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> I didn't see any animosity from JK Rowling or Navratilova towards trans-people

Just to educate you on the subject, since you don't seem very plugged in: What Rowling did was effectively deny that trans women are "women"[1]. To a demographic that is defined in terms of personal identity, that's offensive on its face. It's "hate", in the simplest form of the word. Compare "Negro facilities are separate but equal", etc...

Now, obviously you don't see it that way, nor does Rowling. But if you want to make pontifications on internet culture you need to understand where the offense comes from.

[1] It's also notable that she was asymmetric about this and did not apply the same logic to trans men. She's part of an identifiable group of women who view the trans issue as a dilution of traditional feminism, which is why the "TERF" label got invented. It's not a label of hate, like "Antifa".
wow, it's almost like people are more important than property.
You ask a lot of questions for which the answer may very well be “no”.
> It's easy to miss that there was a lot of truly great art wrapped up with what we were taught was kitsch, camp, and schmaltz.

I had a similar revelation seeing Don Rickles perform about 12 years ago. I went to see Rickles with a friend, but my primary motivation was to feel superior by basking in the kitsch of a dinosaur comedian from my parents' generation.

What I ended up seeing was a remarkably talented man who could sing, dance (in his 80s!), tell a joke, and hold the audience in the palm of his hand.

* edit: I also love this song by Morricone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54OHh8lib0
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It's nice to read about you on the internet from time to time!
- Lisardo
Heckler's Veto[0] in another form but the results are the same, silence differing opinion but now you have an excuse to commit violence against those who hold it or have others act on your behalf; this can include using government or employers.

A very dangerous period we are entering when honest open debate is framed as anything such. We are walking right into it and worse many are find excuses for specific discussion points as warranting this behavior not fully understanding that once that genie is out of the bottle it may take a generation or more to put it back.

The worst of it is that it is happening in newsrooms where groups want stories written specific ways and certain opinions must be silenced at all cost.

This "moral majority" will go far beyond what many fear mongers thought a "religious right" could ever do because they do not inherent limits to the exercise of their authority or violence needed to administer it.

You pretty much are bound for an authoritarian regime because democracy does not survive in silence. Will we have our own Reichstag fire[1], what form would it take?

Pretty sure you can find quite a few examples

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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That was the price for fresh, not frozen, and they're not small. Smaller than the large £20 pizza from the chain, sure, but not necessarily smaller than the £10-15 one.

The link is talking about a $11 pizza, that was briefly on sale for $5 (and still making a profit). It's not a $5 pizza.
> I've disliked Brave from the beginning.

As have I. The entire money making scheme behind it, while innovative, is a privacy nightmare.

> Seriously, if you want a browser that gives you control over your data and privacy, use Firefox. It doesn't do any of this shady nonsense.

Agreed, with the caveat that Firefox does have its own, completely different privacy issues[1][2]. Still, it's probably the best choice for a mainstream browser, and there are open source scripts out there[3] to plug up Firefox's few leaks. I used to use (and recommend) Waterfox as a more secure, private alternative to Firefox, but lately Firefox with Shawn's or a similar script applied is just as good. It's generally better to get FF from your operating system's repository and keep it updated that way rather than manually installing a fork.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield?as=u&utm_source=...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report

[3] https://github.com/shawnanastasio/firefox-privacy-restorer
If you consistently have 1500 LOC PRs you are really doing PRs wrong. Our median PR is 150 LOC, altough we do rarely (a couple of times a year) have "jumbo" PRs of 1K-2K LOC, but making better individual commits is not going to help with understanding those. Those are the PRs that have extensive documentation and design consideration in the PR description.
Either someone who's not comfortable with your comment or you forgot to link to a source.
That's not "appropriation", that's just marketing. You can call that "appropriation" if you want but it really just dilutes the very concept you're trying to invoke.
They definitely should be—that’s what the author is claiming is mandated, and it would make sense. However, I’m a bit skeptical about browsers being able to enforce that timeline here.

Also, given that the underlying cause appears to be ignorance, it would be prudent to take things slow and ensure that this doesn’t happen again. As I said before, the damage is already done—revoking appears to be insufficient here.

If this does actually happen within 7 days, though, I will be thoroughly impressed.
DNS providers should be your HTTPS providers though. Presumably the certs your browser would have to "just know" would be for the root TLDs, so you could verify with them what DNS provider a given domain was entrusted to, and then query that DNS provider whether or not your domain's certificate was legitimate.

The idea that any CA can issue a valid cert for any domain is the heart of what's wrong with PKI.
No, but my comment is in reference to those posts. But what makes this one especially egregious is that Reason has not pretenses about being an objective new source.

