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> There is no "can't or won't" on a global scale: some countries have, others haven't as a function of their means.

That is exactly "can't or won't". The USA or China certainly "can" fix these issues in Africa if they want to but they "won't". But the African countries themselves obviously don't have this capability thus they "can't" fix it.

> The fact that ultra wealthy individuals have better means than entire countries is an indictment of the state of affairs, not praise.

Why is this an indictment. This is not self evident at all to me. The opposite is true from my perspective. This story and initiatives like the giving pledge very clearly show me that that the mega rich are doing things no country is doing. And thus these problem would remain unsolved if they would not be here.
Political pressure from the top down.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/cdc-coronavirus-test...
Hope isn't a solution. This is a solvable problem, if enough people work on it and enough resources are directed towards it. Channel those chills into something that contributes towards a solution.
People who won both the Nobel and the Oscar:

- George Bernard Shaw
- Al Gore
- Bob Dylan (also a Pulitzer)
For me it's cigarettes, I mean smelling cigarettes smoked by people around, not me. There's surely some psyche behind, I've associated this smell and cigarettes with death
I don't use/like Roswell, so I'd really prefer a .deb if at all possible.
We don't know exactly what a human brain is. That's kind of the problem.
Yup, 4 is the key. Lucid Air is being marketed as high end luxury car, so 113kwh is totally believable. But Tesla's first-mover advantage in this case is having locked down the battery supply chain necessary to scale. It seems that most of Tesla's competition is stalling for time while they wait for their battery suppliers/partners to catch up. I don't doubt at least some of them will get there eventually, but it should take a few years.
> Increasing density has definite externalities.

So does endless sprawl. Arguably larger, even.
I consider death as the only absolute fairness. Once it’s fixed, the first batch of people who can afford it must be those in power (you know, Xi, Trump, Kim, etc).
After payment processor fees on other platforms, I assume the resulting profit should be really close.
Looks super cool, but we don't run any java apps. Can't wait for the Go version!!!
A word of caution: the VM is free, but the traffic is very much not! You'll have to pay $85/TB after 1GB.

https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing
> Death does seem scary. But having to live for quintillions of years would certainly be worse.

You have no evidence from which to argue that as a certainty. Let's gather such evidence; you could always make a more informed decision at a much later time.
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At least with a leveraged ETF you'll never lose more than you invested.
I’m all for how these changes are going to negatively affect Facebook and advertisers. But I just can’t also escape the feeling in the long term I’m giving up control of the devices I own and the actual act of computing to get to this result.

If it came to destroying advertisers or free open computing I want free computing.
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If that's the real Jake Wharton, I have to say I am a big fan of the tools/libs (and their quality) you wrote for Android. They were especially useful 7-5 years ago, when the "official" libs were pathetically crappy :).
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Also the crash that left over 100 dead.
One of my colleagues helped find the Timsort bug and recently another such bug (might be the Java binary search, don't remember).

The edge case to show a straightforward version of that recent bug basically required a supercomputer. The artifact evaluation committee complained even.

So you can try to test for that only based on output. But it's gigantically more efficient to test with knowledge of internals.
any idea how to get the swift upload network traffic down?

My 500K objc ipa ported to swift http://mro.name/ShaarliOS now is ~8MB (OTA test ipa), ~28MB for production upload causing ~300MB traffic until finally uploaded via xcrun, taking 1h on my rural uplink.

Has anybody an idea how to get back to sane dimensions?
Purdue specifically claimed that oxy was safer; that it had a smaller chance of addiction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/#__sec2...
>Adtech giants need advertisers to believe they need targeted advertising, because targeted advertising relies on mass data collection only they are capable of getting. If people realized the necessity of using Google and Facebook's mass user data was... a complete lie... any old ad firm could compete with their businesses.

Targeted advertising is as old as advertising. Why do you have cloud companies advertising on the billboards in San Francisco, but not in Beatty, Nevada? Why do you have coupons? Why Cosmopolitan has different ads than Linux Format? Why NBA games have different ads than The Bachelor?

