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> They have him in their crosshairs, you and I are lucky it's not our turn. Why is it Assange's? Maybe to chill future dissent and fact based journalism, maybe this executive branch has something specific to fear.

Its obvious why they go after every single leaker, to prevent anyone else from following their example. 'You want to be a hero? You will end up like Snowden, or Assange or tortured in prison outside of US soil.
You can just creep under it but it’s close to the limit (unless you add cold gas thrusters of course). Engineering explained has a couple of really good videos covering the physics and math. Here’s one about how the new roadster can possibly achieve 1.9 seconds. https://youtu.be/9Uca_jNh2M4
https://youtu.be/4PRi4B1APj0
Most of 21st century Fields medal winners are IMO medalists, so that seems to contradict your hypothesis.
Terence Tao, Venkatesh, Miryam were all famously young and/or good contestants.
Your response is extremely frustrating.
At the time they gave this advice, it hadn't yet hit NYC, and the scope and speed of the future outbreak in the states was unknown ; in late February/early March it's more than reasonable to think that, like swine flu, the states' response would contain the outbreak to hospitals and therefore masks a) weren't necessary for the day-to-day, b) could give a false sense of protection to the people wearing them, and c) were best suited to be used by professionals.

Of course, within two weeks, NYC was shut down and people were wearing makeshift masks and the advice was updated.

To say that Dr. Fauci, of all people, was lying to the public instead of giving the best advice available at the time is an affront to his decades-long career of public service.
Ahh, sorry but I'm not going to read anymore from you here.

I've pointed out undeniable real life parallels where things might not go the way you're thinking. If you can't accept that reality, then I can't really help you.

I guess you can enjoy having that last word though!
I wouldn't be surprised if all the amazing things he's done was during manic phases, in which case I'd understand it if he were wary of medicating his condition.
If Nikita stepped out in the real world and tried to get other humans to do their job right and recorded how often that gets screwed up, he'd run right back to his computer, because at least with computers, you can eventually get it right, with humans, you are always at the mercy of someone having a bad day, being born an idiot, being distracted, etc, etc...

It's just life and that's how it goes :)

When you measure everything in relation to how you would've handled it, you get posts like these. The more different you are from an average human being, the more frustrated/bewildered you will be, until you have the epiphany that others are not like you and cease expecting them to be.

One question to ask is, if everything is so broken, surely you can become rich through this massive opportunity to improve upon it and then proceed to solve a lot of the frustrations you have with money? Go on then :)
Re: audio, I've the same struggle, but settled on Quodlibet [1] since a year or two.

[1] https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet
But did you like and subscribe?
Did anyone, because if someone did their time at the start wasn't wasted.
If literally all Facebook did was what you describe nothing would change about their effect on elections and public discourse.
> I like that I can dip my toes in and out of the Photoshop ecosystem without having to shell out hundreds up front.

I agree, that part is nice. However, once I've dipped in a toe and know I want to OWN it, I can't. The non-saas option is gone.

So now I have a perverse incentive to argue against you, for my own sake. Because the more people like you enter a market, the less likely that market is to provide a single purchase product.
They arise very naturally, but unfortunately it still doesn't seem to give an intuitive geometric example of objects that are described by spinors. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00034... (which can be accessed via sci-hub).
Day 14, Assange Defense
This is pretty mature technology, and like most mature technologies, there aren't going to be a lot of 50% improvements any more.

Look at CPUs or the Internal Combustion Engine. After 120+ years, it still improves, but you're looking at single-digit percentage points if that.

I'm not aware of a lot of things that could magically improve browser performance, but if you do, you have a great opportunity for a unicorn startup.
Always Home Cam: Amazon's robot drone flying inside our homes is a bad idea
Helium started out as a local IOT play but realized that nobody wanted their custom radio stuff. So now they're doing mesh-something-with-blockchain.
You don't have a high opinion of the LibreWolf team.

Did you know that I can still use a web browser from the last decade to surf websites? Yup.

Even if FF dies, the codebase is opensource and continue to be developed.
Perpetuating myth and propaganda that even the US government doesn't say about Bitcoin, I see.

Did you pay attention to the recent Bloomberg article about cryptocurrencies being the best gaining asset class of 2020, or the article about the $2 trillion dollars worth of laundered money being done using traditional USD and banks? And how much money was laundered through Bitcoin again? A money that is very hard to hide. Bitcoin has smart contracting so it would appear you're just regurgitating things you've read rather than reaching into an in-dept knowledge on this subject.
> engineers care about quality; customers care about the fastest way of solving their problem

Almost all customers care about quality. The problem is that many customers have only very limited information about products, so they have a hard time judging quality vs. competitors before (or even after) purchase.