The first line of their about page is: "Founded in 1968, Reason is the nation's leading libertarian magazine."
If you want to find bugs in your code that arise from assumptions about machine architecture, you can use emulators. You don't need an ancient MIPS machine for that, unless you want to find bugs on code that supports long obsolete hardware. And you can emulate architectures far weirder than MIPS with that.

And you should test on slow and unreliable hardware. You'd be surprised, for instance, how frequently servers fail to boot because the BMC ignored your instructions.
"Any type of value as key" is quite misleading since anything other than primitive types (number, bool, string) is compared by reference. Observe:

> const m = new Map();
undefined
> m.set([1], "one");
Map(1) {Array(1) => "one"}
>m.get([1])
undefined

C++ and Rust don't stand for this nonsense. You can't even define a custom hashing function, which means if you want a useful map for anything other than numbers and strings you have to write a wrapper around `Map` that hashes the objects to numbers or strings, and then you're more or less back to raw objects.

It's definitely better than raw objects because it doesn't mix up data and methods, but it's not much better.
Huh? Python async has been in the lead for quite a while now. The only thing it doesn’t have is anonymous inline function syntax.
Google Keep

It's simple, searchable and synchronised across devices. Recipes are a simple, text-based format. I don't need any fancy way to store them.
> insisting that both parties honor legally binding contracts is violence;

I'm generally a pretty big believer in upholding the law and contracts but a lot of people have been put out of work through no fault of their own, and rather unwillingly. The government did that and I think it makes sense for the government to enforce at least a temporary moratorium on evictions so that things can be done in an orderly fashion.
> which I see you're excited to engage in yourself!

There is nothing in my comment that indicates that I'm looking to engage in a "political slapfight" - that's entirely your deal.
How Devastating Is the Soviet Ekranoplan?
The Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union produced an inventory of grotesque and somewhat devastating weapons. Their attempts to put on the scarier face prompted them to come up with technologies that would make Ian Fleming’s character proud. We have seen it all, from armed space stations, Mach 3 jets, nuclear subs, and even man-made UFO. Nuclear weapons were not the only concern here, but the emergence of this apocalyptic machines of malice coming from both sides. Most of the technologies developed during the Cold War have lasting impacts on modern-day weapons. But there are those curious inventions that were destined to stay in the confines of hangars, warehouse or any forms of storage that captured the imaginations of many.

And one of them is the strange maritime vehicle that rattled the U.S. upon its discovery—the ekranoplan.

At first glance, people are not sure what it is. The thing has wings that seem too short for its massive frame. It could fly, or at least that’s what people call it even though it could only do so at a few meters from the water's surface. And judging the overall shape and outside appearance, it’s an aircraft, but used as a ship. A terrifying ship!

Meet the ekranoplan: arguably the strangest vehicle that came out from the Soviet assembly line.
Not convenient to test it on such atm. I may get back to it later, but for now, I'm getting back to work.
For at least some who want to live in a city and are WFH full-time, it will make more sense to rent a co-working space than to move to a bigger apartment with a dedicated office.
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Exactly. When I read,

"two main arguments: damaging a person is morally more serious than damaging an object, and psychologically damaging a person is worse than physically damaging an object."

I couldn't help but think "Yes? That's exactly correct. Who would ever think otherwise?"
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Highly recommend reading this 1:1 meeting template to get a good idea of how to listen to employees: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R4j84c7gHRn1Q3xmwg5h18La...

I've also really enjoyed Jason Fried's talks and writings about managing employees.
I'm worried about this 'silence is violence' meme. Its seems a thinly disguised 'if you aren't for us, you're against us' which is fairly infantile thinking.

I know its intended to incite action, which is certainly overdue. But it has its downside too, mainly that it alienates folks.
In response to this post, I wrote "Dlang for JavaScript Developers." Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23747652
Right! If X is your value prop you unit test the shit out of X. And patch bugs in X quickly.

Here X=Privacy so, where are the unit tests and patch? Faster now that it's Top on HN.
DND wouldn't move into the old Nortel campus because of security risks: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-for...
That sounds exactly right based on my recollection.
A good old fashioned "corporate re-structuring" will also suffice for #4. While you are at it, cut pay by some percentage that just barely keeps the workers at their job and force budget cuts that systematically strip people of the tools that they need to do their work.
> The big debate is whether this is due to luck or skill, whether it's possible to tell the difference and whether it's possible to determine which fund manager will be successful in the future.

