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Wikipedia is not an authority on anything. It will be just as wrong as the misconceptions of whoever wrote the synopsis.

The term black swan in this context was coined by Nassim Taleb; he wrote a book about it, which when fully understood distinguishes predictable but rare from completely unexpected.

That Wikipedia manages to mangle this doesn’t mean the originator of the term suddenly became wrong.
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Then we should also capitalize White as well as Black.
I bet we'll see nearly no refugees from Hong Kong when data starts appearing in a few years.
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Former 1990s pizza delivery driver here. I used paper maps extensively. He's right.

He's right that speed matters. It matters when you are driving in traffic and you need to know where to take that left turn. I don't use Google Maps or any map app when I'm driving because it's too damn dangerous. Much better to take a screenshot of the map beforehand because jpgs don't take 45 seconds to load. Sure, you can pull over and wait a minute for the map to load (and sometimes I do this), but with a paper map you can just fold it so that the area you are driving in appears and with a glance you can see where that turn is. Load speed ~0.5 seconds.

The issue, as far as I am concerned, is not with the UI of the apps, but with the OS. It strikes me as completely primitive that modern OS's (and I include browsers, because they are basically a one-abstraction-layer-higher OS) don't have a proper way of prioritizing the user's needs, instead leaving it to the applications. It's an abdication of responsibility IMHO.

I'm sure there are challenges and reasons why it is that way. Maybe there are experimental OS's which do this properly or ways to tweak existing ones. I don't know enough about this. I'd be happy to learn more from those of you who do...
This is the biggest fallacy peddled by upper castes against reservation/quotas and to deny that caste discrimination in India. Reservations in India are not meant to equalize income or opportunities among the castes. They are meant to keep the government machinery unbiased against the 'lower' castes through representation - so that their services are not biased against lower caste citizens. It has nothing to do with the economic status of the reserved castes. Why is it needed? Precisely because of the type of incidents explained in the news article. It's extremely common for dalit officers to be harassed and denied opportunity by upper caste groups playing politics. Same goes for recruitment. This is far more common than the incidents where a reserved category person is promoted without merit. Just imagine how prevalent that is in India if they are willing to take such toxic practices to a corporation in US. That my friend, is the harsh reality. I didn't want that whitewashing narrative to go unchallenged here.
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I'd be interested in an intuitive explanation of the units of electromagnetic quantities.

E.g. the unit of magnetic flux is equivalent to volt times seconds, and inductance is volt times seconds per ampere. But I can't find intuitive explanations for this
I use the same VPN and have had no problems with this. In fact, part of the reason I subscribe is I see less captchas and it keeps me from getting locked out of my account when I'm traveling.

VPNs are not perfect though. Check out https://mullvad.net/en/help/faq/

They block some ports and do some workarounds for weak spots like webrtc. Some sites might be applying hacks. Cloudflare is a known problem but it could depend on which IP you pick.
This seems like a clear test case for whether law is pro-business in the special interest case of one or a few companies or as the reinforcement of efficient and competitive markets.
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Is that just an Indian thing? Because in my family, here in Rural Iowa, the in-laws include a woman from New Delhi, Valencia Spain, Baguio Philippines, 2nd generation Elba Italy, Korea. That doesn't count the New Englanders and Appalachians (which is a whole different thing than Iowan).

I mention it because, a spouse of a different culture can be a wonderful thing. Language, food, daily culture are a constant source of enjoyment and growth.
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I really hope this doesn’t happen - Norwegian is the best low cost long haul airline out there. Round trip AUS-LGW tickets can be found for sub $500 on Norwegian. The premium is also very competitive for the same flight ($800-1200) when competitors doing similar route (BA) charge more than double that, and the service certainly isn’t doubled. They are also flying very new planes and as such are a much nicer experience. There are always plugs under the seats, IFE is modern and available on every seat. Also the way they handle seat service is much more convenient, you order and pay through the IFE console instead of having to wait for the cart to come around and as such you have complete service all the way though the flight.

Even on domestic flights in Europe they are a pretty reasonable experience, much better than Ryanair and Easyjet at least. They are often priced about 10-20% more expensive than Ryanair and Easyjet when you probably get double the comfort and service and half the annoyances. I might sound like a shill for Norwegian but I think they really fill the Southwest niche here - a decently low cost (but not lowest) airline that doesn’t treat you or it’s employees like shit.

That’s not to say they are without flaws either. I and others have had some sketchy times where Norwegian has fought awarding the EU mandated reimbursement for delayed/cancelled flights. But no other international airline in Europe straddles the line between legacy carrier level of service and barebones low-cost as well as Norwegian.
We have "prima facie evidentiary" laws in India too. The law the parent is talking about has nothing to do with it. FIR is registered irrespective of whether there is a case made out prima facie or not. That is the biggest problem with this law. It turns the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" over its head.
Some colleagues of mine were having ram issues:

Running slack, rstudio, atom and a browser was almost maxing out an 8gb machine.

Why does an IM client need over a gig of ram?
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absolutely agree with you, if that. Support times seem to be getting worse as we have more overall system changes these days (or just bigger OSs?)
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> Now it seems to be primary and the education stuff is, um, not even mentioned anymore?

Except at the very top of the website?
> Adopting HK citizens is a far easier sell than Syrians. They already speak English

No they don't. According to the Hong Kong government's 2011 census only 41% of residents spoke English moderately well (not even fluently, just moderately well). 20% reported not being able to speak any English whatsoever; not even a few sentences.

