of premium domains. Most ngTLDs charge more for high-value names to mitigate squatting—and to take a larger piece of the pie.
That's not entirely true. There have been a number of innovations in cooperative structures. For instance, many cooperatives need capital to get off the ground, or they're a capital intensive industry like insurance, and they'll introduce capital investors but they don't get voting rights.

It's not all that different than taking a business loan which requires repayment of the capital - but the bank doesn't have voting rights and doesn't attend board meetings.

I'm curious to hear more about Goodcover's structure, too, like what rights do members have beyond dividend returns. I've, personally, always thought that my needs from insurance companies are significantly lower than many peoples. The thread below about 4+ years of expenses paid absolutely blows my mind. I would _never_ expect my insurance company to do that and I'd hope to get proportionally lower premiums.

My hope for the proliferation of cooperatives is to provide more diverse offerings in every industry and combat the consolidation that we're seeing everywhere. That said, I understand that the insurance industry is under a tremendous amount of regulation (for good reason) and I might make bad choices as a consumer.

One of the other perks of cooperatives is their commitment to benefiting members which could include much better education and support around policy options.
what exactly did you expect on day 1: a complete redesign of hundreds of thousands of pages of laws?

over time UK law will diverge from EU law (in the same way that US law diverged from UK law after 1776)
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I assume this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

Dunno why this afternoon, and that story, rather than the 4 or more other links that cycled through since yesterday.
Thanks for your question, it's an important one, and deserves more than a handwave answer. When we started Goodcover, our goal was to make it so we were not in conflict with our Members - and the core of this is a cooperative model.

The original business model we were looking for is known as a "Reciprocal Exchange" (RE) - a type of co-op or mutual (like you mention) where the members own the claims capital, but the business is managed by a company called an "Attorney in Fact", which is usually a for profit (Farmers is an example). That would be us - we’d make money providing an amazing service to as many people as possible.

Unfortunately, we found out from the CA regulators very early on that starting a Reciprocal Exchange today was basically a non-starter. The capital requirements I mention in "Quirk 2" mean we can't just raise money from somewhere and kick-start the RE. We would need to get future-subscribers to put up the cash, and the amount we were talking there was just not possible. Farmers started in 1928 with a loan for their backend capital, something that is illegal today. So we were stuck - how do we start a new co-op insurer given this requirement?

The above story is the process of us figuring that out. Goodcover is an MGA that manages insurance on behalf of its Members, like an Attorney in Fact does for an RE. However since we can't have an actual RE until we have sufficient number of Members, we rent the capital backstop from conventional carriers. They pay us a fee and return the "underwriting profit" to us (that part is even more complicated and can talk later if you want), which we then return to Members, like Farmers should, but doesn’t anymore.

So, long answer - but yes, we are a for profit company. We operate the insurance like a cooperative, but like many other coops we do that for a for-profit fee. But, given the regulatory environment today we don't really look like your 1920s co-op!
I agree with you the first half of your comment - the move from spinning rust to an SSD is absolutely huge; you have Windows starting in a few seconds, which is a far cry from an HDD.

But the 2nd half of your comment, I disagree with. To me, Windows 10 has the perception of being faster than Windows 7 was with the same hardware - most of my machines have been on Windows 10 for ages, but I actually finally upgraded one of my work laptops just today, and this still holds true for me.

With great support for multiple monitors, great high-DPI support, a better command line, Hyper-V, WSL and more, I actually love Windows 10 - it's a fantastic OS.
Exactly. The only thing preventing Trump from being more successful in implementing his ideas is that he's so brash and offensive to people's tastes in character. If Bloomberg can put on a nice mask, he can (and if the past is anything to go by, will) enact much worse than Trump did, and I wouldn't be surprised if mainstream media outlets announce his policies with fanfare.
The security flaws with email are completely fundamental. It is not possible to "fix" email without disrupting the existing users. If you're forced to disrupt existing users, then you might as well switch to a more securely designed protocol.
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It's used to pay respect to a recently deceased tech person. In this case, Larry Tesler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

In the past, we've had it for Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz, among others.
I could imagine Signal Desktop adding a mail-like UI that still interops with Signal.
What to do when those talks are too complex for my understanding?
This is indeed a good overview.

It would have been a great overview had it started with briefing readers about why (or when) image size should bother us at all.
They're pretending to have security.
” It's aligned to true north within 3/60 of one degree (making it, I believe, the most accurately aligned structure on the planet)”

Is that referring to true North today or in 2560 B.C?
Trump 'offered Assange pardon for Russia denial'
Role-playing someone who needs to and does send encrypted messages, was how I read it. As in, make-believe security for fun, to feel more like a spy or something.
They obviously can change them whenever they want. So no.
> It's 'fixed' in the same sense as the compiler knowing what are the subclasses of a base class.

... but the compiler does not know ? new classes are loaded at run-time all the time with e.g. plug-in systems, etc.
I've heard a number of complaints that google itself did not adhere to the principles they are promoting, especially in material design.
Because you don't know what you're talking about and are engaging in "what if"-isms? There is no business case to solve with jumbos frames over the Internet. I've been in this business for 20 years. Seen this argument a dozen times. It never changes.
I'm still not convinced. Are you sure the photos are valid?
Is curiosmos a trustworthy site?

William Matthews Flinders Petrie is mentioned as having written La Description de l’Egypte in the 1700's - this is inaccurate, the man was born in 1853: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Petrie. On a quick search I can't find mention of La Description de l’Egypte, either in French or English.

They're also quoting a text by I.E.S. Edwards at the end. He seems to be a real person, but they quote a 1975 edition of his book, which I can't find on google books (https://books.google.nl/books?q=editions:ISBN0140136347&id=d...).