And the other factor is this: if it is skill, do the high-fees still give you a better risk-adjusted return?
Europe’s Failure to Tame Google’s Dominance Is a Lesson for U.S.
> I have no numbers, but I suspect that once the initial download is done and cached, Python code should be smaller than JS equivalent

You have to download 750 kB of Python interpreter. No way the terseness of Python can make up for that unless you have so much code you definitely shouldn't be using Python. Plus how do you minify Python? All those spaces...
For most people I suspect they come out on top even with the extra expense of needing a decent internet connection and some office space. Commuting (particularly into London, which is what I'm most familiar with) is expensive - I'm a 1.5 hour train ride out from London, and an annual season ticket costs £6,000-£7,000 per year, depending on the route and whether I want a travelcard for London as well.
I have no interest in engaging myself, but I encourage you to reread the last line of your comment and consider how it comes across to people who don't agree with your perspective.
Oof yes, that's correct. The manual is dated 12 June 1972, which seems to be the release date.
Between Docker, Figma, and others, there's absolutely no reason for this.
Is it stupid to equate a replacing the word "sex" with "gender identity" with being punched in the face? Yes.

Is it stupid to equate police brutality with riots destroying corporate property? Also yes, though maybe arguably less so.

I don't think this is anything new though, I remember being in debates with libertarians 10-15 years ago who argued that tax is violence. If you want to get philosophical about it, anything that carries any intent or threat to harm if there's non-compliance can be violence, but at that point it becomes kind of a useless word.
Ask them what they enjoy about their job and what they don’t.
>Scrounging up a down payment when even a 2 bedroom apartment is $1-$1.5 million is not the easiest task.

This is why I don't live in the Bay Area, and have no plans to. I was casually surfing Trulia, and found new construction in my area starting at $170k for a 3 bed/2 bathroom. The idea of paying that much for an apartment(!) is simply foreign to me.
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I mean, honestly, they're nothing particularly new or noteworthy; they're a collection of progressive ideas you've probably heard a lot, starting with universal basic income and single-payer universal health care.

As far as fixing our corporate culture, I think making judicious but expressive use of the corporate death penalty, combined with aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws, using a much broader metric of harm than has been used in the past few decades, would be a good start.

I also think that a true universal basic income—one that would allow someone with no other source of income to live safely, if not luxuriously, in most parts of the country—would slowly but surely start having huge effects on nearly every aspect of work, as removing the constant fear of homelessness and death from poverty made the "labour market" much more like a genuine free market. I can only begin to imagine the shifts in our society that that would result in, and it's really hard to say just what other measures would be rendered unnecessary by them.
drones, maybe
Enable 'show dead' and review these.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fee.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mises.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theatlantic.com

Overall this site's moderation is hostile to free-market views. The goal is "promoting intellectual curiosity", as long as the goal posts are positioned according to the prevailing biases.
You may not think that input validation at the boundary has a cost, but the fact is that the "typical" Ruby on Rails application is happy to just pass controller params along to the model layer unchanged and unvalidated (there is a security layer that allows you to whitelist which parameters you want to forward, but nothing more than that). Validation is supposed to happen in the model layer. I think this is horrible design, but it's unfortunately a strong convention and breaking conventions also has associated costs. By contrast, if you write your application in e.g. Spring Boot you typically have validation at the controller level built in, so yes, in that case, it's easy to do the right thing.

I think you're right that it may not be necessary to extract "calculate_vat" into another class. It just really depends: if the VAT code is so complex that it should be properly unit tested, I think it deserves its own class. If it's fairly straightforward and only used inside of a single other price calculation class, then yeah, it can remain a private method or so.

But I don't think this is a question of whether to abstract or not, rather about what the right level of cohesion and coupling is for a given situation.
I'm Canadian so I only have EWB contacts here.

I'll reach out to you on Twitter
>Apple's laptops, while incredibly expensive and profitable, can effectively be considered loss-leaders.

Things that are incredibly profitable are by definition not loss leaders.

>Even with high retail price, margins are low.

Is this true? Being as how one can purchase a similarly spec'd laptop for a fraction of the cost of a MBP makes me skeptical. I'd assume they're killing it on their laptops.
I remember Fields of Nephilim - listened to them again recently & they actually hold up pretty well. Psychonaut is a good one..
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That "single individual on a mailing list" is Ryan Sleevi, who is basically the voice of Google in all matters to do with TLS PKI, and as I understand it is not working with a "opinions my own" cop-out in this context. It's not some rando
> Make sure all managers are spineless and won’t fight for their employees.

> If somebody notices that the checkout page crashes every time someone uses PayPal, just ignore it.

Oh my god. So much these - especially the combination of the two. It's not hard to identify with the customer when building a service (especially if you use the product yourself.) It really angers me when I encounter a customer-facing problem, try to fix it, but instead I get shut down by my manager, who explains that it's not one of the company's OKRs this quarter.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=browser%20ch...
Can you comment on the unsolved zodiac 340 cipher? I'd be willing to try to crack it with time and effort but I'm not sure where to start.

