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zzt is how epic started. tim sweeny making an open, moddable game as shareware. it is a game that can’t easily exist on modern phone oses because of how they are locked down. kids would not be able to share their mods with friends.
Interestingly, some well-intentioned “ban the box” policies backfired in terms of racial justice in hiring. These campaigns managed to outlaw the “are you a felon?” question on job applications in an attempt to make it easier for felons, many of whom belong to racial minorities, to get a fair shot at employment based on their skills. Unfortunately this caused employers to hire even fewer members of those minority groups. Apparently without the box, employers see minority hires as an unacceptable risk.

The world is a disappointing place sometimes.
I've been looking for something like this and unfortunately have found nothing quite like HN.

There's /biz/ which has some decent discussions from time to time, but being 4chan is also filled with trolls, shilling, and misinformation.

Seems like it's a good opportunity for someone inclined to create such a community.
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That makes even less sense.

Further anecdata: I bought those coins and withdrew those same coins from those exchanges first.

Even at banks when I've withdrawn more than $10,000 cash, and have made $10,000+ wire transfers, no one cares.

Where are you getting these ideas from?
> unofficial patches made to shore up any systems too embedded to move off XP still

Too embedded to move off XP but they're going to install a home brew version of WinXP? Extremely doubtful.
Reminds me of all-optical diffractive deep learning. It's such a cool concept and really made me rethink computing.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6406/1004.full
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I don't think it's fair or wise to tell people this, do you any data to support this claim?

I don't know any career track companies that don't do background checks, there are too many services now that make them insanely easy to do, that it's basically uploading a resume and/or filling out the form and you can get results back the same day.
Definitely – just changes it from “critical - the world is on fire” to “major”.
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a very good point. That goes for GNU, too.
Although many of the APL derived languages changed their syntax by removing the fancy symbols. I'm not disagreeing, though: some people like them, some don't, and that's why people use j, k, and APL.
> The financial sector appears to be the one sector where US authorities actually do a good job to stamp out crime

Yeah, they're really great at that /s. It wasn't just last month that it was revealed that US banks laundered $2T. How many people got arrested for that? The Fed even said the disclosure of the banks internal reports was the crime.
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I'm Brazilian and live in the UK.

I constantly hear jokes about football. Having played football and being a person with "two left feet", I have heard numerous jokes about that, and about how I must not be Brazilian, since I don't command the ball like Ronaldinho.

I'm fine with that. It's playful. It's fun. I make jokes back and everybody is a friend.

There's also the Samba jokes and stereotypes. They are fun. They are ice breakers and can make an awkward social interaction more fluent.

You know what offends me? When people from the USA call their country "America", like they own the whole continent.

Amerigo Vespucci, the man whose name served as the basis for naming the so called "new world", didn't even arrive in the northern part of the continent, much less in what is now the USA.

Cripstopher Columbus, who arrived in the continent even before Vespucci, didn't arrive there either, but at Guanahani, in the Bahamas.

When America was named America, there was no USA.

Calling that country America is the equivalent of uniting a few European countries, calling them United States of Europe and then culturally pressuring the rest of the continent (and the world) into calling them Europe, pretending the rest of the continent never had that name.

The cultural, military, pollitical and economical power play that the USA have been imposing on the rest of the continent since at least the 1940s is by far worse than any stereotype joke that you might have heard in your workplace.

I was born in America. The USA can never take that away from me.

Uncivilised is to impose your views upon the rest of the world with zero regard to cultural differences.

As my late grandfather would say: "don't judge others as though they are yourself."

Edit: Even before I posted, I was aware this was going to be downvoted. That's fine. It's not easy to admit you're not as holy as you might think. It's far easier to use your own power to crush the "subordinate class" rather than actually acknowledge them. Downvote away. I will still be an American, born in America.
Dang. That sounds great. I hope to one day start my own consulting firm.
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Was that Sam Reed? Damn.

I wonder if the fact that he continually provoked trump... while running an illegal exchange... from within the united states... had anything to do with the charges today? [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/strml_?lang=en
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I took Jory Brigham's TWW guild Hank Chair class, he said something like 30% of his shop time is spent sanding.

For me, finishing is not as fun as joinery; but patience during the sanding and finishing is absolutely essential to a good result.
The thing that struck me most about the colorized video was how every single person in it was wearing a hat. I did not notice this in the B&W video for some reason.
It is not "somehow ok". You either overlooked the last paragraph or decided to ignore it:

> "As the request for citation is not a legal requirement this is acceptable under GPLv3 and cleared with Richard M. Stallman himself. Thus it does not fall under this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#RequireCitation"

It is not the "chat with Richard Stallman" that made it OK. It is simply not a requirement, but a request for citation.
Is it only me that finds the article quite poorly written? There is no lead throughout the different section, the exact same ideas are repeated over and over, etc.

