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> The end of protests and a society that works better for everybody, yes.

You don't actually bring that society to the table. That's outside of your power. If anything, you promise that this society will somehow come about if only your demands are met. Kind of like the politicians that might promise almost anything, if only you elected them.

> Progressive candidates, like members of the DSA and politicians they endorse. One thing that has come out of these protests is a rise in progressive candidates, both running at all, and actually winning some primaries. The progressive candidate who won the primary for my state House seat over the long-time Dem incumbent chose to run after the Floyd murder.

Sure, but that only happened because these progressives were compatible with voter behavior. Show me the successful progressive Democrat who also supports completely abolishing all prisons. Well, maybe in Portland.

> The protests themselves have moved the overton window.

Have they really? In the public perception, these protests were against police brutality, which virtually everyone is sympathetic with. If the protests had been perceived as being in favor of dismantling the criminal justice system, virtually nobody would've supported that.

> A single recent example is how public support for protesting athletes has changed.

Supporting or not supporting someone's right to protest has been inside the overton window all along. What hasn't been within the overton window would be a position like "protesting athletes should be imprisoned" or "athletes should all be forced to attend a protest".

Similarly, defunding the police is within the overton window, but abolishing policing outright is not.
Microdosing. I didn't feel much difference at all, but then I should probably mention that I go above and beyond in terms of leading healthy lifestyle, so it's likely my system is already as optimized as it can be.
To my American ears at least, "way of life" used in this sense _does_ encompass all those big, important things. The rhetoric has always been that the [Soviets, Al Qaeda, whoever] hate our "way of life" and want to destroy it, whereas Superman wants to protect "truth, justice, and the American Way". It's a stand-in for freedom, habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, and the rest.

It's a sad time for HK and the world.
I don't understand why can't this be blocked by content blockers. I tried open a .wbn in the original article, and tried to inspect the resources using devtool, it still have files listed there. So content blockers can still block
something like xxx.wbn:/js/ads.js if browser have such api.

Also, I think web bundle can be a Electron replacement too for some use cases, so that some totally offline JavaScript webapp don't have to use Electron.
> .NET Core only supports the three major mainstream OSes, zero support for anything else

This is true, but this level is support for the majority of use cases. I do personally find it very annoying that refuse to support 32-bit Linux tho.

> has the growing pains of a platform where plenty of third parties are yet to release anything on Core

This was true a few years ago, but certainly isn't now. I honestly can't even remember when I last tried to use a library that didn't have dotnet Core support.
Any discussion of public disapproval of King post-1965 has to mention that he had begun to speak on class issues and economic empowerment for all Americans, he was no longer limiting his efforts to civil rights for African-Americans. Class struggle in the 1960s was definitely outside the USA’s Overton window.
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It's a natural tendency for dangerous world.

People generally don't want to go into the conflict. But when they are cornered they begin so seek cover within their flock.

So when an average Joe is told that silence is violence and he is guilty beyond any repair just because he's drinking beer in his backyard instead of fighting for the good cause, the Joe becomes defensive. And since he's not a master of rhetorics, he just takes the "fuck you all" attitude and goes back to his beer - now all wound up and grumpy.

EDIT: punctuation fixes
Only apple can repair your machine. You no longer own your machine, they do.
If the broad population decides you’re done; you’re done. Doesn’t matter what wealth or power you think you’ve got.
The drug never fails to boost my outlook on humanity and restore my natural curiosity and thirst for life. I don’t take it frequently or consistently, but I do take it religiously.
That's one point of view, but others exist.
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Why are you being pedantic? What’s your end goal here?
Maybe this microdosing thing is why so many people write incorrect and vulnerable crypto.
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HSLuv has helped me a lot in creating color scheme.
In a similar way that there are claims that 'Antifa does not exist; it's just an idea.'

Lack of formal organization does not imply lack of existence. Self-identification with a group creates grassroots organizations, with different characteristics than a top-down group, but equally existent.
Oh, I talk to them and ask the caller for information that reveals the company behind the call; then complain via the agency that manages the donotcall lists in my country.

Like oh yeah, double glazing, yeah, send an appraiser to my house, can I have a phone number in case I need to cancel? What company ID badge will the appraiser have?

