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> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.

I mean, it's also lunacy that the US government would run concentration camps, right?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/aoc-holocaust-why-mi...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentratio...

The issue I take with your argument is, politics in the United States aren't "normal". Maybe they never were "normal". But I think the notion is, this is more than a "political" disagreement over whether the tax rate should be 23% or 25%. We're in the midst of a fundamental moral disagreement about whose lives matter.
Another opinion: Instead for going after the words, go after the facts.

The US is the world's largest slave owner state. Their prison system is the modern equivalent of a slave economy under slave jurisdiction, and the treatment of illegal foreign labor not much different. How about legal reforms?
Yes you could! These lease sales can get quite expensive if they're worth anything to oil and gas companies. My company has been party to auctions for clients that have stretched into seven figures alone. Other times, many leases don't see a single bid and you could snatch up acreage for next to nothing.

EDIT: As the article and some Google searching shows, apparently the BLM can deny a lease on the basis of lack of intent to drill (or at least they are trying). I did not know this was something they could attempt and I stand (potentially) corrected. A major effort to raise money to tie up Federal minerals would likely create enough noise to where the BLM might try to deny leases.
So, while it's still easily available, are there any particular flash games or content I should check out?
Some guy Craig may soon have a 10 year mineral rights lease on some small lot in Utah…

The author of this ad “is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign”, doesn’t even mention the size of this “large swath”, so I’m left to wonder if it is even similar in size to the 1,100 acre example he gives, which itself would be 0.002% of Utah; that’s not a large swath. I have multiple friends with larger farms than this in a single town.

If I stake a claim to pan for gold in Montana, I wonder if he will write an article about me.
Thank you for the clarification, I misunderstood that point. Whatever law-enforcement entities we will have to replace the police, should certainly have independent oversight, I agree. However, for the current police regime, it is still too little, too late.
Illegal immigrants are a minority group. Whether or not there is a legal argument for the concentration camp is orthogonal to whether or not it is a concentration camp. The Nazis didn't break the law either.
Because it is bundled in with most OSs now. You have it without even realizing it. ... For now ...
Your argument is full of false equivalencies.

A government agency cannot be a victim of discrimination, at least not in any way that matters. It is not a person, and does not have rights.

A government agency refusing to follow its orders is in no way parallel or analogous to a private company refusing to serve a particular customer. In the first case it's an illegal act, where the result will be the firing/jailing of the offenders (with the removal of their access that enables them to disobey), while in the second case it's just a normal, legal, expected outcome of business sometimes.

> the correct attitude is to fight for a Government change

Private entities refusing to do business with certain parts of the government is an aspect of fighting for government change. GitHub refusing to do business with ICE is a collective way for GH's employees and executives to lobby the government for change.
Personally I feel like these changes are silly but it is not a hill I want to die on. I understand some may think this is a slippery slope but as a society we've been sliding down it for years now. Just make the change and move on. Focus on problems that matter.
Sorry, this wouldn't work at all. I don't have time and desire to verify their neutrino beam / neutron shower calculation, but they want to detonate bombs by raising the core temperature to 300C, assumed ignition temperature of surrounding explosives.

This doesn't work, because: 1) you cannot detonate explosives there by simple ignition, 2) you need a very precise timing for simultaneous activation of all detonators, to achieve the smooth shockwave front, and 3) even if all this somehow happened, you just can't explode the bomb just lying around AT ALL, as it is not in pre-critical configuration yet. There are many things that need to happen simultaneously, in exact order and with nanosecond precision. There are PAL devices that provide encrypted timing differences to the detonation controller by loading external codes — without these codes, it is physically impossible to achieve nuclear explosion, even if you somehow activated all other things from pre-detonation checklist. Etc etc.

Not to mention that in the real bomb, there is much less plutonium than 10 kg they have mentioned.

I assume the rest of the paper is of similar quality.
Just as a point of clarification: timescale materialized views don't allow joins during materialization. But you can join materialized views arbitrarily at query time. (TimescaleDB engineer here)
Although it may not really fit what you're looking for, there was a one-hour video linked here a few days ago that critiziced the entire modern desktop GUI landscape.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AItTqnTsVjA

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480002
it seems the end game of this is to disappear the words slave and master from our vocabulary, so we can't express those ideas anymore and let slavery expand unhindered
Try it out in your browser - emulated in WebAssembly: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/...
But Peter Kirn, the author, is not a company, he's a musician. He's not selling music software so he can't (as per the sibling comment) racewash it.
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23499672
>> While we’ll likely never run out of need for human labor, it’s very possible we’re running out of capital investment opportunities

Is this true? automation is essentially a emphasis from human to physical capital. It seems like we're continuing to reduce and specialize human capital while growing other forms.