I think che content could have been reduced to something like 50% of its original length.
Honestly, I'm not sure they do a whole lot of good.
at their volume keeping the thing online is an accomplishment imo
Way back when, tiny CRT radar screens were very dim. To look at them, there was a dark, tubular screen that was shaped at the end to more or less fit the face.

When you put your face there, you cut external light out from that end and the tube part stopped light from coming in at the sides. The bottom end of the tube was blocked off except for the screen itself. So you could look at the screen inside a tiny 'room' of complete darkness.
Sure thing if you provide multiple billions in value no problem :)
You don't. You build the ability to roll back to a good state.
> Much of the footage used in the film is borderline unwatchable without the post-processing used

That's an interesting commentary on how much technology has advanced, and how we have become so desensitized to it. Consider that when silent films first started, the movie of a train coming right at the camera scared the audience so much that they ran out of the theatre to get out of the way of the train, IIRC.

I agree on your point regarding engaging audiences. Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk probably taught more people about WW2 than many classes or books.
I always found this to be a waste of time.

Senators and congresspersons ask a question, the executive starts to answer, the senator/congressperson interrupts because they have to move on to the next question for lack of time. They then yield. Repeat. Many questions asked, none answered.

Few things are as idiotic as this format, even taking into account the pharisaic nature of it all.
We've doubled the speed at which the Rust node calls the Tezos protocol
Also the one time 200-400k down payment on a house.
This is why people who really own these companies appoint nominal CEOs.
Honestly, this is a reasonable question. I'm not really sure, and I think this is a gap in terminology (or even tooling), as I think we both sort of stumbled into the other day.

I want to say no? If I were to reframe the question as a slow function that I had to call, I wouldn't call it IO bound, so I think not - the fact that there's IO in between the two components is more of a confounding factor in profiling than an actual performance limitation.
That doesn't really contradict what he said. O(n) where n is a positive constant is O(1).
> How can you be so smart to get the position and

Sometimes it's more about talking with a self confident voice, and body language, so others think you're smart
> The United States’ lawsuit did not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution of Permanent Record [...] Rather [...] the government sought to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden

Gotta love America. We're not going after you for whistleblowing on systematically illegal activity by the NSA. We just want your money.
He is not a good guy. He doesn’t believe in climate change (and actively funded campaigns against it while his company speeded towards bankruptcy [1]), and is deeply committed to coal [2]. This article humorously demonstrates his hypocrisy, and his life’s work (as a coal company executive and ardent champion of the fuel) and beliefs backfiring on him in spectacular fashion.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/climate/murray-energy-cli...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/a-coal-executives...
> Steam is justified in doing it.

Maybe in cases where the fraud is proven. After the consumer buys tons of stuff on an online store, the company shouldn't be able to just delete their accounts unilaterally just because of one chargeback. There's a huge power imbalance here and consumers need protection.

> Their refund policy is generous.

What they offer is the bare minimum really. And they had to be condemned by a court of law in order to implement that policy. They also suffered zero consequences for years of consumer exploitation with their sales plus lack of refunds strategy in order to trap impulsive buyers. It's not a coincidence that Steam sales became a lot less generous after the refunds policy was implemented.
Using a screen name of the opposite sex is a good way to help hide one's identity. I wouldn't read into it.
> Speaking only for NL here, but I think the regulation is the same EU-wide.

In Germany the doctor only certifies that the employee is unable to carry out their work duties. The reason why is a secret between doctor and patient.

In Finland the doctor sends the ICD code to the employer.

So there is no EU-wide regulation. IIRC GDPR says that data is protected unless the exchange is regulated by a law or the subject has consented. (It's been a while I read it...) Laws are national.
Totally. I've seen similar things. I've also seen thread contention (such as on a connection pool) that can look a lot like a slow database query/ an "IO bound" workflow. I think profiling is just really hard and lots of code tends to be very inefficient at actually performing IO.
I'm not convinced that spiking behavior is all that's needed to really emulate what's going on in our neurons. Modern hardware designs are not really amenable to replicating the number or structure of synapses that we have, muchless the extremely complicated biochemistry that controls how and when they fire. It's good to see progress being made, but we really need to tone down the hyperbole in the popular scientific press.
It should be considered the same, because for all practical purposes, that's how the end users treat it - and it's not unreasonable on their behalf. If Nintendo wants a proprietary charger, they're welcome to use a proprietary port. But standards exist for a reason, and diluting them like that should be heavily regulated.
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Having seen the cafe pre-pandemic, I am amazed to say they have survived as long as they have. IIRC they charge between 25$ and 30$ for less than an hour inside the cafe. It's a cool concept, and I get that rent in San Francisco is expensive, but I find it difficult to believe that that price point is sustainable even here.