Why do companies spend more and more money with companies that do provide better targeted advertising? Do you really believe that P&G spends billions of dollars on advertising, without understanding which forms of it are effective?

There's a valid discussion to be had about scope, allowed sophistication of targeted advertising that should be allowed, and regulations about it, but claiming it doesn't work just shows lack understanding of the topic.
I'm an accredited investor. I've had a series 7 license and was in a finance PHD program.

I've had the chance to see a lot of investments that require you being an accredited investor. Almost all of them have had some highly problematic issues. Most of them have a outcomes where you can lose all of your money and there is NO WAY to get out of the investments.

What I tell other people is run away from investments that require you to be accredited.

Seed round investments are probably the "best" opportunity BUT you have the risks of being screwed by cap table games. A "regular" person could put money into a startup and get really screwed.
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You are being downvoted because of ill-received irony, not because it is factually wrong.
Since there was so much illegal activity, who went to jail?
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@fortan77, That's fascinating! How do you know this? Do you speak Arameic? I happen to speak Arameic, but it's so crazy to find someone here on HN who might speak Arameic.
I know plenty of scientists who perform at the very highest levels at top tier institutions and have families. Yes, they're quite busy, but I strongly disagree with the framing that scientists can't have families. I know you're not advocating that in your post, but figured it was worth mentioning (especially as these tropes can negatively impact representation of women in science)
You're not the audience. I think art has always been a game of finding something unique in the sea of mainstream. If there were 50 other artists who made art similar to Pollock, he would never have achieved this fame.

I'm sure you've encountered someone saying something along the lines of "Oh, I like it a lot but it's so common, literally every other person has it.". That's the kind of audience art is targeted towards. It's easy to classify if art is good or bad:

1. Is unique. If something is very similar to other famous
and sought-after pieces of art then it's not good.
2. Is popular in the art-community and sought after among the rich.

If something satisfies these two requirements then it's good art. Otherwise it's not.

Remember the $120,000 banana? It satisfies both conditions. So it was "good art". It also got three buyers apparently.
It's more closely equivalent to mentioning the considerable cost in human life, particularly among the Chinese, in building the first American transcontinental railroad.

Which, in modernity, we invariably do.

What you're engaging in here, has its own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
My biggest problem with this is that I have had multiple opportunities as a young professional to invest in my friends’ small funds, only to be turned away at the last minute when they decided to only accept accredited investors.

On the other hand, I could participate in sh*tcoin ICO’s, get rich quick “courses”, and become a real estate “investor” by attending presentations at a Holiday Inn conference room.

The law as it currently stands, does not work, period.

I’ve been prevented from investing in the funds and businesses of my high integrity friends, while being allowed to participate in lotteries, gambling, MLMs, ICOs, the list goes on...

I was really hoping this would be a huge announcement, but unfortunately its a couple tiny steps towards the ultimate end goal of opening up private markets to individuals.

Many people like to reference scams that this law helps avoid, but I call BS.

Has it limited some cons from raising money from middle class people, yes. Has it limited a lot of middle class people from participating in areas with the highest returns, yes.

I’ve read about several people that weren’t accredited checking the box anyways, and no enforcement actually happens, which makes me think it’s a BS regulation to begin with.
> People with big families don't get to live in Portland?

Nothing in the legislation prohibits big houses. All it does is legalize small ones.
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> Everyone knows that sugar is bad for you

I'm sure they do, but that's the logic that has led to all manner of ill-advised diets. Too much sugar, especially refined sugar, is bad for you. You need sugar in your diet for quick-burning energy. Avoiding all sugar and only eating proteins is going to leave you lethargic and unmotivated as shit because protein requires more calories than carbs to break down. You may as well be trying to digest a brick. There's a reason every American Thanksgiving ends with a bunch of tired guests.