The mention of British Air Force pilot, P. Groves pops up in multiple places, but none looks particularly trustworthy to me.
We exclusively use Dapper for all database access. I have zero problems with a few string constants in my services that contain the requisite SQL statements for managing my business entities against the database. It's really nice having such a consolidated context where your SQLite implementations are just single partial classes tacked onto the services you are providing persistence for.

That is one other point - SQLite has enabled us to do some really deep consolidation of our codebase. We generally use one SQLite database per business entity or abstraction. Users.db, Logs.db, Sessions.db, Settings.db, etc. It allows for a truly 100% independent vertical stack (aside from coupling against business models) for purposes of developing various pieces of business functionality. This is, in my view, is the perfect ideal of 'microservice' architecture. One big folder called services, one class per 'microservice', one SQLite database per class, one collection of mappers per class, etc. I honestly feel like we have settled on the perfect grain for our codebase structure (at least in C#/.NET Core land). The benefit in our world is that instead of HTTP-based RPC, we are doing direct method invocation throughout. We also use Blazor in order to extend this concept as close to the screen as technically feasible.
Here's the other thread, for anyone who's missing context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22366474
> I'm pretty sure that even a 50% mitigation is still valuable

It’s about as useful as wearing a condom 50% of the time.
The Seth Rich thing has been widely debunked multiple times (as I said, and provided evidence for in another comment). The Fox article pushing this has been debunked. Fox is being sued by the family. There is no evidence for this theory.
If anyone else wants to do this, a very handy tool exists that makes the process quite easy: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts
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No, at worst you might just might end up living on the street, without healthcare. Or just humiliated and broken down daily.

Sure I do. What's the downside, someone might tell you not to plug in your own computer?

You think it's worth it to have people spending the majority of their life in an environment of tyranny, abuse of power, humilation and degradation, no democracy in the environment you spend most of your waking hours in -- because some unions might tell you not to plug in your own computer?
Nope. Timelinked video: https://youtu.be/rhGQU3m9E34?t=1103
In my experience, the electronics _around_ the leds tend to fail rather fast.

Few years back - around 7 - we expanded our house slightly (A room, a small living room and a small bath) so I put led bulbs in there, plus I replaced some of the bulbs in the rest of the house.

As I bought several of these (5+) when I placed them I wrote on them with a permanent marker the date of installation. Bear in mind these were not extra cheap, more like mid priced ones.

6 months from installation I had to start replacing them, and at the 18 months mark I had replaced most of them.

Bear in mind this coincided with a big legislation in my country that made "normal" light bulbs illegal (Because ecology, global warming and shit).

I doubt they took into account how much trash these cheap bulbs generate.

Also, whatever money you save from less energy consumption is probably a lot less than the money that it costs replacing them this often.
In the US, incomes between $9,701 to $39,475 are taxed at 12%, so the tax on 15,080 is actually $1,810 or 40% less than your estimate... at 63,179 the tax rate is 22% which is $13,899 - only a little higher than your estimate.

At $200K, the tax rate is 32%, so the tax is really $64K, 160% of your estimate.
(all for single filers or married filing separately; married filing jointly has wider bands, and the rates are less overall at the given combined income levels)
Hipp talks about that in the interview a little bit:

> SQLite really started life as a Tcl extension, Tcl being the programming language, the Tcl/Tk. The project I was working was working on was written in Tcl/Tk and so SQLite began as a Tcl extension and as a scripting language, like Perl or Python, where you can put any type of value you want in a variable. So a variable might hold a string, a number, a byte array or whatever. So I made SQLite the same way, where just because you’ve declared a column of a table to be text doesn’t mean you can’t put integer in there, or just because you declared a column in the table to be a short int, why not put a 2-megabyte blob there? So what? It’ll do that.

> Or if you have a column that’s declared integer and you try to put text in it, it looks like an integer and it can be converted without loss. It will convert and store it as an integer. But if you try and put a blob into a short int or something, there’s no way to convert that, so it just stores the original and it gives flexibility there. And this is useful in a lot of cases, because sometimes you just have a miscellaneous column in a table that you might need to store lots of different things in. And in traditional database systems you actually have to have multiple columns, one for each possible data type, whereas in SQLite you put it all in one column. So it works well.

> And for that matter, with SQLite you don’t have to give the column a type at all. You can just say, CreateTable T1 (a,b,c) and then you’ve got a table with three columns named a, b and c and you put whatever you want there.

> Well, it flows directly out of the scripting language traditions. You don’t declare types for variables in Tcl; you didn’t used to do it in Python, I guess you can do it some, now. You don’t do it in JavaScript… You just say it’s a var.
I agree those are good questions for determining if a company should be treated like a single entity but any definition for those will be endlessly argued in court where, unless funding is increased for enforcement actions, the IRS is at a disadvantage for resources. Apple Ireland for example was able to skirt something around 13 billion dollars in already low Irish taxes, that's a hell of a war chest for defending against a lawsuit. In 2019 the IRS's whole budget was something around $11 billion dollars.
True north doesn’t change - magnetic north does.
This article has not talked about the "The Problem with Palm Oil"

So why does it get upvoted?

To virtual signal? Because it's easier to up-vote than think? The religion of simple minded environmentalism has put a fatwa on Palm Oil? Because if we state the problem we might have to solve it, so better not to talk about it?

If there is a problem explain it.

I'll sum it up in part for you - "Poor people need money so their kids don't die, rich people like forests and random stuff more than dirty funny colored kids so pretend boycotting Palm Oil makes a difference because they still get stuff and the worse that happens is some random kids die"