This reveals a general problem with the market: it doesn't select for quality. Otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. The market is really good at producing cheap crap. So the truth is, yes, engineers have to care about quality. The motivation for quality has to come from pride in your own work, not from outside market forces. If you care about quality, then you have to strive for that over quantity, and also charge sustainable prices instead of trying to lowball. You may not be the market leader, but there are many profitable niches. Some customers are definitely willing to pay for quality.
It worked wonders on 9/11.
The Euro and Social Identity
Neither Maglev nor GFE are usually tied to a specific service nowadays, so it could still be either of them. Way back when, some teams or services such as Checkout had to run their own private pool of GFEs. Given Urs' mention of backends, I am slightly inclined toward GFE.
As far as I know, it is not even possible for me to rent a car completely without insurance and thereby risk having to pay for the full value of the car. :)

So it is really about what kind of deductible you will have vs. what you pay for it.

If I save 100 EUR 10 times renting a car and I expect to have one damage costing me 1000 EUR every 10 times I rent a car - it is neutral EV.

If you can't afford the "hit" of a large deductible if an accident happes, then it would make sense to pay more here and now to reduce or eliminate that risk.

I have saved thousands of euros over the years by electing to go with the included insurance, which typically is around 1000-1500EUR deductible, if I remember correctly.

So if I crash my rental car the next three times I rent a car and have to pay 3x1000EUR deductible, I will still be in the green.

Last time I picked an upgraded insurace, it was because we were a group that rented together, and I didn't want to risk friendsships over who might have dented the car etc. :)
Google settles shareholder suits over sexual harassment claims
It’s not any harder than using an ftp account with curlftpfs as a Dropbox replacement!
Next step in cheap but effective is building a small waveguide for your arc lighter -- probably easier to target what you want vs the point source you have now.

Can basically be a few pieces of carefully sized tinfoil, or some copper wire with copper clad soldered around it.

Also, the term "Jugaad" for Indian macgyverism is excellent!
THAT's why red liquorice is better
The key part is an initial, mandatory stint of 3 years in solitary. I'm skeptical that an EU country would do that.
The shortcuts thing stung me at first too, but I pushed through it and I'm glad I did. There were two places I used Mac-style, super-key bindings; text navigation and copy/paste. For copy/paste, ctrl really is fine. I don't use it much and it was just a matter of retraining muscle memory.

For navigation (end/beginning of line/word) I just learned Vim bindings, which are better anyway and work on any OS for pretty much every text editor.
Whatever you have to tell yourself to relieve your guilt.
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None of the doctors quoted in the article seem to be infectious disease experts.

The very first doctor quoted is Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. You might want to reconsider that "None".
Unfortunately, this is not possible on their consumer OS branch (unless you hack the system, but I have found that it often makes the OS unstable because its in an unsupported system state). For me, our IT manages the systems. They get to decide when the systems update. I have a test box that regularly sees months of uptime.

https://i.imgur.com/XN2Hjia.png
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>I was also in the Philippines, and I was able to eat quite well for my 3 months there.

This right here tells me that you were not living in or even among the truly impoverished individuals I mentioned. Not a single family I've referred to is "able to eat quite well". Do you honestly believe anyone would eat the rancid trash strays running around their tarp/salvaged wood hovel if they had any other option? Your inability to accept the reality of this kind of desperation and suffering tells me how much of this true compassion you actually feel.
I wonder whether the rat gives a rat's ass about the award.
I used macos, I was forced to restart and update.
I used windows, I was forced to restart and update.
I use kubuntu now, and I haven't turned my computer off(unless you count sleep state) in a few weeks, sometimes i've gone months.
Both operating systems feel slow to me now that I've used linux. I was apprehensive to use it at first, and feel kinda guilty evangelizing it, but if you have these problems, I think this is your solution.
I'm mostly sympathetic to the decision to leave Gnome: I myself abandoned KDE after the 3 -> 4 transition and then Gnome after the 2 -> 3 transition. I just never found the Unity desktop pleasant to use, so I ended up running tiling window managers for a while.
People underestimate what a bad virus can do to your health. A few years ago when a strong version of the flu was going around (winter 2017/spring 2018), I got got either that flu or something similar. I developed a extremely strong cough the day of getting it, along with a high fever of 103-104. I went to the emergency room as I felt I was going to die, and the week after was afraid to go to sleep as I felt I may not wake up. My heart felt extremely strange and my resting pulse which was normally low/mid 40's jumped to consistently above 100 or higher. I was out of work(engineer at a desk job) for 3 weeks. I did not really get over it until 2 months later where I felt better. Even after the 2 months I would feel extremely weak and had what I thought was low blood sugar(levels were fine). This was not covid but it shows what a virus can do to an extremely healthy person and the lingering effects after.
Why are you commenting as "I" in response to a comment directed at __blockcipher__?
The one thing that always drove me to keep playing when I had more time was the sweet nectar of being part of a high-performing team. When everything clicked together and you knew that you could rely on your teammates during the ebbs and flows across lanes.

