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It's not just Hawking, you'll hear similar arguments from Dawkins, Harris, Kraus, and many more, and guess what, from a purely atheistic materialistic point of view, they're right. They have made the arguments like incest cannot be shown to be wrong, or that suffering doesn't matter, that rape just is, like the stripes on a tiger, a phenomenon that is neither right nor wrong. That is the only rational ultimate conclusion of atheism.
Well, not putting explosives in a city is not hard; not putting substances that have some industry uses and happen to be explosive (eg fertilizer) near industry is hard.

After all, it needs to be shipped, stored and used.

If there's shipping, there will be some port city not far.

And if there is industrial use, there will be workers, and some city as well to house the workers.

See:

- Halifax explosion (how hard is it to not make explosive-carrying ships go to ports?)

- AZF explosion (how hard is it to not locate factories far away from cities?)

- Texas City Refinery explosion (how hard is it to not let refinery workers inside the refinery?)

- Tianjin explosions (how hard is it to not locate a port city near its port?)

And so forth
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This comment is such an empty statement. The one plus one equals two kind. Are you implying something? Do you know if the authors have many or few years in the field? What does it mean to truly understand databases or SQL? To point out the vacuousness, let me rephrase this statement to come up with an equally profound message of my own:

Very few people truly understand CMS-es, and therefore very few people truly understand Wordpress. I would be suspicious of any “Wordpress replacement” that didn’t come from someone with many, many years in the field.
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Initially positive to the idea, but to me this seems ill-concieved.

The tagline:
> Stop taking turns to speak. Hop in and out of conversations with one click. Hear the chatter of tables around you.

To me it seems like adding the worst parts of social spaces like pubs/nightclubs etc.:

- Noise: People talking over each other.
- Multi-tasking. So it’s hard to keep a decent conversation going.
- Noise: Can hardly hear what people around you are saying.
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I somehow doubt someone is going to sue you for violating those trademarks...
The JAMStack is a thing, and it seems to be gaining momentum.
That's excellent to hear! Perhaps I can use it, after all – just as soon as I figure out how to add SSH keys to git, anyway.

I last used Repl.it so long ago, I didn't know that there was a shell. (Which is odd, since I read about how you can technically use arbitrary programming languages by installing them via the shell just a few hours ago…)

Leaving feedback now. (Fortunately, you don't need Google to do that, so I don't need to mess with my browser again.)
Gremlin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_(query_language)

Cypher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher_(query_language)
We'll eventually get to the point where Starship-like rockets only ferry people, cargo, and, maybe, propellant to LEO for transfer to spaceships that don't need to go deep into any gravity well. These ships will then take you to orbit around your destination so you can board another shuttle to the surface.
> they are backed by an entity which has plans for global dominance and are not exactly aligned with American interests

The irony is that each of the entities has plans for global dominance, which is incompatible with the plans and interests the other one has.

The sad part is that it turns out the US is willing to forgo its values if this gives them a leg up on China. Makes any future rhetoric on values and morals seem a bit empty. *

* It has been pointed out that perhaps "empty rhetoric" wasn't the best choice of words. Maybe "rhetoric that no longer has any basis in reality whatsoever" sums it up better.
It does not make them virtue signal if we look at what Islam teaches. As a matter of fact, being rich in Islam is a burden/test in its own way (we can see one reason why, as per this very article, and the fact that the rich will be asked about what they did with their wealth). Furthermore, and very importantly, virtue signaling is not only discouraged, but a very large sin (look up Riyaa').
Russia unveils Covid-19 vaccine before final testing is complete
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-unveils-coronavi...
Completely agree. For example, why isn't there functionality to define aliases for complex expressions and then reuse those through a query. Simple query-local SQL functions would be nice too.

I'd love to see a "SQL-like" language that compiles down to SQL itself, much like Babel or TypeScript in the JavaScript world. I think the tricky thing is that there is no single SQL target.
(Explosion at 7:30)

That's an amazing view. Terrifying. CGI people will be basing Hollywood explosions on this for years to come.
He left after a head injury.

Was that truly Woz own pure and simple choice or was it influenced by his accident?

Did it change his ability to perform like he did before and thought it wasn't worth it to continue? Did it change his personality? Brain damage aside, did coming close to death by his own hand changed his outlook on life?

He never left Apple behind completely. Sure it ended up great but if not for the crash maybe what happened wasn't what he really wanted at the time.
I've found this extension https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html rather useful for dealing with that.

It also means I am less likely to share an AMP link.
Article title seems to be "Essay: Run for Your Life" and barely even mentions CEOs.
It's possible that the impact that caused the crater only liquefied the brine at the impact site.
It depends:

Is your standard for friendship facebook friends, of which the average person has hundreds, or close personal friends of which the average person has 3-7?