Now I definitely see an end to passive capital gains in traditional financial markets; there's a lot of money sloshing around with not enough good places to put it. Anything near-passive (i.e. real estate) is also feeling similar pressures. It seems like a great time to build big projects that take a huge amount of money, I'm just not on board with pure public funding and all the issues that go with that.
Gotta raise those royalty rates!
I think the slippery slope argument is actually quite relevant here. In my opinion it is about how you argue things. If the CEO or who has power just says "I decided to drop this client because of my personal advocacy" then there is no slippery slope, if they say "this client is too immoral we cannot support them" then you are very easily open to direct comparisons.
I have looked into this a few years ago. The leases only give you some limited rights. It isn't like you can go live there. There are a lot of rules about how the land can be used. You still have to permit public access to the land, etc.
Absolutely unreal. Either things are worse than people are letting on, the Fed is simply refusing to let the market drop any further due to optics, or both.

I hope anybody who is bearish on stocks has closed out any short positions because at this point, I can't see how stocks will be allowed to go down.
It seems to me that we change things all the time in the computer/software field, languages, platforms, UIs, OSs, etc. are always changing, often at great cost with dubious benefit. Python 3 is one example, Angular is another. I could list examples for days, literally.

Therefore, to me, the idea that changing the default branch name on GitHub entails great cost without tangible benefits is a non-starter.

I'd rather argue about Python 3.
Seems rather interesting. I've been thinking of buying a Synology DS918+, since I want a NAS and a Plex server, but that's like 530 euro at the very cheapest. However, I can find HPE Microservers starting at 350 euro. That's like the price of a 4 TB NAS drive saved there already.
“If, if is good”
- Panic
It's fixed line length, and results in a large portion of the comment being hidden off the right hand side on a mobile device.
Looks like mobile carriers are targeted: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/t-mobile-sprint-att-and-ve...

Also, a huge peak on https://downdetector.com/
It GREATLY depends on the area. Just because someone nominated Federal acreage up for leasing doesn't mean there is anything worthwhile to drill on. That said, if a lease receives bids from different companies, you can assume there is some potential for economic recovery of hydrocarbons.
When I saw the title I read it as BC aka BCE aka some really ancient mining artifacts. Still cool, but let down.
Not only climate change but even just restoring wildlife habitats. I'd love to see an effort to minimize land used or modified by humans.
Flash sockets don't transport HTTP requests. You might be able to tunnel them through WebSockets, but that'd turn the "helper server" into what would amount to an open network proxy -- it'd be trivial to abuse.

It's kind of a moot point, though; I doubt that the networking servers that these games depended on are still online. That's a whole separate preservation problem.
Thank you. While public blog posts or social media threads would be better, if you've personally seen or heard black friends or colleagues talking about being bothered by Git branches being called "master," at least that's something.

A statement of support not paired with more concrete action is not much but at minimum a clear statement establishes a standard they can be held to in the future, e.g. "you said you support Black Lives Matter, why aren't voting for Bill 1234?"
Doesn't work very well on mobile.
Why Patents Don't Stop People from Stealing Your Invention
No, the people who want this change literally built the tech. [1] All of you getting triggered and crying from the peanut gallery need to develop some perspective and go back to work.

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=21
If we're being sticklers, in this context you have to take the meaning of the word "master" in relation to its counterpart, "slave"; the other definitions are irrelevant.
(To clarify, Disney owns ESPN, which has exclusive distribution deal with UFC.)
Or you could use Tranquility which still works throughout the ages even when 'macOS' was once called 'OS X':

https://github.com/lswank/Tranquility
I see. Then how did it get on their site?
Ok thanks. Sorry about that
Hey, this thread is great, thanks for the link!
> This isn’t technically correct when Flatpak is installed via your distribution. Then it is managed by your packaging system and it’s data should live in a /var/lib.

Besides, this is silly: they go in /var/lib/flatpak, which is for flatpak's program state information. (Exported desktop files and whatnot go to /var/lib/flatpak/exports/, which is pointed to by `$XDG_DATA_DIRS`).

I mean, if you want to go all Militant Unix Admin on it and install apps to /opt, you can `man flatpak` and set `FLATPAK_SYSTEM_DIR=/opt/flatpak`, but unless your system spans a dozen hard drives I'm not sure what that's going to achieve.

