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RT what you’d upvote, quote URL for what you’d downvote, reply if there’s something to be said, and just keep posting ideas and arts in general(and don’t repost)

Quitting it is arguably better tho
Geopolitically I agree that there's little justification for China to invade Taiwan. But AFAIU there's a very strong cultural mentality, especially among senior military leadership, that is absolutely obsessed with Taiwan. The fact that the annexation of Taiwan provides almost no substantive benefits whatsoever is presumably all that holds them back, given the slight risk of a U.S. response. Growing Taiwanese industrial prowess and the benefits that inure to the U.S., such as with TSMC, upsets the precarious balance by making Chinese control of Taiwan strategically more important.

It's the same thing with South Korea. The U.S. would likely agree to leave the Korean peninsula in a heartbeat if China agreed to regime change in North Korea, even if it was kept as a buffer state. Geopolitically it would be better for everybody involved. But senior Chinese military leadership feels honor bound as the protector of the North Korean regime, which also stands as living evidence of Chinese military superiority over the U.S. And so China defends the most egregious behaviors of North Korea, even when they openly defy China on the international stage, and even when North Korean policies cause domestic trouble in China.

A comparable mentality in the U.S. might be that regarding Cuba--completely and utterly irrational, driven by an antiquated historical narrative and unjustifiable sentiments. In some respects an even better example might be Israel, but it's exactly because it's an apt comparison that I can't actually make it--there's little room for nuance and too little good faith allowance in the domestic discourse.
I've never made a Twitter or Facebook account. Many people pressured me over the years and even one company tried to force me into a Facebook account, but later relented. Seeing what a dumpster fire they are today, I'm happy that I resisted making accounts.
This was exactly my thought when reading this, why do they have this information? Unless it's trivial information like next of kin or the sick days of employees, which really should not contain the search terms, why should Facebook have details of employees medical information or partners?
This is a pervasive perspective on HN. Everyone here is so erudite in their mindset, yet they can't observe that a trend of exponential wealth inequality ends with many people being crushed and a few undeserving winners.

The language "is in danger of breaking" is frankly dialed down because he is obviously self-conscious about sounding like some wild-eyed radical. The fact is, if this trend isn't checked, there certainly will be a violent break down, which is a corresponding trend that is also growing before our very eyes in the form of BLM protests and the corresponding government response.

Violence is not condoned in our society. Therefore, it follows that manifestations of violence are a form of breakage. If such manifestations erupt directly from power/wealth/legal disparities, I'd say Bray's language is a rather mild flavor of perfectly accurate.
Yeah I was thinking the same.. This is not a low stress time. I've not been so stressed (and depressed) for a long time.
“Published spying technique” – ironic
Hopefully they have all measures in place to prevent data to be tainted by C and C++ "features".
Are you saying it is wise to have a child if you are unemployed? I dont understand your point.
Me too! I was quite obsessed as a teenager. People don't believe me when I tell them that a lucid dream can be indistinguishable from reality. I think to most people, a dream is a fuzzy unrealistic thing.

While reading Richard Feynman's biography, I was struck by one of his descriptions of lucid dreaming, which I found very relatable:

"The next time I had a dream, there was a girl lying in tall grass, and she had red hair. I tried to see if I could see each hair. You know how there's a little area of color just where the sun is reflecting -- the diffraction effect, I could see that! I could see each hair as sharp as you want: perfect vision!"
They survived.
It seems you didn't read what you replied to. Suggest to read that comment again.
> punish women who stop working by not paying them maternity leave

How is that a punishment? You are not entitled to money that you did not earn.
Most developed countries have figured this out. Some set amount of parental leave can be used by the parents of the child with the government paying some percentage of their usual salary instead of the employer. In Sweden the parents get a total of 480 days paid at 80% of their salary.
This has already been solved in multiple countries. For instance here in Norway, the leave goes for both parents. There is something like 12 months that can be shared between the parents, and both have around a month of leave just at the birth.

Even asking about pregnancy/child plans in a interview is illegal.
Here in Spain it's almost impossible to see a doctor if you're not dropping dead.

If I try to book an appointment with my GP it tells me I can't, they only do over the phone consultancies unless it's an emergency.

So at least here it's not even reluctance but rather the lack of possibility to see a doctor.
I love Twitter, it is my favorite social network and I get tremendous value out of it.

For me the keys were:

- Be fast to follow and unfollow accounts. It's hard to build a valuable feed, and requires a lot of experimentation. Some accounts I felt sure would be valuable are not (for example, info security researchers who only tweet complaints about travel rewards programs). And some accounts that seemed marginal turned out to be great, like some socialist/leftists who are also hilarious.

- Don't write tweets. Seriously, unless you are really trying to build a personal brand, there's no reason to tweet. Same with retweets.