Did they grow up where they're living, thus forming a non-work social network, or did they move there for work and find the distance made it hard to keep in touch with old friends?

Do they have interests (religion, sport clubs, parenting etc) that bring them into contact with people outside of their professional circles, and give them a chance to get to know each other?
> All we know about the actual propellant is that it's used in fusion reactors and is surprisingly efficient.

Since we're being specific with terminology, if it's used in a fusion reactor, it's not a propellant, since propellant is a combination of chemical fuel and oxidizer.
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My pet theory is that life is pretty common in the universe, it happened on Earth almost as soon as the oceans formed. But photosynthesis, mitochondria, and multi-celularity each took a lot longer and probably represent the biggest barriers to intelligent life.

Plus, as you say, most liquid water is in the deep dark under ice sheets far from the nearest star which makes photosynthesis difficult.
Where does the revenue from this auction go?

Presumably it's given to creditors of the fyre festival? What if there is an excess?
I find pdfs easier to read long texts than other formats - I can have a page (or two) displayed at a time, they're always cleanly broken up because everyone sees the same page size, and I can press a keyboard key to move to the next page.
> If you can't say with 100% certain NO to these questions, and taking in account the US and China are in some sort of 'cold war', doesn't it make sense that the US goverment cuts the feet of an app that can change election results?

You mean ... shut down Facebook????
FED money goes into banks and stocks. Cities do not get any of that FED QE money.
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I think that you pretty much hit on the gist of the post. Professor needs to practice to draw cartoons, students need to practice to draw graphs, he shouldn’t be frustrated with students inability to draw graphs because they are at the beginning of their journey. Just as a cartoonist could possibly draw Bert and Ernie without any reference material compared to an amateur who can’t even when copying from a picture. A student can’t “draw” the scatter plot as well as a professor who has worked with the data for their whole career because they may be putting marks on the paper but they don’t necessarily “see” the data/ information.
Certain data is going to have a certain form to it that may only be apparent to someone who works with it regularly so if asked to draw the data, you leave out details that are obvious to an expert such as making the made up data conform to the regression line or failing to include non-negative numbers.
The exercise made the professor empathize with the students about being expected to do something trivial for the expert but difficult for the beginner.
I'm no economist, but wouldn't this lead to greater wealth disparity?

When money leaks out, it leaks in to somewhere else. Sort of like connecting bodies of water will lower the water level of one body and raise it in another. One place will lose out and another will gain.

Unless differences in local taxation/laws/amenities/other lead to wealth/poverty hotspots. With some areas vacuuming up wealth and others repelling it. Is that what this is really solving? Unable to compete on local taxation/laws/amenities/other, cities have to find another way to prevent their wealth being repelled.

Sounds like just another wall though. Which can surely never last
SSDs have been out for a while and I'm guessing most developer workstations have them now and that's why a lot of software can suddenly be changed to have a disk heavy workload without a developer noticing.

You should upgrade - it'll be a considerable boost to your computer's speed and your productivity. SSDs are pretty cheap now.

You can stay using a HDD if you like but I don't think it's going to get better.
> Thanks for writing "polymorphic associations". Not knowing that probably is why I struggled to find any info on it.

We might have had a similar experience with this. The first time I stumbled across this problem though I was specifically trying to figure out “what is the relational way to implement polymorphism”, so I pretty much lucked into the a rather productive series of google searches.
In a CRC-style code, you're essentially adding up all the bytes and letting it overflow the counter, so that the counter is a fixed size (usually 16 or 32 bits). Then you add a few more bytes, exactly the same size as the counter, so that the data bytes plus the extra bytes add up to zero. The extra bytes are delivered along with the data bytes, so that the recipient can repeat the calculation and verify that the total is still zero. If you modify the data, it is trivial to recalculate the CRC code so that the total is still zero.

Hashes are much, much more complex, and they're non-linear. Each bit of the hash output is intended to depend on every single bit of the input, so that changing a single bit in the input creates a radically different hash output.

In a paper published this year, https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014.pdf, the authors Gaëtan Leurent and Thomas Peyrin changed the values of 825 bytes out of a 1152 byte PGP key in order to generate a new key with the same signature (aka, the same hash). It only cost about $45k, too.
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The potential lack of vulcanic and geological activity now is a big problem. For the first 700 millions years life on Earth depended on chemosynthesis and that's where the energy for that comes from. Presumably there could have been more active geology far in the past, though, possibly implying life that died out.
It's an interesting idea, but I find characters developed on the surface of a neutron star will end up being implausibly flat, lacking any depth.

