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Doesn't this experiment have a simple explanation that measuring something is essentially entangling yourself with it? So at the end of the thought experiment, both scientists and the test device are in a superposition together...

...except it's not that simple, and here is why I don't like those experiments (and why in reality, they're always realized using atoms, and not cats): there's no Wigner, or Schrödinger's cat, as a unit in physical sense. They're made of atoms. Atoms that interact and radiate information all the time. That box with a cat with it, the cat radiates information at the speed of light, which gets absorbed by the box and reradiated away. If the result of your thought experiment could be changed or confused by the following setup:

- a) put a broad-spectrum camera suite around the box prior to the experiment

- b) have it record data on the hard drive

- c) have the experimenter do their experiment

- d) have someone pull the data from the hard drive and read out the actual state of the experiment subject

... then it means your explanation for the thought experiment is wrong.
Good news, it's not Apple, so you can still easily download and install the app.

The bad news is Google is acting like Apple.
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>Just a note on the word "nationalist" re: Taiwan. It's confusing to most, but in Taiwan, "nationalist" is the pro-China faction, due to historical association of that term with the KMT.

>"Green," pro-independence, or "TI" (Taiwan Independence) would be the less confusing term for the side you think might lose with this development.

TIL, thanks for sharing!
Whilst it does not work natively, there are working 3rd party products that let you backup on Android and restore on iPhone. Or at least there were 2.5 years ago.
At what point is this wrongthink under the guise of public safety?
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Haha I might have misread an "or" as an "of". Your robots sound great, a real benefit to humanity.
Having boosters cover the employment costs of public employees creates it’s own set of potential problems.
I don't think you've read the parent comment very closely, if I'm mistaken please point out to me where they exactly discuss localization of browsers and Danish operating systems? Those are factors you've put into your definition of what by default means.

It is however not what I experience when I look at my Danish localized firefox because it sends da-DK by default, and my english browser sends en-Us, because I took the effort to make it so, because I don't much like the Danish language for UI.

I admit this is just a quick look over of the different language browsers I have on my system. What do the different language browsers on your system do that you feel so confident in telling me to pay more attention to the parent comment?
This just shows how bad our reaction was. We spent years looking for WMDs and came up empty handed. We should have done nothing, just like this situation. People are getting sick of this s*.
I am even "less default" than that, expecting the dates to be formatted the way I've defined them in the system setting (it can be set separately from the language), and some programs ignore that too.
The green crackers/biscuits/wafers need shipped.
If I were in your position and had money to blow, I'd ask medical experts if it's possible to prevent the genetic mutation from being passed on. Can they do screening? Can they transplant a healthy chromosome to replace the broken one?

If I didn't I'd ask a healthy relative of hers to donate eggs to implant into her.
Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
I'm an independent developer and in this thread I will show you the succession of events that lead to Google ban of my app.

In september 2019 I decided to start developing as a fulltime project an Android app about physical events in Spain.

At the end of February 2020 I launched the app.

March 14 2020 started the confinement in Spain. Weeks later I decided to pivot the app to include online events, movies and tv shows ranking of online streaming platforms.

This May 2020, I launched the update and reoriented the app as a Things to do app (Only available in Spain). So I used the following description of the app:

Title: "Tintodo - Things to do"

Short description: "The best things to do, online events and movies"

Full description:

"Are you thinking of things to do when bored? Or are you planning what to do tomorrow? With this app you can discover online events and movies from your favourite online platforms.

Find out online events in your quarantine like activities, meetups, cooking recipes, business and networking events. You can also filter the types of events and if they are free or paid events.

Thanks to this app, you will never be bored tonight. You have a ranking of the best movies in all online movie platforms, which will allow you to enjoy this confinement and is one of the main sources of things to do in your free time.

Note: We don’t play movies in this app. This app allows you to browse movies in your favorite platform, some of the movies are free, some not, the owners of those platforms are the ones who own the rights of the movies."

17 May 2020, Google suspended my app for using keywords related to COVID-19.

This is my case, but in a near future, how I can advertise my users or future users that my app behaviour is different due to COVID, I have no chance. 8 months developing that lead to a suspension for using covid words, at least, It's not 9 years like the Podcast Addict app.
If they do nothing, someone will take them to court for promoting false information about COVID-19 that gets someone killed.

