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A concern for the lives or welfare of sex workers may be among the points used to sell the Nordic model but based on the Norwegian experience they don’t actually care about them.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/05/amnesty-inter...

> “If a customer is bad you need to manage it yourself to the end. You only call the police if you think you are going to die. If you call the police, you lose everything.”

> --Sex worker in Norway

> Amnesty International heard how some sex workers who have reported violence to the police in Norway have been evicted from their homes or deported as a result of engaging with the police.

> Under Norway’s laws, sex workers are at risk of forced evictions as their landlords can be prosecuted for renting property to them if they sell sex there.

> A representative of a Norwegian sex workers’ rights organization explained: “If landlords don’t evict, the police will launch a criminal case against them...The police are encouraging landlords to take the law into their own hands and enforce it themselves.”

> People who do sex work are also unable to work together for safety, or hire third party support like security, as this would likely qualify as ‘promotion of prostitution’ under the law.
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These interventions aren't harm-free, though, even putting aside the obvious effect on children's education. Nurses, doctors and other key workers have children and shutting down all the schools is going to be very disruptive to them. A surprising number of countries rely on schools to make sure some children are actually fed. There's also the problem of policing what those children do when they're out of school. And on a darker note, schools are a very important early warning system for domestic violence and abuse against kids, and there are some frankly very worrying claims that murders of kids have spiked dramatically in at least some parts of the US. It's likely that there are children who are dead now that wouldn't be if countries hadn't taken the "prudent option" of imposing a probably-ineffective intervention, quite possibly a substantial number.
I just had another idea. What if I can check the density of new submissions and tell you if now is a "hot" time to post?

Like if it is a good time/day of a week + not many people have posted recently.
> we are very far away

For different definitions of "very far away". We're only talking about 15 years since we started getting proper video recording in phones, and only about 4 since the big players started focusing on software enhancements.
Thanks for commenting. Do you have any code somewhere that demonstrates type-safe messages?
How on earth do they know for sure someone has never been exposed to a germ? Couldn’t it just be the antibodies were from very limited exposure?
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Pow is pretty great: https://powauth.com/
It's not OO per say, but it is an imperative concept, OO is almost always imperative.
> But if it were to run on every platform and processor the binary would have to be written to some VM

Not necessarily. You could have different binaries for different architectures. All you need is a consistent system interface with a well-specified ABI, and the client would just have to request the binary for their architecture.

> That’s webassembly, which is coming up.

Web assembly still has the limitations of running inside the browser. It's still single-threaded, and also the file size is pretty large compared to a binary.

> Also, there would have to be some GUI framework that works well across all devices, phone to desktop.

If you had a consistent system interface, you'd only have to do it once.

> For example you might standardize on a current graphics API

I mean Vulkan is basically this. And graphics API's are converging not diverging: modern graphics API's are all structured in a very similar way, since they're all just wrappers around the low level functionality of the GPU at this point.

I'm not saying it would be easy, but the reasons we don't have it have more to do with the fact that it would be difficult to get buy-in from OS vendors than it has to do with the technical problems involved. From a technical perspective, we could easily do way better than modern web.
>More often you are glueing together tools or writing a bunch of boring business logic for some specific application at best. At worst you are maintaining an old monolith trying to figure out someones logic from 15 years ago.

I did that. But I also started many new software projects. And CS education helped.

If you don't want to get stuck in maintaining old crap, you don't have to. You can change jobs. You can change type of projects you work on. I did.

I did game programming for lots of years and grew bored and tired of it and now I am doing web apps which I enjoy doing for the time being.
> Let's hope that they have it be designed by actually experienced road designers, and/or people who commute by bike

Indeed.

It's a similar experience in the UK where a lot of the bike paths seemed designed to meet council goals rather than be usable.

Near me we have several stretches of dedicated bike paths, sadly unconnected between them and one leads into a fence (I wish I were making it up, though to be charitable maybe the project run out of money before they could complete it)

No doubt the council congratulated themselves on building ~ 1.5 miles of bike paths that year.
I have an Airbnb booking for December 2020. Would it be best to cancel now when there is still a chance of a refund?
But without requiring all of the ActiveSupport patches to the base language!
They have lawyers, but everyone has lawyers over a certain size and the NHS is huge.

As for billing, who would they bill - I've never had a bill from the NHS or even heard of someone getting a bill from the NHS? In some parts of the UK you have to pay a small amount for prescription medicines but that doesn't go to the NHS etc.

It literally is "free at the point of delivery".