Reference:
http://zodiackillerciphers.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:340...
They appear to be tools used by their inventor, a marketing consultant, to sell copies of his book. Whether they have value beyond that I don't really care to pay to find out.
How to write devilishly good copy for landing pages? Here's a good template
This is something I never even considered but I love the idea of leaning more on my Kindle Paperwhite and less on my iPad. Going to give it a shot!
> Management in the UK by and large sucks.

I don't necessarily disagree but I have to say that it's miles worse in Spain.

I might've been lucky but I've only had a bad boss and even he treated me far better than the best bosses some of my friends in Spain had treated them, so clearly YMMV. (obviously anecdotal evidence)
It actually makes a lot of sense when you think about. Sure, you may be interested in buying fishing gear, but not while reading an article about Tour De France.

One of the reasons Google have been able to make a ton of money on ads on google.com is because they are able to deliver contextual ads based on you search. Google isn't using targeted ads on google.com. Think about that for a second. The worlds most visited site and largest ad company is NOT displaying ads based on tracking users on their own main site. They are showing you contextual ads.

Search for "cement" on Google, you're not getting ads for the washing machine you looked at on another site yesterday. Google most likely have the data to target you and show you washing machine ads, but they choose to show you an ad relevant to your search.

Are we really surprised that contextual ads might generate more revenue?
For existing companies like Mozilla where we are mostly remote anyway, the company already reimburses home internet and office equipment like chairs and monitors and desks.

Also, Mozilla will reimburse space in the form of a coworking lease in the worker's city. (Edit: Who knows if this will continue after Coronavirus) I don't think there's any kind of benefit for the costs incurred by the increased use of home space, but I do think there should be.

Mozilla did an ergonomic inspection on my workspace at my request when I still worked in an office. I haven't had one on my home office, but I do agree that companies should pay for ergonomic assessments of home offices.

I do agree that as more traditional companies switch over, they may not be so generous with their reimbursement since one of the biggest benefits for them is cost reduction. They can silently move all the costs of working space onto employees. And I do think this will result in people seeking larger living spaces in general as well, unfortunately for energy efficiency.
So you're saying that you think that some property is more important than murders of innocent people by police that have been going on for decades?

If that's not what you're saying, you should make yourself clear. Because you imply that you don't agree with my perspective, which I think is pretty straightforward and clear - people are more important than property.
Simply filling the disk by any means runs the risk of your incriminating (or whatever) information being retained in a sector that got remapped out from under you that you can no longer write to.

Wiping the encryption key takes care of that problem, as well as being much faster.
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I would argue that anything that becomes sufficiently popular enough to be lucrative beyond some arbitrary threshold becomes toxic. Welcome to the cycle of capitalism!
From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ecstasy_of_Gold

"American metal band Metallica has used "The Ecstasy of Gold" as the introductory music for its concerts since 1984."
OP has a point. The NY Times recently began a process of shedding their ideals of objectivity too. They claim the views and inclinations of whiteness are accepted as the objective neutral.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/objectivity-black...
> tie their bonus to hitting some kind of OKR even though that goal may be put on the back burner halfway into the quarter

Been burned by this a couple times. Especially infuriating after all the effort that goes into crafting "acceptable" OKRs every three months. Mandatory training sessions, the stress of identifying metrics that are both measurable & meaningful, multiple one-on-ones with management to review them, acknowledging and signing copies, and then toss it all in the trash because we're changing priorities. But it's the core of your performance review and tied to compensation. The hell.

How common is this nonsense?
It was supposed to be a "proof of stake" originally I suppose, if a company was caught doing shady thing it would lose its CA status so they're incentivized not to do so. Sort of like internet notaries.

That might have worked decently in the early internet but it does seem seriously flawed with the current stakes.

That being said, what's the alternative? TOFU? Web of Trust? Those have massive security implications as well. They have the advantage of putting the user back in control but given that the vast majority of the people using the web today doesn't have a deep understanding of the underlying technology and security model I don't see how this wouldn't end up in a massive catastrophe.

It's a tough problem to solve.
They are an adtech company. That should be all we need to know, right? I'm willing to change my mind, so far it doesn't make sense to use Brave.
No,this is a universal concept. Night vs day, dark vs light. A strong light is associated with the color white, if you grew up in a Christian culture then you should know the Bible does speak a lot against judging people by appearances.

I am not on a high horse, but you picked a belief out of nowhere as if it was particularly significant to the topic, so boogeyman seemed an appropriate characterization.