- Remember any tweet you enjoyed and might want to see again. You can do this with the "like" button, or by bookmarking.

- Block or force-unfollow anyone following you, who you don't like. A force-unfollow is done by blocking and then immediately unblocking that account. Doing this silently knocks them off your follower list.

- Ultimately I made my account private to make it easier to focus on reading.
those geniuses broadcast computer programs via airwaves during a radio show. listeners would record it on cassette and play the program on computer. anybody else did that ?
Simple, company emails. People use work emails for all sort of crap, intentionally or not.
The supposed defect of the Remington 700 trigger is not nearly clear cut as it's portrayed. The supposed failures often could not be replicated, and many were found to have had their triggers adjusted out of normal tolerances or otherwise modified. As far as I know, an unmodified Remington 700 trigger has not been demonstrated to fire without actuating the trigger.

People often allege malfunction and sue gun manufacturers for accidental discharges resulting in death or injury, when in reality they mishandled a loaded gun and pulled the trigger.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Oh! not an admonishment, just for others. Sometimes dang comes along and fixes titles.
> Yes, but for every person I tell that they had a data breach causing them to phish their customers through calendar

The number of times I've managed to convince someone not to use a service because of data breaches or poor security settings is precisely 0.

If people are OK with banks and retirement accounts that follow poor security standards, they won't really care about Dell.
I am really looking for an answer to this. I promise to incorporate the best answer arriving out of our discussion in my site flixcatalog.com. I don't think the existing filter on imdb scores makes sense.
You can use Twitter completely fine without ever paying any attention to "Trending" or things like that. For many, it probably makes the experience better not to do so. (other recommendation: Twitter lets you mute specific people and phrases. make liberal use of that).

(semi-OT: I'm also surprised how those screenshots are paraded around as "aha! caught them!". Did anyone seriously think there wasn't any moderation of trends etc going on before?)
Electrics have less brake wear and probably more tire wear due to weight increases.
> but now other nations are in a position to pay their engineers more than U.S. companies.

No. Please write 1 country.
While I agree that this number is a catastrophe no matter how you look at it, it's unlikely 100% of those people would become homeless.

Some would find (more expensive) shorter-term rentals, others would move in with relatives, and a small percentage would find a landlord willing to sign a new lease with them.
Even internally this bug is not prioritized. In their defense, it's not clear what the behaviour should be. Against them, there are options that, while not perfect, are better than the status quo, even if the user must manually set them.
I loved my F91W when I was in school. I recently bought one again just because it was so dirt cheap! It's an excellent watch. Does everything you expect a watch to do, and does it well.
I believe that the Spark parquet library is available to be used in plain old Java: https://www.arm64.ca/post/reading-parquet-files-java/
They still did not add support for a secure hash it seems.
Why are absolute numbers at all important? Why would a population with half as many people have more high paying jobs?
There are some differences between a Stradivarius and a 30$ violin sold by Amazon, even though the 30$ violin also makes noise.
Tried ES2020 yet? They are solid
This is an awesome comment, thank you!

I had no idea of this new "monobloc" trend, but I feel like you're on to something. When I wear, say, my Longines Diver and I look at my wrist, I feel that my watch is communicating: it's an intricate, hand-built machine telling me the time. I need to wind it and breathe new life into it. I get complimented on it: "new watch?" or "nice watch, what is it?" It's an accessory. A deliberate choice.

When I look down at my F-91W, it's as if it's not even there. I'm the one telling the time. Everyone ignores it, no one mentions it, no one brings it up: it's there but it's not. Just like a monobloc chair or a #2 pencil.
Or feet and inches. I've been watching videos online of people making things with the added challenge of using imperial measurements. 7 29/32 less a margin of 5 3/8 plus a 1/16 offset... Is metric too easy for Americans?
They didn't do a real stress analysis on those aqueducts, for instance.

The Romans tested bridges by having the engineers stand under while a legion marched over.
Presumably they were cheating on their bride with a buyer...
Thank you for verbalizing what I am unable to.

I personally believe that there need to be large changes across the structure of gov, but to the direction of less, and not more.

I have not followed the protests in Portland in depth, just enough to know that in at least portions (block? blocks?) the fed has completely reignited brutality in response to protests. Is there more info you have to available to share, or a good place to find unbiased info? I lurk Reddit, but that is very biased in either direction at any given thread.
Oh that reminds me of a funny story. I used to work for a company that sold various software and one month after their purchase, they'd get an email asking if they would like to review the product. If they ignored that, after another month they'd get one more email asking if they would like to review the product (after that they'd get no more emails).