Edit: The NHS directly employs about 1.4 million people https://fullfact.org/health/how-many-nhs-employees-are-there... - and that's not including people who work in GP practices or dentists or opticians who do NHS work but aren't employed by the NHS.
Manhattan has always been a frathouse.
Completely agree - but for such a well funded company, surely they could have continued to try and sell unicorn tears on the front end, but spent some real time and effort to nail something on the backend.

This "pivot" seems like a play they should have been running in parallel regardless, considering they've had actual hardware on the go for a few years so far.
Don't think of a codec as just a magic black box that takes in frames and spits out compressed frames.

A codec is more like a toolbox or instruction set. It gives you a bunch of options you can use in order to compress a frame.

Unless AV1 removed some of the tools from the earlier codecs it drew from (e.g. VP9), it's entirely possible to write an encoder with similar performance characteristics as the earlier codecs.

What I'm getting at here is that AV1 isn't inherently computationally complex. Its reputation for being computationally complex comes from people looking at the reference encoder early on during development and treating that as the final product.

The reality is that it shouldn't be too far from HEVC in terms of computational complexity.
My hand was hurting after just 40 minutes of using an XR. I’m back on my 2016 SE.
Even before the lockdons went into effect the difference between Germany and France was puzzling.
Agreed, healthcare became a human right right around the time it changed from being mostly palliative care to curative care. I'll pinpoint it to somewhere between the invention of insulin and penicillin. It's at that point where healthcare outcomes really start to diverge between rich and poor.

Something I'll note, Jay Gould, one of the wealthiest men of his time died of tuberculosis - something we now think of as a poor persons disease.
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Paris has more of a sea climate than “250-300 km north of Greece”, giving it more moderate winters. http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Paris_climate.sht...:

”snowfall is somewhat of a rarity in Paris. Although there is at least a dusting of snow about 15 days a year, most accumulation generally disappears within 24 hours. The highest snowfall ever recorded in one day was 40 cm (15.75 in) on 2 March 1946“

Also, if there’s a meter of snow and ice on the bike lanes, there’s a meter of snow and ice on the car lanes, too.

Are those unusable in winter, too? Probably not, as they get cleared. That can be done with bike lanes, too (https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/tag/snow/)
RSS is a terrorist organisation.
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You are a sissy if you don't pick the other 11k packages by hand. Just go and use mac you fanboy.
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Get Burnol.
I wish more IRC interactions weren't "Question = RTFM"
The hardest thing is to accept that you don't really need CS as a software developer. Even programming tasks - digging into legacy code, implementing features etc. - requires no CS knowledge, and programming is just one thing sw devs do.

Other words: there's no CS topic which helps you during an estimation meeting.
I'd be fine if it was akin to airlines. More private suites, if you are willing to pay a massive premium. Pricier food. I would find it abhorrent if standard of care is any more economically stratified than it already is.
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They still pay taxes, though.

Germany allows people to opt out entirely, although there are a bunch of conditions and limitations. Most people don't, so the public system can still pay for itself.
1.) Your theory assumes that the cost difference at the hospital goes toward innovation. It ignores role of public money that goes into research. It is also not analyzing where the money are actually going.

2.) With this theory, if it is true, you are basically volunteering American patients to pay for innovation worldwide. That is quite a bad deal for quite a lot of American people.

3.)

> My speculation is that the rich people you refer to are more likely to be trained in economics (formally or otherwise) and are more likely to have a long term mindset regarding cost benefit tradeoffs.

They have also different interests. Good cost benefit tradeoffs for one group is often very bad deal for another group.
And stop the train when the wind is not blowing or it is cloudy.
Yes, but you are not capable of pointing out which people, and that is part of the problem here. If you could then you could take care of them on an individual basis. Which is one of the reasons most countries have some kind of social net to catch people in trouble. In an each-for-themselves-and-god-for-us-all setup those people will likely not make it. But that's no reason to address the superficial symptom, you'd do better to examine the root cause and fix that instead.
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager/tree/develop...

Looking at the source code of one of the critical pieces of that distro, we can see that it has about 5 active devs (in the past 2 years). To me it looks like a strong project. Will be interesting to see where it is in 5 years. They need more presence on the various Linux news/discussion sites.
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Totally agree. I'd like to love the light phone 2. It's just not quite there yet...
Part of the reason is that the US tends to treat any major political issue as though it is a spectator sport rather than as something society will have to find a good solution for.
Financial giants going to screw us all over, again? Who is really surprised here?
I've felt like the gap became smaller, either stuff isn't changing so fast anymore, or I just got lucky and only dealt with things that had good backwards compatibility.