(badum tish)
It's a minimal native application which creates a window with an HTML widget in it, essentially a mini-browser wrapped in a native application. The difference to Electron is that this browser isn't a bundled Chromium, but the browser engine that's integrated with the operating system (Edge on Windows, WebKit on macOS and Linux), so the application installer is much, much smaller.

When I tinkered with https://github.com/webview/webview on macOS a minimal Hello World application was around 26 kBytes (kilo, not mega), which is about 7000x smaller than a default macOS Electron instance (173 MBytes).
> I'd like to mess with Qt but the GUI builder is with their paid licensing iirc i think, but it seems to be the only cross-platform solution afaik

{apt, brew cask, choco} install qtcreator

it's entirely free & open-source. there is Qt Designer Studio which adds a couple of convenience functionalities if you are making e.g. embedded appliance dashboards but for 100% of desktop UIs you have everything needed in the LGPL qtcreator
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Because from Reagan on, America has been doing quite well of course...
The Federal Reserve is a construction of the people. It can be instructed by the representatives of the people to engage everybody who turns up at $15 per hour.

You can't add points in a football game either. But the referee can.
Thanks for engaging. I'm perfectly happy switching to something new. I've only been on this place for six weeks or so. But I'm a bit conflicted about options.

Looking at the front page of HN on any given day, a significant portion of the top comments are not about the material, but about the site itself: the fonts are too big, the layout is hard-to-read, it's a paywall, Medium has gone to crap, the site shouldn't be trusted, the load times are too long, the page is too heavy, and so on. (You have to know what I'm talking about here)

I'm a coder, so I can (and have) put content in all kinds of places. I could give you a detailed list of a dozen or so that I've tried, from plain html/js on my own server to Git Pages and this current experiment. The problem is that I have _yet_ to use any of these where I didn't get some sort of meta comment like yours.

I believe, and I hope I'm wrong, that the _control_ issue you mention is never going to go away. It's just going to be an issue of what trade-offs people are willing to make for ease-of-use. Yeah, I could drop web pages and multi-media content on AWS and set up my own membership and streaming services. Then I could get into multi-format streaming, SAML, CDN configuration, and a hundred other technical issues that I'd love to play with, but have nothing at all with trying to create some kind of useful content out of my career experiences so far.

So thanks, and I agree, but I'm still kind of at a loss at what to do. If more people complain I'll send the admins an email. I could leave, but to where? Meh.

EDIT: If I wasn't clear enough, I don't like the popup either.
> there isn't any sort of scripted narrative documentary told via old footage, current interviews, etc.

I suspect this is because of the economics of youtube. I don't think there is enough money in it for niche documentaries to be profitable. Either it's quick cheap solo stuff, or it's big documentaries but with a nice broad appeal (e.g. Vice or food stuff)
Rhetoric about US values has been empty since Guantanamo Bay started housing "foreign militants". Europe seems to be the only place in the West where a commitment to human rights is sincere.
Indeed. But that doesn't require deducting points from people from previous seasons and asking them to return their trophies so there is sufficient for this season.

We just alter the rules and carry on issuing points as required.
Correct. It's a known issue that all of two people (including me) have ever run across! https://repl.it/feedback/p/make-replit-work-without-google (In reality, the people who submit feedback are a very skewed representation of the population-at-large, so there might actually be three people who've encountered this issue.)
I have a script I call brain dump. It is just vim running in a while loop in a terminal. I can switch to at any time with Ctrl+Shift+J. I type some stuff and when I'm done I save as normal and the note is emailed to be behind the scenes. Encrypted with PGP. I can view it from any device and I have great search. And because I happen to run my own email I also completely own this. I don't want to share my musing with another random third-party that will use it somehow to spam me. The next generation of internet products ought to finally be privacy first. Let's make the internet what it is supposed to be.
Python and English are meant to be general purpose languages, so they are kind of expected to be large and occasionally inconsistent. SQL is (by definition) a domain-specific language which has grown out of proportions.

Are there really any SQL libraries in the traditional sense (i.e. reusable/composable SQL code with a well specified API)? SQL "libraries" typically focus on hiding the inconsistencies and the abhorrent syntax under the carpet.