I don't get many calls through though.
You know, coming from Java and seeing new languages like Go say the same thing except for features that Java had essentially forever is just maddening.
MLK absolutely did not stayed within overton window. He was hated.
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I am also from the area. I wonder how many Pakhtuns are on HN? Haha
Or maybe it's the other way around.
It makes no sense to be looking for child predators on adult sites, by pretending to be teens who are looking for random adult strangers to offer free sex to. Real child predators are not likely to fall for this. Vulnerable people who are curious and confused are the ones falling for this trap.
Here is how to catch real child predators (video below). These people have done it right because they really were interested in catching child predators.
Running sex sting operations on adult sites (to catch child predators) is just a lazy, easy way. It’s much easier to create fake crime, by targeting vulnerable people and fooling them into playing the role, and it’s a fact that it’s all done for money. Doing this has brought them in so much money.

https://youtu.be/dbg4hNHsc_8

Here’s the reality of how they trap vulnerable people. (Watch and listen to the video)

https://floridaactioncommittee.org/watch-oral-arguments-in-2...

Here’s a very interesting article about the cult group that has been behind this scam.

https://americancrimejournal.com/operation-underground-railr...
A couple of data points to look at – and I would argue these are the things at the heart of the conflict – are whether the organization officially supports an particular action, and then whether it’s mainstream members casually support it. I think you’d have a hard time finding a supporter of Black Lives Matter who would go on record as supporting the shootings in Dallas, however it's fairly easy to find support for extrajudicial killings of black Americans.

As numerous people have stated, it's not clear-cut. I support Black Lives Matter and protests supporting them; I also condemn rioting and property destruction, as I think it hurts the cause and innocent bystanders (like small business owners). I'm in favor of having a police department, however I think policing in America is fundamentally unjust and needs serious reform.

There will always be murder, unfortunately, just as there will always be dingalings from all points of the political spectrum running around telling people in public spaces “You can't film here!” We have to condemn those actions regardless of whether it's coming from someone whose political ideology we agree with.
Did they bomb or invade the place? Are they forcing debilitating sanctions onto their peers?
Does this imply that high doses of LSD do not increase BDNF levels?
Might as well be the opposite. :) I added full FOSS support to Linux kernel for one of the PocketBook e-book readers, including a custom driver for the e-ink display. Gave away all the reverse engineered information about the reader for free. After a year, community size is 0.

For this person, having a paywall might even work better psychologically, to get some interested people hooked.

The biggest friction as always, is actually creating something useful in userspace, writing apps, etc. That's waaay more than $20.
> when at first glance fennel looks a lot like clojure e.g. `fn`, square brackets, {} for maps / table literals.

Aren't those mostly inherited from lua and present in a lot of different languages invented before and after clojure?
> local type inference (var) made the language pointlessly verbose for ages

I guess that this is a question of taste.

What for you is "less verbose" for me is more confusing to read. I like to see the types as they complement variable naming. To avoid typing a few letters the code will for ever require me to double check the types with help of the IDE.

I have worked in medium sized corporate companies. The code base is quite big and one of the 20+ development teams may get transferred a project from another team (does not happens super-often, but it happens) or they may create pull-requests for bug fixes (this is more common).

Clear and easy to understand code is life saving. In one of the companies I worked for a Javascript team send a -1 instead of a "-1" the cost ramped up the hundreds of thousands of dollars and our clients were not happy about it. Rollback mechanisms were used as fast as our clients detected revenue problems on their own customers.

And the tests did not got the error as the values is used at the integration layer between our clients and us.

I see safety an increasing value as our programs control more and more money and more and more services. And, I have to admit, I feel more comfortable with more verbose code.
My sister's school did the same thing! It's incredibly detailed http://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_leisure/article_cd2a5c24-804...
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I think this article bolsters his point that Reason is trending toward authoritarian efforts.

A quick look-up of the article's author shows her media appearances tend to be on authoritarian media outlets. She also has some history of trying to raise hostility against reform movements (eg: MeNeither's support of sex predators).
Whether one's internal experience is subjective or objective is not really germane to the book. Nobody can reach into another person's mind and grasp the totality of their experience, which makes it effectively subjective even if it is in principle objective.

What is relevant is that some minds have internal experiences which are correlated, and that correlation points to an objective reality. If I tell you that the sky is pink, and you look outside and see that it is actually black with white polka-dots, are we in different realities, is one of us a solipsist (meaning that the other doesn't even exist), is one of us insane, or are we just in different time zones? One of these explanations is simplest, of course, but the book is about the others.
DEC was definitely the pride of the New England tech scene for most of the 80's and 90's. One of the first multiuser systems I worked with was a VAX 11/730 running VMS.

However, to say they had the "finest operating systems" is a bit of an exaggeration. You ever use Ultrix? It paled in comparison to SunOS. Example: it didn't even support shared libraries, which was a big deal with small disks.
A small minority get violent and the cops prematurely declare a riot? Portland is not the war zone the media claims it is.
I'm unable to find the particular article that made async click for me with Python but I'll try to paraphrase the conceptual idea while trying to ignore language differences as much as I can:

Async function calls work like "normal" until they hit a yield statement. When they do, they yell back up the callstack "hey, I'm going to be waiting for a while, let something else happen while I am".