Either way I'm usually always switching to testing about half a year before it becomes stable. It usually already is pretty stable at that point, and if I do encounter an issue I like to report it to give a little bit back, to help make the next stable release a little more stable from the start. :-)
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I agree with you on the main points. However, the reasoning behind proto-indo-european language family is weak, as it is not the only language family in India.
A meter of snow and ice wouldn't be good for cars either but we manage to keep the roads functional in winter. In all of central Europe, except perhaps high in the mountains, winters are manageable more or less comfortably if the bike paths are cleared.
Coming from Python as well I'm really impressed with the tooling. `mix new` is just amazing.
It’s 70mm wide, same as the new SE

The old SE that I’m currently using in 58.6mm

Neither google or android serve this market.
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It seems to me most businesses don't care about quality but about productivity and the time to market.

For most LOB apps the only thing that matters is using framework X, applying some flavor of the day principles like SOLID and DDD, using some software patterns, gluing different libraries with some code, copy-pasting from Stack Overflow and writing tests. A productive, well oiled machine which churns out software.
"Surrounding" California on one side? It's not an island.
My apologies, I didn't mean to come off harshly, it's approx 3 am here so I'm not exactly a ball of sunshine.

Do doc's need to spend 4 years doing an undergrad before med school? Maybe. There are a lot of things that you need to learn before you can learn what you need to be a doctor. Do you need to know physics? Eh, only kind of.

I'm not terribly familiar with the system in the UK, but at least where I went to school, most of the folks who were planning on going to med school studied either Chem, Biochem or straight Biology. In fact, it was something of an issue because the Chemistry courses tended to be weed out courses, i.e. you had to pass Organic chem 1 & 2 with a (3.0+)/4.0, or you didn't have a ghost of a chance of getting in to med school. I, personally, didn't know anyone who was planning on going to med school who was studying anything outside the STEM umbrella.

>Pretty sure med students have time to take ethics courses if they do a 5/6 year medical degree.
Reasonably. I was really only picking on this point because of, what I had thought was, a dismissal to the usage of the humanities as a doc.
Banksy took Warhol to a new level, who did the same with Picasso before.
GPUs may be used more and more for usage outside of graphics, but they don't lend themselves very well to audio, in particular recursive filters which are very common.
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This plagued me with a much older MBP (2010) for a long time before I stumbled on the solution by opening it up. It even preempts UI, which makes it especially maddening, as things start hitching. Turns out there was a solid mat of dust between the fans and the heat sinks. So it’s not always from charging on the left side.
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I use Ubuntu at work. Chromium is now snap only, and snap crapped itself with some error messages that didn't immediately lead to a solution when thrown into Google. Firefox was my main browser anyways so not too a great loss but oh man...
This is already a thing, but it‘s only done at “enterprise scale”. Meaning account managers meet with energy purchasers at large manufacturing plants to negotiate “interruptible supply” contracts. The notice periods, levels and tariffs are all negotiated individually. “Pricing managers” on both sides of the negotiation spend a long time modelling the deals in Excel. If algorithms could replace the pricing managers that would save both sides some time and money though, not to mention making it available to the residential and SME market.
shopflamingo.com gets 47

ca.braun.com gets 77

bejamas.io gets 96

So implementation dependent I guess
>This might be a good time when a representative democracy, composed of people who are willing to listen to experts and make the hard, unpopular, decisions, would be the best choice.

There's always the next election. It's hard to do unpopular things if you don't expect them eventually to become popular. E.g. lockdowns may be unpopular now, but if crisis can be avoided, it wouldn't hurt your election results. There is an exception though; if countries like Sweden don't have strict measures and still thrive, a lot of people will see that as a failure of your government.
"It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal."

There's another way?
Yet no phone manufacturer is willing to target the niche, they just all chase the sheep.
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Hello hackers,

I have always had a problem of not finding great resources for learning a subject from search. Almost all the time first page is full of SEO and Fluff content. So, I have spend an hour to find great content.

For instance, I have to open dozen of tabs then spent an hour to find great content from that dozen and voila, I have spent 1 hour and out of 20 videos/articles I could only 2 that met my needs.

So for me the broken part of search engines is the finding content when you're trying to learn new subject.

What's for you?
Hm.. have you tried the Face ID on iPhones or just the Samsung A70 and other single-camera style Face ID? My iPhone 11's Face ID works without issues even at night in bed, but I've used Honor 10 before and had a lot of issues with its face recog including night usability, so I rather disabled it..