There is no win-win scenario on policy enforcement when a company gets big enough.
Nothing will come of this though, and the masses will continue to bleat about them being private entities that are allowed to do this.
> That's the state of affairs now, but it was not the case in 1982

Maybe you know more than me here, but I think GCHQ, CIA, AIVD, BND, were all civilian in 1982 as well.
iPhones are in minority outside the US, WhatsApp is simply the Universal Apple Messages replacement, because it’s a lightweight app.
I’d like to see some nice analysis on this because my experience was completely the opposite.

I don’t work on open source much (a few lines over 20 years), but the only patch I made was super welcoming and a dev bent over backwards to teach me how to diff and submit patches. I just assumed this was common.
* also, this should have read "bed-hosting"
Please remember: each open source project is a different person, sometimes literally. That they share licensing ideologies does not necessarily mean the people producing them behave the same way. That said it's fairly well known that the pressure of hoards of obligated users on popular projects can easily push the most patient of authors over the edge.

As some anecdata: My experience in various open source projects as a submitter of bugs, fixes and features has been welcomed with respect and understanding even when we don't agree or I turn out to be the ignorant one.
You try to wrongly compare to Iraq of all places instead of other first-world, high income places.
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It might have been correct to say there's no evidence in March (which is not a reason to not do something, we would still be in the Stone Age if every action we took required evidence.). There's plenty of evidence now as we have data for both going into and coming out of lockdown.
YouTube has banned harassment for a while now. That why YouTube comments are mostly memes now instead of a complete cesspool like they used to be. I'm sure YouTube bans other political slurs like "libtard." That doesn't mean they're doing it at the behest of the Democratic Party.
My feeling is that it's very rare for people to configure their preferred language in the browser. It's a setting buried somewhere in the menus, and anecdotally I would say most people don't even know such a setting exists. I suspect that, for the vast majority of people, their preferred language list is the default, which is then one entry, the same as the browser's UI language.
Raleigh is a college town around the college (Western Blvd to Hillsborough St) for sure, but there are enough tech jobs (Citrix, Red Hat, many smaller shops) and state government to keep things going regardless of how universities are affected.

This is to say nothing of RTP and other areas outside of downtown.

Raleigh is well-positioned to handle this and while NC State is a huge draw, not the only game in town.
It wasn't just the US military. There were plenty of jogging circuits around strange desert installations in Syria by joggers who had recently jogged around military bases in Russia, at a time when Russia was claiming no deployments and only observers and things.

There were also armchair people wondering about other tracks in various places in the world.
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This is exactly why we should stop those megalomaniacs at Google (or other) from taking over Podcasting... We don't want to repeat the same RSS mistake again.

If you respect and enjoy podcasts, don't use google apps.

Edit: my recommendation is AntennaPod. I used to use and love PocketCast until NPR effed it.
I see someone with severe mental issues doing this, but now saying all women were surprised to not being forced to sleep with the owner is quite a stretch.

Just validates my belief that most "real life stories" posted in the comments section are bs.
Chinese trash wuhan tiananmen square
Hey sorry I’m not in the know, but what’s wrong with classes and styling?
> Students graduating this year will not be able to remain and work in the US because the US has stopped processing work visas and are explicitly preventing immigrants from getting new jobs.

What story are you referring to? I've seen stories around the edges of this kind of thing for H1B's, but nothing so definite.

A student graduating now wouldn't need one yet anyone because they get two years of OPT if they were in STEM.
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No, lately there's a completely normal trend of taking into account that true consent can only be given without constraint.
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I have absolutely zero democratic involvement in the USA's intelligence apparatus, although I am liable to be a subject of its attention. This violates my participation in my own country's sovereign legislation designed to protect my rights - therefore, it is no longer substantively valid.
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Seems to work properly in Firefox (https://i.imgur.com/AQ2M1G3.png) but breaks in Chrome (https://i.imgur.com/U2tVg2k.png); Chrome doesn't accept the margin value (https://i.imgur.com/pH7X0ZO.png).