Hamburgers come with buns. Steak is often served with potatoes. Chicken is often served with rice. Burritos are wrapped in tortillas. The latter in all cases is a serving of carbohydrates...glorified sugar in all cases, and necessary to keep you awake and moving so you can break down all that protein.

> but the idea that short-term dopamine - even when the activity doesn't have other obviously-negative side effects - can be actively harmful to your mental health is a very unintuitive one

Why is this unintuitive? Lazy people seek the most-immediate form of gratification available; that's literally the definition of laziness. Doing this repeatedly erodes your neural pathways to the point where your routes to dopamine rewards are artificially limited because longer (and more sustainable) paths simply cease to exist.

The real trick to beating it? Constant mental stimulation through establishment of new neural pathways. Exercise helps. Amphetamines do too (but will permanently ruin your ability to self-correct-- consider it nothing more than a clinically-administrated addiction). Travel. Learn a new language. Learn a new skill. Interest level does not matter; if it's something different than what you're used to and you can derive even the slightest amusement from it, you're creating new routes--even partial ones--to those sweet chemical rewards.

Scheduled/structured activities are greatly underrated-- being dragged into new activities and situations forces you out of your narrowly-defined set of paths and creates new ones that yield new rewards (and anecdotally, I suspect this pattern of constantly-seeking new stimuli may go a long way toward staving off degenerative brain disorders).

But the article doesn't even try to address any of this. It's literally a bunch of fluff culminating in "hey incels, just stop beating off." Yes, sound advice, but for the intended audience advice alone doesn't cut it, otherwise obese people enduring years of shame and torment would be sufficiently motivated to get off the couch. Once you've lost it, the problem is with finding the motivation to even get off the couch in the first place; it's even more hopeless for those who let this get to the point of clinical depression (and who now have two problems). At some level you end up with such impossibly-diminished returns that it takes external intervention to be able to even think about acting on pithy advice-- either antidepressants, gastic bypass, whatever.
They way they feel when platforms change their policies without consultation is how I feel when I see targeted ads.
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Translation: Facebook will find a way.
> God, I really hope there's something after death.

There is something, it's the same thing that was before your birth, in that sense so you are very much just returning to your natural state: You have been not born for the longest time and you will be dead for the longest time.

In that context this rather short experience of existence is actually the thing that's out of the ordinary, making it that much more valuable.
It might be better to put the conclusion somewhere near the top or otherwise make it more visible - it's a convoluted topic in its details with a bunch of options with very similar names. There is a simple correct answer though, and it's worth emphasizing that.
> The authorities there could very easily preempt this by arresting the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back and charging him with attempted murder.

You think the mob will stop? You are advocating for a justice system driven by threats from the mob that must be responded to in real time. You aren't even attempting to grapple with the particular facts that are in evidence at the moment in this case, never mind what might be discovered by actually asking questions. You aren't describing a justice system based on the rule of law, you are describing mob rule. It won't end well for anybody. Why would anyone in their right mind be a police office given the framework you describe? Why would anyone choose to stay in that type of a jurisdiction? The logical consequences of your framework would be disastrous for the community. The medicine you are prescribing is far, far worse than the disease.
3 bedroom is not some kind of ridiculous luxury if you have teenage son(s) & daughter(s).
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The thought that some day I will cease to exist used to terrify me. It still does, but it has lost some of its sharpness since I decided to work against my fear of dying.

The fear of death was seriously bothering me and I thought: " You can either try to achieve immortality or try to loose your fear of death within your lifetime."

The second one is a solvable problem, the first one, for me personally, not. It gives a strange comfort that one day I might be free of the fear of death even if I know that still I will die.
As a fellow TSLA retail investor up about 50x on an average cost basis, not 10x, I don't really put much weight in those credentials unfortunately. We could easily get owned here shortly.
Looks like series 65 is the way to go since series 82 also requires sponsorship.