Well I was going through and approving the reviews (just for stopping spam reviews), and I found a guy leaving a review explaining that he's very sorry but he hasn't had time to use the product as his wife has come down with a bad case of the shingles - I seem to remember he went into quite a lot of detail and obviously hadn't realised this review could have been made public.
You can also check the quality in your neighbourhood at the luftdaten website. Many people have sensors already wired up! It's originally a German project but now there's many sensors worldwide.

https://deutschland.maps.sensor.community/#2/50.1/49.7

I use this to measure the outside PM2.5 and PM10 which did indeed drop a lot during the lockdown. Inside I have a Xiaomi air purifier which also measures PM2.5. Everything's wired up to home assistant.

I don't see many issues indoor, it never really exceeds 10, even when I'm cooking or vacuuming (though the kitchen is on the other side of the house). I thought it wasn't working right, in fact, but then one time there was a small fire outside in a bin. I just smelled it a bit in the house, there was no visible smoke, but the purifier went right up to 200 (and beyond) in seconds :)

But I can recommend getting a purifier, it does really help. I have bad hayfever and when I have the thing off for a day I really feel it (during the hayfever season of course).
There's lots of evidence from fitness tracker companies that most people (who use fitness trackers at least) are indeed less stressed.
Same for me. I rate it among the top 5 experiences of my life. And I have been traveling the world doing all kinds of adventure sports for many years.
Twitter trends are manipulated. Do not take them seriously. They're a tool of social engineering.
Study finds 76% of patients infected with Covid-19 show lasting cardiac injuries
Well, that's an old topic in my opinion. But they are definitely worth taking a look. Good article!
Thanks and that's awesome, enjoy your collection!
Types in Haskell are generally used to describe the structure of the data. Defining a type in Haskell is like writing documentation and a test all in one. I can mentally offload certain concerns to the compiler, which will tell me whether or not the shape of the data in my head matches the code I'm writing. I pretty frequently use the compiler to guide my development, especially with a tool ghcid, which gives instantaneous feedback as I'm programming. It's also like a million times easier to refactor, I tweak a type signature and the compiler will basically give me a list of things I need to update. No need to hunt for and test every instance of that kind of input, the compiler just tells me where it is, and what is wrong.

You also don't have to write out type signatures 99.9% of the time after declaring a type, the compiler can infer them. People in the Haskell community tend to write out signatures for functions because it makes it easier to understand, but it's pretty rare to see a type signature in the body of a function.

That's not to say thinking in Haskell is always as natural or more natural than Python, but I'd argue that immutability and laziness more than types can require a lot more mental effort that can feel like fitting square pegs into round holes for certain problems. When it comes to types (at least Haskell vs. Python), I'd say it's much more a matter of personal taste.
I'm not in a position to say that no better way is possible, but all ways of defining economic aggregates run up against conceptual problems when you try to apply them to an actual economy, the most intractable of which is how to assign a single number to a changing mix of heterogeneous goods. The difficulties with defining "inflation" when the basket of consumer goods changes every period is well known, but you have similar difficulties with defining production if you change your inputs -- of which outsourcing is a special case.

In most situations you end up using price as an aggregator, even if the price is itself normalized by a scaling factor. That means if you shut down a factory today and have your goods produced cheaply overseas except for a few small finishing steps here, it will be the relative prices of the inputs that determine how much of the good was produced here versus how much was produced overseas, and this wont generally reflect the "real" amount produced here versus overseas as viewed by a layman. In fact, if a producer couldn't outsource cheaply, they probably wouldn't do it, so there will be a consistent gap in terms of what the laymen sees and what the BEA data will show. And note this also creates the appearance of a productivity boost. Imagine Apple firing all their manufacturing employees and employing only a few designers. Now, they can produce a lot of value with only a few cost inputs, hence productivity just went up. Of course, the designers may not be more productive in terms of creating more designs or better designs, but as Apple is able to capture a large share of the total value, then it will be attributed to the super productivity of the designers, which may have more to do with politics in East Asia choosing an export led growth model than anything to do with the iPhone.

And it gets more complicated because the NIPA system doesn't take into account the possibility of economic rents. E.g. going back to the Apple example, if Apple can charge $1000 for the phone, with only $300 of inputs, then this $700 worth of "value added" must be attributable to some portion of labor and capital. If the designers are paid $200 then capital is paid $500. In NIPA parlance, that means $500 worth of capital investment (and or depreciation) must have occurred somewhere in the economy, which again to the layman would require unrealistic measurements of investment. There is no NIPA notion of someone overpaying. And then don't get me started on how corporate shell companies headquartered in tax shelters like the Bahamas or Ireland screw with GDP numbers, especially of the smaller nations that serve as tax shelters, but also with US productivity and investment data.
Kids are at home due to the pandemic,
If they were running around at your office it would have been the same
Great!