When the margin works, the logic makes sense. 50vw sets the padding of the side in question (e.g. left) to the middle of the screen, 50% subtracts half of the containing element's width (<body>) from it. Doing this for both left and right and then negating it with equal negative margins results in the content area in the header being centered and having the same width as body, but the padding stretching out to the edges of the window.
Of course they led this. How could drug companies exist on open sourced patents?
One might say 'it is only the free market system that incents development of new drugs, without which we would all die unmedicated (AKA the ultimate revenge against your MD).
There needs to be a middle ground. How else can we eliminate this egregious abuse of the US poor.
from wikiperdia:
Albendazole was developed in 1975.[5] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system.[6] The wholesale cost in the developing world is between 0.01 and US$0.06 per dose.[7] In the United States, as of 2019, the wholesale cost is about US$128 per dose.[8]
I've been maintaining Chart.js [0] since 2014. I only work on it during my free time (evenings and weekends) to avoid any problems with my day job.

Conflict with my day job is also one of the reasons why I don't take donations. There is some benefit to that though because it allows me to take a day/week/month off if I need it without feeling guilty. Once there is money involved, there are a lot more expectations and I think I would have a harder time putting it down.

0: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js/
I wonder if YT deletes comments or content critical of the U.S.? Based on some of the comments here, only China is being shielded from criticism...
I don't understand, what do you mean by overall rule, and what is the exception?
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Maybe if every second application wasn't a skinned Chrome browser we'd have 2MB to spare for a GIF.
Having integrated with that API before, I would be totally unsurprised to find the whole system was a complete mess.
I disagree that they are being consistent. An almost-equivalent move would be suspending the entire YouTube app, and making a new entry in the Play Store after they have removed all offending content. But at least YouTube has some ability to remove content, so that would actually make more sense than suspending Podcast Addict which plays third-party-hosted media.
This depends on whether you think the pizza restaurant's customer is doordash.

You could make a good argument that this was the case. The restaurant sells to doordash, who paid for a pizza with toppings.
That is akin to not letting them have guns in modern warfare. Or a field shovel.
I disagree. For many simple things you can get a long way without or with minimal amount of classes. Coincidentially I am working on implementing some changes to a really bad case of the vile disease classinitis. With names such as: xyz_product__form and g-region--desktop-one-half. Lest not forget about their actual use in the markup:
`class="form-field__input form-field__input--button button button--cta button--large button-mobile-full u-flex-1"`

Ah how could I even live without getting hired for this job and all of its lustful classes?!
I don't know about China in particular, but I find youtube censorship to be particularly deceitful.

If you make a comment, and it is censored for some reason, perhaps the video owner blocked you or whatever, the comment still shows; TO YOU. When you are logged in, you can see your comment.

But no-one else can see it.

Log out, or logon as someone else, and your comment is simply not there.

I found a similar thing with facebook. If you join a group, and are then banned for some reason (I'm not sure the exact mechanism), you can no longer see the group - it's as though it doesn't exist; it doesn't show in searches, etc. But log out, or logon as someone else, and there it is.

This 'customized view of reality' seems to me much more dangerous than simple censorship.
This censorship has been criticized quite a bit for the last several years.

You probably missed our complaints, though, as on sites like HN, Reddit, etc. we were all downvoted into oblivion.

Conservatives who've had this happen to them were just told to suck it up cause the tech companies are muh private corporations, and there are consequences to free speech... or something like that.
Clever!

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Why wouldn't the pizza place order $100K worth of pizza from themselves to themselves? They don't even have to make it.
That comment's only mention of fear is the fear of covid. What are you insultingly responding to?
Nice book with very clear explanations (sometimes a little too elementary).

However, I found the chapter on generating functions a little frustrating: it gives a very good explanation of what they are, tells you they're super useful, and gives no example of an actual problem where they're used.
I guess "freedom" can't just be the dismantling of a government. Since "freedom" as our societies value it only emerges in the context of some ordered society and government that protects those things.

The problem in those places seems to not have been, how hard is it to get rid of the established order, but rather, how hard is it to create a new order which preserves people's freedoms.
"Chinese trash" may have been caught by their anti-harassment/insult/racism filters.