I guess this is sort of an ownership conundrum: a flatpak app is run _via_ flatpak. On its own, it's just a heap of files.
feeling pretty good about the fact that some friends and i decided to get our licenses early into quarantine via remote online testing. highly recommend it if you're interested, some people are not aware of the fact that morse code requirements were dropped long ago and the question pool is available from a number of excellent study help sites (hamstudy.org is what I used).
From 0 to GlTF with WebGPU: The First Triangle
Maybe consider Mozilla Hubs as a starting platform? You can both easily build your own virtual worlds, and also hack on the platform itself if you like.

https://hubs.mozilla.com/
Does this add anything that many of the more popular and widely-used crypto libraries offer? I haven't been able to find anything, but am always curious to try new tools.
It isn't passing into private ownership, though. It is for a 10 year lease on the mineral rights; you still need to make a separate deal to get access through the surface to get to the minerals.
The paper seems to be talking about merely destroying bombs, rather than getting a nuclear yield.
Oh, so that's why no one at my work can get on our VPN now. We need to do away with SMS 2FA immediately.
> you have to have a very high level of motivation to follow a project through to where you have something to be proud of. Without outside guidance and clear reasons to chase a goal for a long time (like doing well in competition), it all falls apart.

Honestly that’s what every project I try feels like :-(
> [P]olice officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98% of the dollars that plaintiffs recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement. Law enforcement officers in my study never satisfied a punitive damages award entered against them and almost never contributed anything to settlements or judgments—even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy, and even when officers were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.

https://www.nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-89-number-3/polic...
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Ajay from TimescaleDB here.

In general, a time-series database makes architectural decisions and focuses on capabilities for time-series data that lead to orders of magnitude higher performance and a better developer experience.

For example, TimescaleDB:

- Auto-partitions data into 100s-10,000s of chunks, resulting in faster inserts and queries, yet provides the Hypertable abstraction that allows you to treat the data as if it lives in a single table (eg full SQL, secondary indexes, etc)

- Provides Continuous Aggregates, which automatically calculate the results of a query in the background and materialize the results [1]

- Supports native compression, using a variety of best-in-class algorithms based on datatype (eg delta-of-delta encoding, Simple-8b RLE, XOR-based compression (aka "Gorilla" compression), dictionary compression [2]

- Adds other capabilities like interpolation, LOCF, data retention policies, etc, that are necessary for time-series data

- Scales up on a single node, or out across multiple nodes

There's more, but I'll stop because I don't want this to sound like marketing.

You are welcome to implement this yourself (and our docs explain how if you'd like), but most find it easier to use the database we already provide for free[3]. :-)

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/continuo...

[2] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...

[3] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/multi-node-petabyte-scale-ti...
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Yes, that is correct. HTML can declare languages (which are also useful for automatically selecting fonts), so that should be used for searching, too, in addition to font selection, indexing, etc.

Another idea would be to do that in Swedish text, "é" will always be represented in decomposed form, while "ä" will always be represented in precomposed form, so that you can tell the difference.
Is there any evidence that reducing the public's focus on fighting racism will increase its focus on fighting black-on-black crime, reducing poverty, reforming prisons, etc.?

I doubt it. Some issues are great for publicity, and others are much more difficult to get into the hyper-competitive limelight. In fact, I'd bet that there are spillover effects where attention and donations to other pro-Black causes increases while BLM is in the spotlight.
Well now I'm even more intrigued. Online petitions and donations for "green" movements can routinely generate hundreds of thousands in donations.

It doesn't seem like it would be difficult (for the right person) to 1) create a non-profit 2) collect donations designated for the preservation of land 3) bid on key parcels, or even just strategic parcels. Imagine a 10,000 acre parcel where every other acre is owned by a non-profit (if it works that way).
I've also made HDMI over USB-C work recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gryM8n9kU

This device will be a nice portable computer, so I can travel lightly with a phone, but use it as full blown desktop anywhere I can get hold of a monitor and an USB keyboard/mouse, without having to downgrade my user experience to Android.
Personally, and perhaps I should have said this in my first comment, I would challenge the premise that the dictionary definition should be a controlling factor in responding to this whole question.

For me, it's more about looking at the potential for harm. I happen to be a white man with no particular harm one way or another associated with terms like these, but I can understand how people with other experiences might feel impacted by being surrounded by terminology like this.

It doesn't hurt me at all to change the terms I use, and if other people with other backgrounds think it's important to do it, I don't have any problem with that.
Worth mentioning that Okular (alongside other KDE software, Kate and KStars) is on Microsoft Store.
Only if they misrepresent the situation in their SEC filing, which (if you read the risks section) sure doesn't seem like they are.

there's at least a 1/2 dozen instances of "because we are in bankruptcy protection <potential bad thing>"
If this happens I do hope he includes another riveting interview where you say "no comment" several different ways.
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Nothing unique. Any database can store "time-series" data. If you look at InfluxDB (key/value) or TimescaleDB (relational), they offer things like high precision time values, higher compression algorithms that work better with timestamps, utilities to make it easier to query for time (buckets, timezones, gap-filling), automatic rollups and aggregations, data deletions based on time, etc.

