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Which is the best office furniture store in Brisbane?
Hi,
My name is Grayson Davis & live in Brisbane. I have opened a new small office in Brisbane & looking for the best & suitable furniture for it.

Please suggest me the best office furniture store, so I can make my office beautiful & attractive.

Thanks
“At a market cap of $755 billion (at point of writing) Facebook’s per user value is around $288. If Facebook is some leading indicator for the pinnacle of per user value for social media, then at $50 billion for the roughly 85 million American users, TikTok’s per user value would be $588.”

I think facebook would pay a hefty premium even above that; handing Microsoft a buzzing social media platform on a silver platter - with the weight of Microsoft's resources behind it. Surely Zuckerberg's nightmare manifest...and he has no real chance of trying to outbid - what with all the anti-trust press.
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Thank you jeff! Are you aware if the GTX and Arcanite support TRIM? That definitely makes a difference when considering OS storage.
TikTok threatens legal action against Trump US ban
Rayshard Relativity AMA
I have come up with a new theory of relativity after discovering the origin of Einstein's fallacy; the fallacy that gravity is an illusion, space and time are intertwined, and spacetime bends to ensure the speed of light remains constant.

I'm calling it Rayshard Relativity, in honor of Rayshard Brooks, the black lives matter movement, and all others who have suffered under the gap between the haves and the have nots for far too long. See [1] for the interview he gave before he was shot.

Here's the gist:

- Space is three dimensional

- Gravity is real

- Time is emergent

- Time dilation is predicted by electromagnetism

Turns out we didn't need Einstein's tensor math and field equations after all. All we needed were the basic laws of physics/electromagnetism and Doppler's discovery 1842.

I believe this theory will unlock quantum computing, quantum encryption, unlimited energy through perpetual fusion/fission, and much more.

There are also many predictions that can be ruled out, such as wormholes, singularities, and time travel.

It also tells us why black holes are black, and no it's not so blueberries can become blackberries like my clever 5 year old niece thinks :)

I wish to remain anonymous and will remain anonymous. I relish the ability to move anonymously through the streets over any amount of fortune or fame. I just want to make this theory public so others can verify it and we can start building a better world on top of it. A simpler, more resilient, and more compassionate world ruled directly by and for the people.

AMA

You have two hours before I go surf and I'll be gone the rest of the day.

Who's up first?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJQStSDYyjg (Rayshard Brooks, In His Own Words)

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FYI to disarm the semantic word-bombs that are mass and energy, I will use spirit and matter. Far easier to wrap your head around the theory when the words aren't overloaded with prior beliefs.
But how many people will check in detail what‘s submitted? And again, how do you prevent that different users get different functionality?
Google is still offering to host the sites though. They are just deciding to delete a bunch of them. And while they have a legal right to remove the sites, we can still hold them accountable for how they use that power.

Turning off a web server on its own isn't removing web history

When Google targets sites that are least likely to have a backup anywhere else, least likely to have active admins, least likely for an admin to notice an email notification in an old inbox, I'm pretty sure that's deleting web history.
Doesn't Tencent own interests in all of these game companies? Does mean that even things like Fortnite are illegal now?
There was a discussion in our IT Security department about how to install McAfee on CoreOS servers. (For the uninitiated, CoreOS is a Linux distribution that comes without a package manager. It's intended as a base to run containers on, so you would deploy all software via container images.)

I remember someone suggesting to put McAfee into a fully isolated container that only exposes the port where it reports compliance, allowing it to scan itself to death all day long.
Would that somehow be different, for 3 minutes, than being outside in sunlight for an hour? Are you maybe thinking of ultraviolet light?
> China would be in such a better position as global leader if it were open or democratic.

Certainly. And the CCP hinders that. But the point of my above comment is to illustrate that it's an open question whether China would be 'allowed' to be open and democratic.

I don't believe the West is actually concerned about CCP's human rights violations. They're simply concerned about China's rise as an economic and military power, we would not support the Saudi regime if human rights was a concern.

One of the major reasons the CCP got a foothold in China was because there was a sense that for over a century China was subservient to Western powers.

The CCP was fine as far as the west was concerned as long as it was primarily a dumb factory for us. But now they have ambitions to go beyond that.

I think that's the crux of the animosity towards China today, not human rights violations, as gross as they are.

I could imagine China being somewhat of an EU and democratic and as long as they buy enough western products, be left alone. But if they actually wanted a truly independent foreign policy for example, that would not fly. See the Iran Deal for how dependent EU foreign policy is on the U.S. one.

P.S. That does not mean the CCP is good. It's not. But pretending that western leaders actually care about its human rights abuses is silly.
>I'm starting to believe that we who just don't want a censored internet are the minority.