Should be working again now. Keep trying ;D
Because an export economy is able to generate high-paying jobs regardless of the population growth.
We all do the same thing. Our calculators work in binary, and we only do i/o in decimal. Their calculators (slaves who pushed pebbles, calculi, around) worked in a decimal place-value system (or used egyptian/russian peasant multiplication), and only the i/o was done in roman numerals.
I am getting a dejavu from this thread.

Arguments used to justify twitter always rely on certain users of the platform. I am not sure how that makes twitter good as a platform. By staying on the platform, you are forcing other developers and people to use it to announce their projects and keep you up-to-date aka networks effect.
> They are right that legislators / the antitrust entity has no right to this information, but the best way to achieve that is if they didn't have it in the first place.

But they do have a right to it by way of enforcing compliance with existing regulation. That's why Facebook isn't daring to outright refuse the requests. It's hoping by some wishful thinking that a decision will come back restricting the Commission on the basis of rights violations. It's a 50/50 bet that could either ease Facebook's burden on GDPR, or worsen it.

Honestly, I hope it worsens it. SV Tech, especially social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, have caused a lot more trouble now than they have created benefit. Back in the days of MySpace, it was a "hip" thing to interact on social media. But as the capability to monetize social media shrunk, and Facebook and Twitter, among others, decided to go public with none of the diversity in their product portfolios that's kept public giants profitable for decades, they turned to pretty nefarious and reckless opportunism to keep investors happy.

Facebook has struck deals with South Asian wireless providers that have since come into serious trouble with governments who saw social media be used to aid anti-government agendas. I was co-sponsor on a deal with one of the largest providers, which was desperately trying to get out from under its agreement with Facebook, since it had effectively lost all the money it had earned from the partnership to fines, bans, and regulatory compliance in countries like Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. All of those governments have cracked down severely on social media being used to organize anti-government activity.

Facebook is not our friend. It's not here to protect us. It's not interested in serving our best interest. If it was, it wouldn't have entire teams of attention engineers. It wouldn't constrain our ability to receive direct support for issues on the platform to a set list of automated help articles. Facebook wouldn't have allowed political ads at all during an election cycle, because the integrity of the election was already in question over the volume of activity by US candidates and the impulsive nature of social media activity in response.

I'm all for turning Facebook upside down and flushing its head in the toilet. It's gotten a little too cool for its own good. It needs to be reminded that its still just another student in the same school of life everyone else has to attend. We can't afford to set aside skepticism because we're enamored with the glow of its success with adoption. I mean, COVID-19 has had an insanely good run at new adoption too.
Before even clicking through to the article I was thinking about Infinite Jest.

> As an author, I want to add more details which don’t fit in the main body of the text. Because I hate deleting text and my editor told me to take it out.

I joked about IJ doing that exact thing, that the editor was all “no, you can’t just list nonsensical film titles for four straight pages” and DFW said “watch this.”

Of course it’s us poor readers that pay the price having to use two bookmarks (or three, as some footnotes have footnotes). And there was plenty of this:

> the user is forced to break from the flow of reading

I’ve never had to reread so many passages. If you take it all in stride it’s quite fun, really. I found it humorous and chuckled each time I had to skip to the back, like I was privy to an inside joke.

The article does raise good points, and I’ve never used an e-reader. I bet it helps a ton, I imagine something like the pop up doc/diff/def viewers like in a modern source code editor. I imagine it would’ve taken away some of the fun from IJ, but of course that’s not a typical case.
Remington tried to pivot into the semi-auto handgun market with the R51. It’s a good design, but one that doesn’t mesh well with modern manufacturing techniques. They pumped a ton of money into getting it to market, and they just couldn’t make it profitable.
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yes. The same components, just better binned, marked "VP" - "Voennaya Priemka" ("Military Acceptance"). Like a consumer binned resistor could be 10-15% off the target, VP - no more than 5%. Our main source of electronic components were military electronic hardware dumps around our Navy base :)
Is this something Google actually did/does? It doesn't really fit with my experience of them.

Now, if the confirmation email contained this upsell in text or in schema.org metadata or whatever and Google pulled it over, that feels very much like something they would do.
Not at all true, there's been a ton of study on lucid dreams. Check out a summary of the research by Jennifer Windt: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dreaming
They are also pretty popular in the British army because they are, in many ways, the best watch available.

That said, they have a few limitations:

* The backlight is pretty weak

* The stopwatch tops out at 1 hour

* It needs batteries, as opposed to solar or kinetic charging (this is probably why the backlight is underpowered)

* It would be great if it had a compass.
> it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization. Japan, Germany and South Korea have avoided this.

Entire Central Europe (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary etc.) is filled with German manufacturing plants. The Germans have done plenty of deindustrialization themselves.
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