And the user base is there, mostly because of the database engine properties and features. The query language itself is just a bad side-effect. And TFA does make a point that NoSQL abandoning the underlying RDBMS model is in fact a regression.
I learned programming before I learned English. I was always confused by PRINT vs INPUT: which one reads and which one writes? So yeah, it could have been grob and bolver or anything.
The period from the Berlin Conference of 1884 to the First World War was the high watermark of European imperialism. British and French imperial holdings in Africa tripled, and Germany went from a handful of colonial holdings, to owning 10% of the landmass of Africa. By 1913 the European powers had colonised 96% of Africa. The dwindling of territories led to extreme competition among the colonial powers. Flash points in Fashoda (1898) and Morocco (1905 and 1911) nearly tipped over into war. Arguably, the underlying cause was the fact that gross inequality in the European powers created domestic imbalances in which capital outstripped purchasing power, forcing it to seek new investments abroad. One might draw a crude analogy between the way in which the Cold War was externalised to the global South, and the way that European tensions after 1884 played out in Africa.

As for the Second World War, I would say two things. First, that Nazi ideology was, in many ways, a product of European imperialism: its ideal of a Pan-Germanic state in Central Europe, its virulently racist and extermanist designs, and even its use of concentration camps. Second, one of the main grievances of Germany was that it was stripped of its colonial territories at Versailles, and that its territories were transformed into mandates run by the League of Nations according to principles of free trade, at the same time that France and Britain continued to run their own colonies as protectionist blocs. It was British sympathy for this colonial imbalance that, in part, stood behind the policy of appeasement. As for Japan, it was a classically imperialist power, reacting to the expansion of the US across the Pacific.
> Overlays were not part of the DOS operating system.

Microsoft introduced overlay support in MS-DOS 2.x, via the "load overlay" function – INT 21h,AH=4Bh,AL=03h. You can see the references in the MS-DOS source code here: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...

This was already known long before Microsoft released the MS-DOS 2.x source code; Ralf Brown's Interrupt List documents it:

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For what it's worth - It also affects third countries.

For instance, Australia and Europe currently don't have a full free-trade agreement. So you can walk into your local supermarket and buy something labelled 'Australian Feta Cheese'.

However, when that same product is sold in South Korea it has to be relabelled as 'Australian White Cheese', because South Korea has an agreement with Europe that Feta is a protected term.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/cheese-blue-australi...
I really hope he gets a lot more mainstream recognition and appreciation for what he has done for Apple.

It would be nice to see that who laughs last laughs best.

I don't like to hear phrases like: Engineers are important, but in the end it's all about marketing, see Jobs...

People should realize that there is nothing to market if there is not someone who solves complex technical problems.
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That sounds like water in hydrated minerals rather than liquid water? In terms of settling inner solar system asteroids where the sun bakes everything you're looking for material with as much easily extractable water as concrete to make a comfortable home.
How is a very elaborate blog post indicating the what & why considered marketing?

In my opinion this goes WAY beyond the usual changelog entry in other repositories.
At the very least you need a universal option to vote by mail. There's a few good reasons: 1. People are going to make individual judgements about how high the risk is and you don't want people making the choice between safety and voting. 2. It is disproportionately more difficult for people to vote in some areas[1]- making the risk different. 3. What we're seeing more and more are localized outbreaks, where certain areas have a flare up of cases, in those cases you probably don't want to vote in person. 4. People who are self-isolating would be disenfranchised.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/texas-pollin...
Even after having read the provided link. I have no idea what this is.
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The person decides how their labour is used. They take a guaranteed job or they take a private job.

The private job then just has to be better than the guaranteed one and they will get the labour.

Where's your central planning in that?
Security is foundational. It's not something to add later. Without it, signup is not done and shouldn't be shipped. Ironically, not having the reset password functionality actually reduces security bug surface area :-)
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Hey all,

My name is Marko, and recently I became increasingly interested in new Deno runtime (https://deno.land/). Since I'm big fan of functional programming too, I decided to make an HTTP server for Deno with functional composition in mind.

GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/Vertrical/tino.

I wanted to make something which uses plain functions, also with as smaller learning curve as possible, without any decorators or classes, something which makes it easy to isolate controllers, middlewares, and unit test them significantly easier, making all functions pure. So all dependencies and side effects you can mock and pass to a function you'd want to test. Also any of the controllers and middlewares can be async functions too, which makes composition actually an async composition (it always returns a promise but it's done internally).

Deno runtime also allows you to write TypeScript, and Tino is pure JS, I'm planning on writing maybe 2.0 version with full TS, BUT when TS 4.0 is out (soon), so when currying and composing functions will be possible without overloading hack.

I'm happy to answer any of the questions and suggestions you might have! :)
Well, that's what helicopters are for. Although if the mast doesn't fit inside the cabin, you'll need pilot with a longlining expertise, which is more expensive and less available.
If your dad is open to it, these three happen to be among the ones i have never been able to find anything (mp3.com especially) so I’d be interested

They would fit nicely : http://mattmg83.github.io/cynicalcapitalist/portfolio.html