I miss those days.
I don't know if that's really a either/or question with scheduling timespans and due dates, and warrants a separate app.

When I add a task to Todoist, the suggested due dates are "Today", "Tomorrow" and "Next week", which already fills my need for rough grained due dates (since as a procrastinator I rarely even think about next month or next year in terms of todos). I highly suspect that it's not the only to-do list app that does it like that.
> Why does the ceo pay need to go down?

Because salary X4 didn't result in financial performance X4, just 250 people fired.
Covid-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew
Pretty sure you don't know how many JVM implementations are out there since around 2000.

By the way does V8 already handle TB sized heaps with 1ms pause?

Or is able to scale down into embedded devices with hundred KB, while respecting real time constraints?

Or able to have an implementation in JS itself?

Or does V8 cache JIT code across sessions and improves it via additional PGO data gathered across the sessions history?

I am not speaking of the same implementation here, rather a taste of what is out there on the Java world.
It's been tough nailing down the optimal time, but right now what works best is taking 300ug of melatonin at 10:20pm and falling asleep at 11:50.

In the past I tried various different times ranging from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. Even taking it at a suboptimal time is better than not taking it at all.

There are also a few other things I do to keep my sleep schedule on track:

1) I heavily use bluelight filters on my computers and phone in the evening. Redshift/gammastep on Linux gives me full control.

2) I have low blue light lights which I use in the evening [0], then I switch to fully red bulbs in the hour before going to sleep.

3) I have a super bright daylight LED lamp which turns on automatically at 8:30am, a few minutes before I wake up. This is my solution to automate light therapy [1].

All of this combined lets me function mostly like a normal person. Hope some of that helps.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=2000k+bulb

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy
Filesystems are not good library managers. Same reason Gmail created labels: Data can be categorized and sorted on many dimensions.

If it works for you, great - but anything can play music / display a photo. A good library system is golden.
Lower memory consumption too. This is good news, I am worried for the future of Mozilla and Firefox.
Apple to let Facebook online events temporarily avoid 30% cut
I'm sure it's clearly stated in the terms of service that they sat down to read before starting their vacation. /s
So a single person decides they don’t like my comment and now it’s faded out where nobody will bother reading it. I think it’s important so I am asking for the upvotes to not dip below zero because I would like as many people to read it as possible whether they upvote or not... it was a similar comment that literally saved my life.
My view is rather different. Written Chinese does not "belong" to Mandarin or any other spoken Chinese language, but is its own entity.

While the mainland-China version of simplified Chinese is based around Mandarin, written Chinese is most definitely not Mandarin. 裏 is not 里. 只 is not 隻. 后 is not 後. They might sound the same in modern Mandarin but that is where the similarity ends. Those are characters with entirely different meanings and often different pronunciations in various forms of Chinese.

I believe that alone makes the assertion that traditional Chinese is "just another character set" as controversial as calling English "just another Newspeak".
But the guy is a UI/UX consultant!
Cool, yeah. Would love if you contributed that. So off the top of my head we would want to get all output sinks and display them in the GUI and, when the user switches, detect the number of channels they support and live configure to that. We would need to update the null sink, sample_spec struct, and latency. This would live in equalizer/pretty.c so that's a good place to poke around.

Email me at kevin@segfault.fun if you have any questions. The pulseaudio C API can be a bit... opaque :)
Yeah, I should have said "subwavelength" structures, since I really didn't specify what "small" meant, but thought it was getting too technical.
PHP is an... interesting... language to implement. The de facto standard PHP interpreters have become very fast over time. It's been a long time since I measured HHVM, but it always used to have very good warm-up time. I always felt it was a bit of a pity that no-one took on HippyVM (PHP in RPython https://github.com/hippyvm/hippyvm): it implemented a very large chunk of the language, had decent performance, but still some low-hanging fruit to improve (I had some fun making fairly substantial performance improvements to some aspects of it). It would be interesting to compare HippyVM and Graalphp once they implement equivalent chunks of the language, especially if someone takes on maintainership of HippyVM!
> This is only true when playing with others attempting to play optimally.

It's also true against someone who is playing an exploitative strategy.
Agreed. There's more than a few topics where I self censor. It isn't about the points. Most of these things are either beating a dead horse or the quality of the responses aren't worth engaging with. Some are just too contentious. Other times, I just can't resist.

It is disconcerting to see the popular or establishment view presented with different standards of evidence, sources or logic.

I'd leave "I disagree" as an option in this hypothetical. The down-voting user would have it as a shadow vote, without impacting the comment.