When that happens, one of two things can happen.
1. Either there's nothing else to do, in which case we wait until something that has yielded to no longer be waiting.
2. Something else is done waiting and it's waiting for its turn. In which case, it's allowed to continue at this point until it either returns or yields again.

In this sense, instead of yielding a value, the function is yielding the stack to something else that can use it while it's waiting.

Async is great for when you're waiting on external processes to complete (database calls, API calls, etc). It's terrible for any CPU heavy tasks because, at least in the Python world, it can still only use a single CPU. In this way, again, specific to Python, it's use-case is much closer to multithreading than multiprocessing.

Another way to think about the machinery behind the scenes is it's a queue of callstacks. If an async call yields the primary stack, its callstack is thrown onto the queue. The queue of callstacks is then processed in order.

Hope that helps! Took me a long while to wrap my head around it and I still struggle reading it some of the time.
You are over simplifying Iraq and Afghanistan. Also misunderstanding the last point: effective military. If someone breaks the peace (9/11) you have to shut it down. We dont have all the secret intel the military had all along, some of it prior to 9/11 easily. Its easy to make assumptions without all the facts but it doesnt fix anything. How many of us would of acted differently if we had the top secret intel the same army had at the time? Theres no way of currently knowing but it wouldnt surprise me if history would not be altered by much.
It's a DMA attack, not necessarily a FW attack. DMA is direct memory access, which is how the attacks worked.
> ideas on how to improve its performance further without making a mess are most welcome.

One approach would be designing the input language for performance. In particular, having statically typed operations. A specialized iadd instruction for values that you are sure you want to treat as integers would save you a lot of indirecting through function pointers. A disadvantage of static typing is that you need to implement type checks if you want to guarantee well typedness.

Another (orthogonal) approach would be to consider a JIT backend. Not one you write yourself, that could definitely be considered "making a mess". But in the past I've had success using LibJIT (https://www.gnu.org/software/libjit/) for speeding up a stack interpreter. In that case, it was a subset of Python bytecode (see https://github.com/gergo-/pylibjit, the code has very probably bitrotted).
My kids built their elementary school in Minecraft. Teachers weren't invited though.
Because it directly reflects how successful the walled garden Apple has built is for developers. It’s attracted great customers, and made them feel very safe and comfortable with purchasing apps.

If you don’t like the ratio, just say App Store sales are 50% higher than Android.

That $35B didn’t exist until Apple created the iPhone and built its walled garden.
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I’m talking more about making moral judgements without adequate information or analysis. I’m not saying that morality is not absolute.
Probably because you don't?

I don't drink beer, I can't see why it tastes better then Grog.
They didn’t research that question, and I don’t see any reason why it would be implied from their findings.
I remember the conversations around 1999, and yes it was pretty well known to be inevitable. Perhaps the surprise is that it took 20 years.
Does recovery from brain damage increase the same growth factor?
Apologies. I forgot about Rand Paul because in all the videos of the incident, he appears unharmed. To him, violence is being surrounded by his constituents.
They already get loaded/notified
for the ads themselves

Because the ads are loaded from their servers. Which makes it easy to block them.

A simple text or image in the website would currently not be tracked by Google. But if they deliver it, they can track it.
> a polished presentation shows (heuristic) that the author has got past the poring of trying to work out what they wanted to say

Yes, although equally sometimes polish can draw attention away from a lack of substantive content
Considering China's relationship with Taiwan, I would say yes, we absolutely knew that China would not allow a Chinese territory to be outside of thr CCP's control indefinitely. If anything, I am surprised it took them this long to decide the rest of the world would simply watch and do nothing of importance about it.
Coinbase uses MongoDB,
Barclays uses MongoDB,
BBVA uses MongoDB,
Capital One uses MongoDB.
Charles Schwab uses MongoDB.
FICO uses MongoDB.
Goldman Sachs uses MongoDB.
HSBC uses MongoDB.
Intuit uses MongoDB.
Uk Inland Revenue uses MongoDB.
UK Dept of Work and Pensions uses MongoDB.

This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to MongoDB's use cases in Financial services. These organisations REALLY use MongoDB for financial data and they are all public references. Relational databases are great for financial data and so is MongoDB.
The difference is that C++ features very much interact with one another in subtle and detrimental ways, so if you are using feature A and a codebase you leverage uses feature B, the interaction of the two can genuinely cause issues. For Python, the extension points are generally hooks into very explicit operations (and some of the symbols you list aren't even extension points).