Also headphone cable doesn't wake up my iPhone 11.
Currently about 80% full. Seems like a good time to top it off.
Typing messages is considered a PhD (?) level problem. Could you talk more about how you went about solving it? Thanks!
Assuming that /sys/class/leds/led{0,1} are already used for something ;)
The problem is that with modern fridges energy consumption is already low enough that steering that through smart meters probably isn't worth the investment. Large companies could use that, esp with electric heating. But in residential areas, I think energy efficiency can still yield greater results.
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Snap packages are the reason I moved from Ubuntu Mate to Fedora Mate.

I use free software to own my computer, if it decides on its own when to update like snaps do that defeats the purpose.
> I don't see how JOIN is like flatMap

This is explained in the blog post I linked, including an example.
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https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard has tables and real time search.
Oh yeah, used to be at least two more ways. Not sure which one of these are not possible but anymore, but you used to be able to do:

1) Synaptic package manager which is a GUI for searching and installing .debs. My first exposure to a package manager when I first installed Ubuntu some 12 years ago.

2) Simply double-clicking on the file, opening the Gdebi (I think?) UI for installing that specific .deb file.
> Surely there's a CPU/disk trade off at some point

At an extreme case, yes. Disk is SO CHEAP.
Good points!

If Facebook pulls out, the general population - not the economic or political elites - will suffer for it.

A political regime based on a framework of democratic values, beliefs and morals can only emerge if there's infrastructure to spread the idea: press, education, common causes and interests and so on are needed before change happens.

Facebook is just one element in that change. There's the narrative that Facebook enabled the Arab Spring uprisings. It did so because it filled the vacuum where free and independent press would exist.

You're right, Facebook doesn't have any requirement to be embedded in society. It's a private company. And one that claims to be anything but a content publisher (to avoid all kinds of pesky litigation). However, everyone has embraced and incorporated Facebook into the fabric of society due to it's ease of use. And so Facebook very much has a moral responsibility similar to that of any newspaper company.

After all, newspapers ranging from NYT to WaPo to the Globe aren't inherently required to publish (inter)nationally. They were originally local newspapers.

The big issue with Facebook is that it has acknowledged that it is as an advertising business, while people clearly want to use it as a publishing platform to spread ideas. There's a massive amount of dissonance to the detriment of everyone, including Facebook which gets a bad rep for it's actions.
In 18.04 you can install via the Software Center
This, for me, marks the release when (somewhat unfortunately, 18.04 LTS has been good) I will not use Ubuntu for any new installations - desktop or server. I can see how snaps are beneficial for novice desktop users who want an AppStore-like experience, but how do they see people adopting this for Ubuntu Server?
Only tried the Samsung one. Considering switching back to iPhone.
Demand will crash every time a pandemic of this magnittude happens and for whatever bizarre reason, we did not prep properly.
You don't have to audit that. It's so popular, someone else must have done a thorough review already!
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incidentally, the ancient harbor is now a part of the modern tunisian suburbs: https://goo.gl/maps/bFty3LBqkJ5DTdG88
I've not used Snap, Flatpack, Appimage and all the other types of app packaging tools before.

What are the benefits? Are they effectively like bundling an application with all its dependencies?
Is it a way of running "native" apps instead of in a docker container?

What should I and shouldn't be using it for?
OK those are just semantics. I generally walk to work(it's ~4km largely through green areas so a nice walk in the morning and evening). Somehow the idea of carrying a backpack with an extra pair of clothes and having to shower at work isn't very appealing to me. Semantically I mean "cyclist" as in I'll go for a joyride in the evenings and 5-6 hours during weekends. When it's nice and dry that is, rain and water probably bugs me more than you I suspect... And a lot of people around here by the looks of it.
Them being asleep is still realtime data. The realtime aspect comes from finding out as soon as they wake up.
May I propose, for your long expression of frustration, a simple fix. Don't use left join. Instead select x.x,x.y,y.x,y.z from x,y where x.x=y.z and ...;

This is the same operation but without the screwup syntax. The whole notion of left join style syntax is an abomination and - excepting for those who have internalized it to the detriment of normal discourse - represents needless cognitive load.
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This doesn't apply to procedures that are covered, though, does it? Like, a private plan that provides higher-quality / reduced wait times for all services you'd normally get from the public system.
I can presume many of the problems are due to coders rushing to write complex software without having a solid foundation and sufficient grasp of what they are doing.
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Sweden is starting to see sharp increase in daily deaths - 172 yesterday and 185 the day before - which for a country of 10 million is a lot.
For instance Czechia with roughly same population introduced lock down very early on and now their total is 210 - while Sweden's is 1937...