For scientifically inaccurate, I think they should be prompted to reply with a refutation.

Needs elaboration should just open a reply with "Could you please elaborate on..."
Oh, how wondrously conveniend for some people in politics.
Yeah, that's fair, I usually don't look at them in a list. I know they show up in Google Calendar, so maybe you can view them their? Regardless, this is a great idea for a Todo app feature.
> I think the difference is that the entire software/hardware stack is a world created entirely by humans, untouched by "reality" for the purposes of all these annoyances, so it feels like we should be able to wrangle it better after so many decades.

Humans, as the makers of these systems, are part of that reality, which was not created by us. The reality is that we are great apes writing precise machine instructions with our general intelligence that was not purpose built for being that precise but selected for survival. Our cognitive machinery cannot exhaustively predict all the possibilities of failure of what we write, if we are working in teams, we have transfer most of our technical ideas still through natural language, in a combinatorially increasing manner as the team size increases etc. None of this is user hostile, it is just human fallibilities and limitations in play. And since we can't alter our cognitive capacity drastically, we can only make more machines against these (e.g. unittests) with their own limitations. I think the scale of what we have been achieving despite these limitations are just fantastic.

If anything users are becoming too egocentric, expecting the world to conform to their comfort, with a dash of construal level fallacy, underestimating from a mile away how easy it would be to write bug free programs with perfect designs in a real world, by real people, with real budgets etc.
As someone with a SaaS software startup, this is something I have to remind myself from time to time. Particularly because when you're so close to the product, you're intensely aware of the bugs and issues.

It's comforting to know people do have a tolerance for minor bugs and issues.

We were pleasantly surprised how much positive feedback we'd get, even when encountering bugs though and I believe overestimated how "perfect" it needed to be for the first release. From experience I've learned it's much better to ship it and improve it with incremental updates rather than to try and wait for "perfection".
UChicago biological anthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged on “Colorblind” parenting
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The Asur: A study of primitive iron-smelters

An excellent account on this subject focused on the life of a small population who achieved state of the art in this thousands of years ago.
It's not, by a mile.

Feel free to correct me and kindly point out the agreed definition between the practices you mention.
Maybe ten years ago I remember playing bluffing games like "Werewolf" and "Mafia" on IRC, where a bot would randomly assign you to be a wolf or resistance and you'd talk it up in the chat.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf capitalized on the "Old Spice Guy" ads and had Isaiah Amir Mustafa narrate in an app to facilitate in-person play.

Among Us is really just a continuation along this series of games -- except you actually have to go around a 2D map and complete toy tasks to accomplish a goal. If you're not into playing games, you can watch some folks on Twitch playing it to get a sense of how the dynamics work.
They have an aggressive and dangerous recommendation algorithm that has proven easy to game by bad actors.
I did and my results don't match with the parent's comments. Hopefully, the parent will enlighten us with their thesis on the topic.
> RISD-trained painter

Not super relevant, but it's funny that the guy who has famously criticized credentialism [1] also thinks the best way to describe his artistic achievements is "studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti" [2].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html
I'm not sure what else you call a massive protest where only a VERY small handful of people are inciting violence? Unless, of course, we want also want to talk about "lawful police"...
It’s not clear to me whether that’s true on a larger scale. Obviously, innocent people die in war and that’s regrettable and to be minimized. But innocent people also suffer from the instability and insecurity caused by terrorism. Note that while most countries opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan, opinion polling in India—which shares a border with that country—showed a majority of people there supported military action against the Taliban.

Note that leaving terrorism unchecked also has a cost. I agree folks tend to have a perception of terrorism risks that outweighs the actual cost in lives. But while the psychology is in peoples’ heads, the dollar impact is real. People don’t want to invest in an area where terrorism isn’t a risk. People with means and opportunities leave such areas, creating brain drain. The existence of these unstable places like Afghanistan imposes a real cost on the people in surrounding countries.

Innocent people will die in any significant military action. And if avoiding those casualties is the overriding concern, then you should never engage in non-defensive military action. And that’s certainly a very defensible position, but I’m not sure it’s always the correct one.
> The BBC is not government funded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...

But you probably knew this already.

> and it regularly, in fact constantly, reports things that do not benefit the government

And? I said it was government funded "state propaganda". Government != state. Also, the best propaganda superficially "reports" on government to create an illusion of impartiality. It great a duping the dumb masses.
I don't like your solution and it definitely wouldn't fly in the US but your statement of the problem is correct. This isn't a "Facebook", "Twitter", or "Reddit" problem -- they just happen to be the companies with enough users for the problem to surface. I'm not really sure what people expected to happen in a digital pseudo-public square.
(spoiler!)
Answer: By burning a lot of trees.
Any software application has two states: "doesn't work" and "barely works".