Condolences on your epiphany. Now you realize that common people are the problem, not the rulers who are just being opportunistic.
What is wrong with:

ls -l | grep '^d'
What's different about these files and those of tech platforms is that the information itself didn't matter. It was the system of government itself to maintain the impression that there were secret informants everywhere and there was no way of knowing who was or wasn't. The point was to instill terror for its own sake, and to politically paralyze individuals, or "atomize," people into inaction. The randomness and absurdity of the system was by design, as the arbitrary nature of it had the effect of creating uncertainty and paranoia in every individual relationship. This secured the power of the party and the regime.

The information itself was meaningless to the government, they just needed enough for a pretext to find someone of whom to make a periodic example. There was no real legalism in the use of the information. It was a pretext for arbitrary targeting to keep the belief in terror going. The system was intended to prevent an individual from working out specifically what being "good," could mean, or behaviour that would insulate them from the detentions and interrogations of the state. People collaborated and informed because all they had was fear, and having any principle at all would make you a danger for reprisals against people you cared about. It operates as simply as a ponzi scheme for terror.

Don't take my word for it, it's covered in the final chapter of "The Origins of Totalitarianism," (http://virtuallaboratory.colorado.edu/Origins/class%20readin...)

Platform companies have enough data to operate a terror, but the reality was, you didn't really need that much data at all. You just needed to be able to link people and a means to terrorize them and their loved ones in as random a way as possible. The worst was achieved in the 20th century with orders of magnitude less data.
It is a slippery slope from watching your friends do a silly dance to becoming a communist.

I guess. I don't know.
If I had to deploy AV for mail, I would absolutely scan outgoing mail as well. Imagine if some compromised mail account in my org sends malware to accounts in other companies. These companies could then sue my company for negligence if they can show that we did not scan our mail for viruses on outbound (which could potentially be done by examining mail headers).

(I am not a lawyer.)
> For a simple compiler, we should also look at Wirth's works, and Wirth's rule: an optimization has to pay for itself, that is, the compiler compiling itself with the optimization both in the executable and in the source code has to be faster than without it in both places.

That will result in a compiler best at optimizing programs that behave like compilers. Which may be fine for simple compilers, but it's worth keeping in mind that will not be a good compiler for domains where the programs don't behave like compilers (such as scientific computing, or even ML these days) that also want high performance.
How do we distinguish CNO neutrinos from those produced by proton-proton fusion?
Sounds like it should be trivial to build a website -- a future Show HN? -- to make the whole screen the correct color for a specific interval of time, fading in an out at the start/finish. The only thing the user might have to do it turn up the screen brightness first.
New cars can stay in their lane–but might not stop for parked cars
The US power isn't waning. TikTok literally is the only Chinese app that even has made it outside of China, because their isolationist nature has essentially made every other product entirely unattractive, while US tech dominates the globe.

Over the long term Friedman has been proven right over and over again. Protectionism doesn't work, and the US doesn't need to piss their pants because there's one app encroaching on their market.

Giving a government with already authoritarian tendencies in the US power over means of communication is completely ridiculous. This is the same tactic the US attempted to use in the 80s/90s to stop competition from Japanese carmakers and it ruined the American car industry for a solid 20 years.

American entrepreneurs can deal with competition from China, regardless of what China does in their domestic market, there's no need to engage in the same tactics as China.

The exact same discussion btw also happened in the 60s when Samuelson predicted that the Soviet Union would overtake the US economically. Literally every generation some other autocratic country temporarily scares the crap out of Americans, then they fail, and yet nobody appears to learn anything from it.
Tell HN: Rayshard Relativity AMA
I have come up with a new theory of relativity after discovering the origin of Einstein's fallacy; the fallacy that gravity is an illusion, space and time are intertwined, and spacetime bends to ensure the speed of light remains constant.

I'm calling it Rayshard Relativity, in honor of Rayshard Brooks, the black lives matter movement, and all others who have suffered under the gap between the haves and the have nots for far too long. See [1] for the interview he gave before he was shot.

Here's the gist:

- Space is three dimensional

- Gravity is real

- Time is emergent

- Time dilation is predicted by electromagnetism

Turns out we didn't need Einstein's tensor math and field equations after all. All we needed were the basic laws of physics/electromagnetism and Doppler's discovery 1842.

I believe this theory will unlock quantum computing, quantum encryption, unlimited energy through perpetual fusion/fission, and much more.

There are also many predictions that can be ruled out, such as wormholes, singularities, and time travel.