Hell, the very defaults of C++ will interact badly with other features and proceed to shoot you in the foot, as Chrome somewhat recently reminded us (https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/16...).

You need an 8x6 matrix just to know what the compiler will or won't generate (https://i.stack.imgur.com/b2VBV.png) and then you need to know exactly what the defaults will do and whether that breaks your object entirely and you need to override those defaults.
Its ironic that a flag designed to support a land rights movement ends up in a situation where the indigenous peoples are fighting for the rights to it. Is there some deeper reason behind why the designer of the flag would claim copyright and try and make money off the flag - maybe to prevent some other sort of exploitation? Otherwise that seems like a pretty greedy and directly hypocritical thing to do.
There were a lot of promises.

There were people making noise about China. But in general China was off most people’s radar.

The Olympia’s they hosted was when I personally realized China was a big deal.
I was aware of all those things when I made the original statement, thank you.
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I was just 15 at the time, but being from the third world I was utterly perplexed. I was like “why would anyone want that?”
Paul Vixie once said that the definition of a nation was once its borders, then its airspace, and now its data. With each nation increasingly becoming hostile to the free flow of information, its hard not to conclude the nation state is still alive and well.

A lot of this article is also the elucidation of 'The Davos Man' and their supreme desire to usurp the borders of nations in the pursuit of capital
> wake up and realize that China is not messing around

reality is, just a year ago, no one would have believe an outbreak like covid in China can become a worldwide pandemic that hit this HARD and ended all of our way of lives

it's too often we are blind and ignorant to incoming dangers
I’m not sure why people are downvoting this. Erowid is a treasure trove of first hand experiences for a huge variety of illicit substances. It’s been around forever, and you can, if I recall, generally find good, pragmatic advice on how to approach a given drug.
But what kind of an effect does this have on someone new learning the language? It seems to me like it would make it slightly harder to learn and get used to.
US Military thoughts on handling civil disturbance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616564
(plus FEMA)
If you want to draw a parallel to Christianity in this way then we can focus on what the organization does post-crisis.

A self identifying Christian who kills people in the name of Christianity is vocally condemned by other self identifying Christians and many would rush to say that they were mentally ill.

If BLM wants to not be lumped in with extremists then supporters of Black Lives Matter need to vocally and unequivocally condemn extremist and their acts that do not align with a supporter’s views of the group’s objectives. I have never seen a BLM supporter credibly call Micah Xavier Johnson mentally ill or an extremist. Extremist actions by BLM supporters are never condemned but rather excused by pointing to police brutality or institutional racism as being the root cause of the bad actor’s actions. While external forces may shape an extremist, it is the extremist who pulls the trigger. Personal responsibility means something and if the group won’t cast out the extremist then the group condones the actions.

Additionally, there is a key problem with your analogy: Christianity does not purport to be an organic, grass roots, and headless organization. Christianity flows from the church and it has a defined organization. It has spokespeople. It has explicit leadership.
Many people in the US (if they can afford one) will continue to drive a car, RealID or not. You're in the small minority...
In the last decade :
- Russia annexed Crimea;
- Turkey took control of most of the Syrian land across its borders;
- Israel continuously colonised bits of Palestinian land;
- China is now taking political control of Hong Kong;
- UAE forces tool over the Socotra Islands;

The West's reactions so far have been ranging from ineffectual economic sanctions to completely ignoring it. I would expect similar "annexations" by nationalist/totalitarian states to continue in the future.
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You can achieve this with Amna! (disclaimer: I built it). The described sticky notes approach can actually fall flat on two levels. One is that notes lack order. We learned this from our user interviews. Users lose track of post it notes all the time. Things just “slip”. The other side effect is that it can be overwhelming to have a bunch of notes everywhere. You’re back at square 1 if notes exist in the apps. Rather, the app must exist in the note (idk if that makes sense, I can clarify)

With Amna, you start with a task, and for each task start pulling information. Email is just one of many sources of action. Everything from a GitHub PR to Slack Message is an action waiting to be taken and notes to write. A todo app that connects everything better can be really powerful. It becomes the point of entry to get running. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780781)
This "way of life" was unsustainable anyway, because of the property prices and the de facto feudal system with the tycoons on top. You can rage at the red flag all you want, but ideology has nothing to do with it. HK life was almost unbearable before all this.
There's a time and place for that conversation and it isn't this.
As always, Berkeley did it first (and held the official graduation on it!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4f-Jc2kZrA