If that's the case, I'm glad. Youtube comments are too often absolutely awful.

Or maybe the random set of words was caught as spam.

There are plenty of content on China, Wuhan, or Tiananmen Square, so these words themselves obviously do not trigger anything.
Try to post some grammatically incoherent comment and include the words "penis", "enlargement", and "pills". Let us know how it went.

This is probably just an anti-spam measure. There are many anti-china bots out there, so posting off-topic bot-like comments will get you removed.

What happened to Occam's razor?
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Telcos are private. They are not allowed to disconnect calls when people are talking about things they don't like. They are not allowed to drop accounts for organizations saying things they don't like.

Electric companies are mostly private. They are not allowed to cut off electricity to people/orgs that say things they don't like.
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How is Whatsapp support? Phone without WhatsApp is currently nogo here.
What a great signal for thieves too - this user has enough disposal income to have a fitness device, and is worried about being tracked, they must have good stuff.

Presumably you could filter by average speed and only get people with expensive bikes too.
Can confirm works on my own videos, even if they are unlisted. My own video, 0 views, 0 comments.

共匪, 五毛党, or 五毛

These are all instantly deleted, roughly 10-20s
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A lot of British intelligence during WW2 was gleamed not from the contents of the messages they intercepted, but rather from tracking who was where and communicating with whom.

And if you stop soldiers from using mobile phones on restricted ground, you are just going to have lots of tracks stopping abruptly at the gates and secure facilities identifiable by their lack of emissions.

Patterns.

There have been great examples of correctly identifying the crews of nuclear submarines by their predictable periods of time offline.
May as well remove the fucking Chrome browser while they're at it.
We have statistics that show otherwise.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-gsuite-idUSKBN1F...
> Due to roughly exponential growth in the number of developers of all kind over last couple of decades

That is certainly true until ~2010, but I wonder if it still holds today. At some point it's got to taper off due to the global population being finite. Anyone got some data on this?
Nonsense. I agree, the soldiers should not be permitted to have cellphones in critical areas unless exception is given for some other reason. There are ways to communicate using encrypted communication bands used by police etc. They could be using small handheld devices for 2 way radio and basic messaging.
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It was a comment on my own video, and this is after I saw a clip from a friend doing the same thing to one of his videos - random words that would be picked up be a naive regex.
I know that HN is living in a bubble but you realize that there are more industries besides tech and FAANG? Car manufacturers and their thousands of suppliers for example.

Wikipedia says regarding Volkswagen in China:

> In 1984, Volkswagen signed a 25-year contract to make passenger cars in Shanghai. Since, at that time, vehicle manufacturers could not own a majority stake in a manufacturing plant, Volkswagen's venture took the limit of 50 per cent foreign ownership.

I'm glad that someone else answered my comment sincerely instead of making a snarky comment that turns out to be wrong.
I'm a bit curious why this is being down-voted. It is certainly a 100% accurate description of United States policy.
I can only assume that such a large order would be eventually flagged by the system. But I imagine ordering 50 pizzas every night can be relatively "normal"(feeding the night shift or whatever).
My guess is they will send a code to your registered address, which is a must if you live in the Netherlands. I just lost my phone and retrieved my DigiID through this way.
Reminds me of a story I heard: In a conflict, Russia sent SMS to the mothers of Ukrainian(?) soldiers, informing them of their son’s death (pretending to be the Ukrainian government/military). The mothers, distraught, called their son’s cellphone. The increased, clustered cellphone activity near the frontline gave away the unit positions. Shortly after, Russian bombs dropped.
What are the chances that this could be solved by having the German government (or EU) overpay to poach a team of instant messaging engineers from around the globe (give them 2x their current salary, have milestones to unlock more money) to have them develop a Whatsapp alternative that can be used in EU?
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This is very promising, although the data set is very small. At least, it is worth continuing testing, given that neutralizing antibodies are generated.
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I doubt he ordered dry pasta. Most likely he ordered 10 or so of every pasta dish on the menu.

What restaurants let you order dry pasta beside the ones in food halls?