Depends. If simply passing the exam was enough, that does seem semi-reasonable. But if it requires you actually be licensed by your respective state, then the rabbit-hole goes much deeper. I looked at the requirements here in NC, although I don't know how representative they are of other states, but basically you'd have to register with the State as an investment management company (which would probably entail registering an LLC or something), and then pay them $300 / year to keep up your registration. Add the $200/ year or so for the LLC filing fees, as well as the paperwork requirements (annual report, etc), tax filings, and suchlike, and you're talking about a barrier that while not insurmountable, is still going to be fairly steep for most people.
EKS is still on 1.17

AWS is really dragging their feet on supporting latest version of K8s
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> The unfortunate reality is that mentally ill people that don't know how to take care of themselves are expensive.

When did I ever mention housing for the mentally ill?

What I'm saying is I think consenting, functional adults should have the option of living in a dorm-style setting if they so choose.

For one, it's a great way to build community.

For two, it should be a significantly cheaper way to live, which would probably appeal mainly to the poor, but would also appeal to the same set of people that already live with multiple roommates to reduce costs.

Apartment complexes already have on-premise maintenance staff. There is no reason to expect that a dorm-style building couldn't also be staffed appropriately.
I just try not to think about it too much. It seems that this fear is quite widespread, given amount of religions that promise some sort of afterlife. I feel that believers have somewhat chosen "easier" way, so that instead of worrying about ceasing existing they have perspective of heaven/hell/whatever. But given the amount of logical contradictions involved, I'm just intellectually unable to accept religion.
The denizens of Anarres don't own any personal belongings, having abolished private property. A cheap trick to circumvent bad actors.
A nice why-and-why journey. Yet as an interviewing approach this seems to lack an initial premise, the need.

For example.

* I want to know what does a URL represent. Is it a porn site? Am I gonna be hacked/tracked?

* I need to check if this domain name is not/taken.

* I want to know if URL can contain spaces, or emojis.

* I want to know if I get a reasonably fast response.

* My phone tells me the site access is Forbidden.

Basically, a reasonable answer needs to be also a "Why?". This sets up a logical context for drilling down with an intention to locate something, not just for the drilling down sake.

"Computer, what happens...?"

"Why do you need to load a URL, Dave?"
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I understand what you're saying, but in my experience that's not very robust.

I've often found that an internal function might have a parameter that goes unused in any of the external tests, simply because it's too difficult to devise external tests that will cover every possible internal state or code path or race condition.

So the internal tests are used to ensure complete code coverage, while external tests are used to ensure all "main use cases" or "representative usage" work, and known frequent edge cases.

That doesn't mean the external tests aren't adding value -- they are. But sometimes it's just too difficult to set up an external test to guarantee that a deep-down race condition gets triggered in a certain way, but you can test that explicitly internally.

It's not that anyone is writing tests poorly, it's just that it simply isn't practically feasible to design external tests that cover every possible edge case of internal functionality, while internal tests can capture much of that.

And if your test suite takes 3 hours to run, there are many types of organizational solutions for that... but this is the first I've everd heard of "write less tests" being one of them.
I take a different approach than fail2ban. My sftp servers use a standard port 22 and any time people try to log in, I create an account for them automatically via a cron job in the sftp-only group and a null password. The bots will spend years trying to log in repeatedly every few minutes. I have yet to see them upload anything interesting. Many years ago, bots would upload malware, then try to browse to it on port 80. But no more... These bots just want to get a shell and install malware / c&c tools. Some of them try port forwarding, but I have that restricted for the sftp users.
Telecoms are not hardened against phishing attacks and are some of the dinosaur centric industries. Please, and I ask very nicely, if you work for a tech company, do everything you can to fight implementing SMS as an authentication factor. It not private, nor authenticated, has no delivery guarantees, easily spoofed, easily intercepted, and easily forged.

One only has to look at Jack Dorsey getting jacked to prove this is an inevitability for every single one of your users.
A person associated with Cambridge Analytica used a researcher access and shared the data with the company (which he wasn't supposed to do). Researchers have (had?) more access than developers do.
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