Only 57% of residents of Hong Kong considered themselves "bilingual".

Only 30% of students attended an EMI school (English as a Medium of Instruction).

And I doubt the numbers have become more favorable to English in the decade since that census.
I was reminded that Amiga was bought by Gateway which sounds crazy but it was 1999, that was wackyland times
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From the README:

> Google News used to have an API but it was deprecated many years ago. (Unofficial) information about RSS syntax is decentralized over the web. There is no official documentation. So, I tried my best to collect all this informaion in one place.

I was confirming that: the code I linked to is exactly the documentation I need to make use of their feeds - whether or not I use the actual library itself.

(I tend to skip libraries like this in favor of making direct calls to the underlying APIs - just a personal habit of mine)
While the reasoning resonates with me, it does have undertones of whataboutism in it: Do I really expect CPC-historians to label colonial era contracts to be legitimate?

Anyways, Singapore's independence wasn't a given either, they had to fight for theirs from "the mother land" as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_in_Malaysia

Edit: I stand corrected - Not "to fight". However, the point being (as with Belize, Israel, India or other colonies which became independent) by no means was it clear what entities were to became out of its former colonies.
I think it's like Arduino. If you're not well versed into the world of embedded boards it can be tricky to navigate all the offerings. RPi is popular, massively well supported, you can find tons of projects online using it for almost anything, it seems like the safe choice.

I mean, I have the strong suspicion that the vast majority of RPi owners wouldn't be able to cite the name of a single alternative. Not a one. RPi's popularity eclipsed everything else (like Arduino in its heyday).

And even in your comment you haven't mentioned any alternative yourself, only that they exist. If you care about people using alternatives you should start with that. Actually, I should too, but the only Embedded Linux boards with a PCIe interface I've used are super expensive FPGA-based ones, so not really in the same category.
While a PhD is short for a Doctor of Philosophy, at universities such as Princeton or Stanford the title "Dr." is reserved for medical doctors. At less secure schools one sees the title imposed by administrators. It's a wonderful poker tell; you'd think people would be aware what they're signalling? Or they know, but we're not their intended audience.

In Germany, "Herr Professor Doktor" is often in jest, as one usually restricts to the highest ranking title. And titles are fading, a form of class-consciousness. To use "Doktor" unnecessarily reveals one is not a Professor.

So I don't understand the cultural context for this author's use of "Dr." It's welded to his web site dr-axel.de; perhaps this is a stage name like "Dr. Ruth".
Are quantum computing startups bullshit?
Yes, those are better examples.
yep - probably a few ways to do things and I might not be doing the cleanest, just the way I learned/figgured it out
> threads that I've read on this website

I strongly recommend not getting your 737-MAX facts from HN. Every time the topic comes up, the discussion continues to be riddled with inaccuracies, many of them strongly held beliefs.
Back when I was an SRE at google for their web crawler, I thought they should de-index pinterest (did not get any traction with this). I still think they should de-index pinterest. I add "-site:pinterest.*" to all my image searches.
I see your point from a merchant perspective. A thought: Why don't merchants in high-risk categories such as porn, gambling, etc. use debit transactions instead? Where they wait for funds to be transferred into their account and settled before providing goods and services.
It’s because without the voice of reason to help balance things out, there would be a strong misleading conception that everything about being a developer on Apple’s platforms is 100 percent negative, but this is certainly far from the truth. There are pros and cons, I don’t think it’s necessarily better or worse than developing on other platforms. The advantages outweigh the negatives much of the time.
They make rugged electric wheelchairs that sit on cat tracks. Would like to hear the pros/cons of this vs that?
I doubt Turkey is a large enough market to successfully string arm the American companies into playing along; the question is if they can block places like Twitter and develop their own successfully locally.
He’s not commenting on load times of software as far as I understand. He’s commenting about UI responsiveness.
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Agreed. Deposits signal intent to both Tesla and the capital markets they rely on, but you have to treat the customer relationship with respect to not poison the well.
a very nice interview (in Italian) published last May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgT6rXytKds

Towards the end he anticipates what is now public.
Yes, Turkey's economy was ok but how is its GDP per capita, democratic index, wealth inequality, human and minority rights like?

There's a reason EU countries have huge numbers of Turkish expats already despite Turkey's economy.
Replace Bramhins with any other identifier (GenX, Californians, British) and you will understand why it happened. It's not about flaunting the caste, but a term to identify the group from other groups. From your own example it shows the groups had different people who approached things differently. Not every mention of caste is about caste discrimination.
Super interesting. A lot of people feel the same way. Why do you think you weren't able to get any traction for this?
Building a MVP at $0. Possible?
We are a few weeks away from launching our MVP (themellow.work) and so far we've spent only $10

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At least in America, evangelicalism and its voting bloc has been soundly contributing to the polarization of the country. Additionally, evangelicalism and its voting bloc are extremely politically active on matters such as abortion. (Catholicism has also been increasingly buying up hospitals and then denying women birth control and other reproductive-oriented resolutions like uterus and ovary removal to resolve healthcare conditions.)
The drivetrain and steering assembly have definitely been designed to make it cheaper to build and easier to maintain which I think is a good thing. I wonder how much more expensive and complicated it becomes to have 4WD.
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68% of conservative voters, 71% of labour voters, and 77% of libdem voters support this.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/0...
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