It also tells us why black holes are black, and no it's not so blueberries can become blackberries like my clever 5 year old niece thinks :)

I wish to remain anonymous and will remain anonymous. I relish the ability to move anonymously through the streets over any amount of fortune or fame. I just want to make this theory public so others can verify it and we can start building a better world on top of it. A simpler, more resilient, and more compassionate world ruled directly by and for the people.

AMA

You have two hours before I go surf and I'll be gone the rest of the day.

Who's up first?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJQStSDYyjg (Rayshard Brooks, In His Own Words)

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FYI to disarm the semantic word-bombs that are mass and energy, I will use spirit and matter. Far easier to wrap your head around the theory when the words aren't overloaded with prior beliefs.
There is a difference between companies and governments. In the US, it is not so easy for the government to get access about non-Americans because it can risk the the international business of US companies.
Couldn't you park a "space truck" in orbit, with a normal rocket, and just have the payload be a dumb container. Then shoot the container into orbit using the mass drive and pick it up with the "truck".

It's still might be no good for scientific equipment, but for food and things of that nature might be okay.
According to the article, they have a different amount of energy.
I don’t understand how you can say that with a straight face after everything we’ve seen about the NSA, PRISM, etc.
This is what Monero is for. Any cryptocurrency which hides the value and participants of transactions on its chain will always have value as long as asymmetric power exists in society.
TikTok is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

The US was never going to perpetually entertain a lop side trade relationship with a wealthy country that had the kind of human rights and foreign policy situation the west traditionally only ignores if you're poor.

It just so happens that the current administration is not run by political professionals so it comes across like a toddler throwing a tantrum and obviously many people take significant issue with the specific policies presented (i.e. this whole TikTok debacle).

Make no mistake, regardless of who's in the oval office next February we are in for cooler trade relations with China. This has been a long time coming and there's bipartisan support. The left is no fan of off-shoring industry to places with more lax worker and environmental protections. The right is no fan of doing business with a bunch of reds who hate religious freedom. Neither side is a fan of either of those things coming at the expense of working class Americans.
Who didn't dig tunnels as kids.

Perhaps the bigger question is why it's not more popular.
I remember reading about this attack being implemented and executed in a university system decades ago. Perhaps apocryphal, but it didn’t seem that way.
Just a note, you are indenting your urls making HN use code formatting on them, thus rendering them not clickable. just paste the url itself without indent.
Well, double standard obviously. Just in 2020, there are already quite a few cases that China did something deemed evil and some western country did something similar maybe almost the same but viewed as righteous. Then here comes the question, are there good evil and bad evil? If no, how to explain such a difference?
Respectfully, I disagree with your premise/question. Open Source is about way more than marketing/promotion. It's a means to make the world a better place. Unless something needs to be private because its a state secret (security through obscurity), all software should be open source by default. That way all of humanity can benefit from it and we can reduce duplication of effort.
Computer monitors do not work like that. They emit a mix of 3 fixed spectra. You cannot shift the red to an even longer wavelength. At least not without adding some physical filters on top that only let through the long tail (which is fairly inefficient). At that point you might as well buy specialized LEDs.
A lot of people rant about SQL alchemy. I have used it recently and it isn't anywhere close to Django's ORM for ease of use.
Won’t make a difference, Trump would sooner pull out of the WTO than have his decisions dictated by it.
A story of AOC blocking someone on Twitter is all you have.

Well, OK lol
What every developer should know about database consistency
>Facebook and Google probably are out because of fear the sale will be disallowed because of their market dominance.

Facebook okay, Google is not even a player in social networking unless you are referring to YouTube, since it is a video platform.

But I feel, fear of competition laws is not the major delimiter in the whole Tik-Tok sale fiasco; This is state initiated after all.
Xenophobia.
SSTOs trade-off is very unfavorable, which is why no one is seriously considering one anymore, for Earth's gravity well. In order to avoid solving the relative simple task of efficient stage mating and assembly, an engineering challenge you have to solve once per launch system and can amortize over the whole life of the system, you end up paying the cost of hauling into orbit a huge amount of unnecessary mass, every single launch. That's a very expensive trade-off.
Thanks for the insight! I am the team--everything before was done quite manually with spreadsheets. I already work in the organization but have been promoted out of development into this new role so I'm blessed to have a large amount of flexibility. It does seem like Python is the right tool for the job. Your perspective confirms my hunch.
Ignorance is power too: why JK Rowling deliberately repeats untruths
I emailed Greg Joswiak about this (it’s cool how some of their leadership will respond to strangers’ emails: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055149) and he said the command had previously changed. It’ll be fixed soon on the site.

Are there other inaccuracies?
A good place to start could be Japanese grammar which relies heavily on relational markers (so-called "particles"). It would also be appropriate since Emoji originate in Japan.