You can do all that yourself on Redshift but they just offer more built-in functionality for it.
Who said that was the goal? That doesn't make any sense. It would cost billions to buy up land on the east coast and only inflate the value of the remaining land.

Outside of monuments and parks most of the land the gov owns in western states is undesirable. You can already buy very cheap land in the middle of nowhere UT, NM, NV, and AZ. The market for off grid desert land with no water is small.
> ...I just translated that shit into CSV and loaded it into Postgres, then post-processed it into a relational schema that I can actually understand and query with a language that other people at my company also know. The RDF was just a poorly specified way of communicating that schema to me, along with a data format that's no better than a 3-column CSV. Great stuff from the Semantic Web folks here, real powerful technology.

I'm not sure what's the point you're trying to make, that is exactly what RDF is for! It's not an implementation technology, it's purely an interchange format. You should not be using a fully-general triple store, unless you really have no idea what the RDF you work with is going to look like.

SPARQL is the same deal; it's good for exposing queryable endpoints to the outside world, but if your queries are going to a well-defined relational database with a fixed schema and the like, you should just translate the SPARQL to SQL queries and execute those.
I'm pretty sure GP is referring to all the PWA-friendly features that are missing on iOS, of which there are many.
Is “slave” an industry term of art? Certainly most people are familiar with the concept of a “master copy” - keys, documents, etc. but computer networking is the only time I’ve ever encountered the word “slave” thrown around so cavalierly.
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Yes! I worked in precious metals exploration and the staking process seemed kinda crazy to me---racing up and down the hills in prospective areas, carrying the paperwork and bottles to put it them in (you can't use regular glass because the sun will eventually set the paper on fire). Guess it still is, at least in some states.
Pretty hard. The feds can’t just gain property. They have it in the west by having reserved it in the first place. That is, federal land in the west never belonged to the state.

Now what we should have done over the last twenty years is just buy Canada. It works have only cost a few trillion dollars (non-urban areas only) and would have radically expanded federal holdings.
Honestly, probably not. It’s not the best for most rewards categories but it’s integration into iOS is really nice and it’s security features aren’t bad. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people though
Russia isn't taking over Eastern Europe. I work in the region and have friends all over the Balkan states, from Vienna to Pristina, and nobody in my circle has any misconceptions about what Russia is up to - its very generally accepted that it was all about Russia keeping its one blue-water port and protecting the nuclear base from the Ukraine coup d'etat, while providing support to the Russian population in the region.

On the ground, its a VERY different attitude to the Wests' propaganda on the subject. Nobody expects Russia to invade any country anywhere near the scale that the Western 5-eyes coalition has done, catastrophically, all over the Middle East and Asia.
Some tools already do this. Reason switched in 2017: https://www.reasonstudios.com/en/reason/updates/release-note...

> Reason 10.0.1 / Reason Essentials 10.0.1 Release Notes

> ReWire master/mixer and slave/device is now always referred to as "host" and "device"
Performance was the big issue. Not just on Apple devices but on all devices. Same laptop running Windows, same video from Youtube if you play and pause on both (SWF and HTML). The Flash video will keep the fans running at high speed. Remember the first few phones with Flash could play through a 2 hour movie without a charger. To optimize Flash, Adobe needed to cut off compatibility and they knew if they do that then why would anyone continue with Flash when HTML/JS was getting feature parity.
Government leased land tends to contribute far more to climate change. Landowners tend to be better stewards of their property than renters or bureaucrats.

Examples include cattle overgrazing on BLM land, fracking on leased land, military activities (the worst offender of them all) and really any mineral/oil/gas/water exploitation in which the user has no incentive to keep the land in good quality (e.g. maintaining a resale value).

It's counterintuitive, but unless you make it all a National Park, pretty much every other government land use will cause more harm than privatization.
And why not? If you say you are very religious and pray to your god before you push your branches I would look at you very weird, I am sorry... Maybe I am a bad person but...

And more over, everyone can register a religion these days, look at Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption... So if someone wakes up one morning and starts a religion out of a joke I should be forced not to discriminate against him?

But replace John Oliver with Jewish religion and now this argument sounds different.

But that is the problem with context... I don't like blanket laws making me do things.
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