For example, to express something like "I went to the grocery store yesterday", the corresponding Japanese sentence would be structured like this: "I <topic-marker> grocery store <destination-marker> yesterday <time-marker> go-<past-tense-suffix>".
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I stand corrected, annualized the quarterly shrinkage of US and Germany are about the same.

This sadly doesn't change the main point, though: Most of the hardships of employees and small businesses are specific results of the lack of proper relief in the US, without the US economy having gained an advantage out of this.
GP is talking about cultural power, not political power. Look around you and you'll see so much:

- affirmative action which sees white males as "above" other races, so "compensates" for others

- being told they're the root of all evil

- being told they can't "punch down" - even though this is a white supremacist viewpoint because it's putting one race over all others

- being told colourblind-ness is racist

I want to be peers with all races and genders, not divided over silly lines.
> Neither side is a fan of either of those things coming at the expense of working class Americans.

Except the parties representing those two sides.
I suspect one less petty motivation is to encourage the US to reduce visa restrictions for Brazilians. It wasn't actually reciprocal in practice because as far as I know the process of paying the fee as a USC visiting Brazil was far less involved than the process of applying for a US tourist visa (correct me if I'm wrong), not to mention an argument can be made that the fee on average has a lower impact on people from a higher-income country.
I have two of their drones. Hope I can continue to fly. It’s helped me a lot since this pandemic started, being able to take a fun distraction. I’m able to just zone out from all those meetings, calls, reports, emails, code etc. etc.
yeah, that's a really good initiative. Thanks for sharing buddy!
While exact implementations depend on the site in question Django runs only on the server and React runs only on the browser. Dropping React to only use Django sounds like an airplane designer saying "let's skip adding the propellers for the demo and only install the engines."

(Or is the team saying they only want to emit static HTML or JSON from the server-side? Like I said the architect might be saying something I'm not getting here -- or maybe you might have mis-heard or mis-remembered what was said?)
While using throwaway account doesn't necessarily mean the comment is manipulation, I personally have an issue with unsubstantiated comments from anonymous poster with no credible past history on HN.

If I am to take the comment I need something that would give some credibility to it, like having some way to verify the claims or if that is not possible, have a real person that puts their word behind the claim.

There is a reason why it is not possible for anonymous witness to testify in court and the reason is that anonymous person can say whatever they want with no responsibility for their words. It is exactly that responsibility and accountability that gives credibility to the witness.
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You equate locking my door at night with killing subsistence fishermen who are breaking fishing laws to survive?
Those months are unpaid, is there any practical reason why you would wait until they give you 3 unpaid months rather than just quitting at any point?
As a simple problem solving thought experiment, I’ve been saying the same thing (purposeful infection with a cold virus). It’s not likely to be an outcome that we would want to use, but from my laymen perspective it sounds much easier than creating a vaccine (the cold virus already exists). But of course testing would have to take place and it could actually make things worse.

While the solution has not yet been identified 100%, we should be looking at everything. That is just good problem solving.
That’s a good question, and something I forgot to check. I also forgot to test which devices supported UASP; I think the SSDs and Corsair did, but not sure about the Arcanite. Sounds like I need to do a follow-up!
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The most sophisticated arguers of that group would draw a distinction between short-term evolution and long-term. This was normally a response to the peppered moth observations. That's short-term evolution, which doesn't explain ball and socket joints, or eyes.

Or, this was the explanation on blogs 10-15 years ago. A very strange time that was.
> Decreasing the aperture size on a lens increases the field of view.

No, the aperture has no effect on the field of view. They are orthogonal features of how a lens works.
It can be different yes. As far as I know, wavelengths that you don't perceive will not cause your pupils to contract in response to harmful intensity of light.

While it can be very bright in the open sun, your eyes will compensate for this. A light source which emits harmful amount of IR and little to no visible light will probably not elicit this reaction and damage your eyes without you realizing until it's too late.

Infrared lasers are particularly dangerous for this aspect.
After fooling around with it, I was able to move or otherwise give away the balance in my account. I had to do in a combination of smaller hongbaos, transfers and business transfers. I triggered face verification with the first transfer I tried, but some how it reset after a while.
If the developers are familiar with Django, they can probably do the MVP just fine with it - without any front end framework.
YouTube is huge social network but nobody refers to like it, but it has all of its characteristics.
I'll agree that the Django ORM isn't very good once your queries get moderately complex. But I have been underwhelmed by SQLalchemy having tried it recently. It's not intuitive compared to Django's and in the end for complex query I just ended up in raw SQL anyway - as I would have in Django's ORM.