Edit: Apparently that price is now for 40 minutes inside the cafe: https://www.kitteasf.com/faqs/
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Not only felonies have degrees here, they have classes and graduate eventually.
Since they're asking the heads of companies rather than their operations people, the senators who are running the show won't even get a good show.

Maybe we're going to get an awkward and idiosyncratic question about Rust as the highlight of the day (which HN loves despite the fact that the question came from nowhere and went nowhere). Or maybe the head of Google will teach senators how to use their iPhones, just like last time.
Idiopathic means we looked at the things we know how to diagnose and it wasn’t those. The exclusion process is an elimination process.

Test for all the plausible causes, and if there’s nothing left you shrug and call it idiopathic. So either he was tested, or the doctors thought his symptoms were very atypical and didn’t run the test.

(I know two people and a pet with idiopathic something or other. In the cat’s case, the treatment was the same as the least invasive treatments for the common cause. The humans are just SOL.)
12 years ago, on HN: "The memristor—the functional equivalent of a synapse—could revolutionize circuit design"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335
At the risk of sounding partisan on HN: the really scary difference here is that left-wing violence is widely denounced by our nation's leaders. On the other hand, POTUS couldn't even muster the strength to properly denounce white supremacy let alone far-right militia groups during the debates. BTW, for those that haven't watched the debates (which I personally wouldn't recomend doing while sober), the transcript doesn't do it justice here as the president's entire tone and demeanor changed as soon as he was asked the question.

I say this because in our media ecosystem (and on HN) pushing a both sides story is popular. But "both sides are bad" breeds the idea of "all of politics is broken" and so I might as well not participate. Or alternatively: "the other side is just as bad" and so anything I do is justified.

In order to start de-polarizing, politically speaking, we have to stop seeing stories that don't push have a both sides spin as being partisan and speak to the facts of the case. In particular, we can't see facts as political and dismiss them out of hand if they don't agree with our ideology or the article we read doesn't get enough of a jab in at our political rivals. It is possible to both hold partisan opinions and respectfully debate and disagree with people that differ from you as long as you stick to that type of principle.
> every decent erlang book or tutorial I've ready, from Armstrong's book[1] to Learn You Some Erlang...

What a coincidence! I just tweeted about how you can get it and 12 other various programming books for just $8 now: https://twitter.com/AlchemistCamp/status/1311796404830892032
This point is worth noting:

> (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem.

The design has molten fluoride salt circulating in a strong magnetic field. Molten salts, unlike molten metals, have low (but not zero) conductivity.

But the motion will still induce a voltage drop across the salt. If the walls are metal, there is the possibility of galvanic corrosion due to this potential. And there's the possibility that radiation could enhance this corrosion.
I see Bob Murray is personifying the old tycoon motto: socialism for me, rugged capitalism for thee.
They could have excluded that specific cause, perhaps? Odd, though, since "idiopathic" means "we don't know why this happened".
Brilliantly satirized by Mitchell and Webb:

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There’s a myth about California’s sky high taxes. Looking at the overall tax burden (sales, property, income, etc) as a percent of income, CA doesn’t really even crack the top 10 states.
Wow that sound a bit stressful to have to think about such things.

If you don't mind, I wonder:

>the lab manager was suspicious of me appearing to not be doing any work sometimes

How did you notice / find out he was suspicious?
I'd imagine the book is constitutionally protected speech, whereas profiting from a crime isn't.
If we don't then there are only two end states for people sentenced for a crime: permanent incarceration or the death penalty. People who can't get jobs, can't rent a place to live, and have no hope of improving their situation have much higher rates of re-offending. Duh. Why wouldn't they?

Do you imagine the victim of a violent crime wants to see the offender crushed by society to such an extent that they offend again? Do you imagine the victim wants the offender's children to suffer as well? How many generations of pain and suffering should be imposed? How many more victims will that spawn? How much misery should we be willing to impose and on how many people?
Young people think they are clued into privacy, but it's all the old geezers who don't want to learn to use electronics who create demand for the the paper option. I wonder what will happen after they have died off.
Good point about ancient aliens. I feel like that is the Walmart of science shows. But the same trend towards "edutainment" is also what brought us Neil deGrasse Tyson, someone who can be entertaining and didactic at the same time.
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Ugh. This is inevitably going to be based on a complete misunderstanding of section 230. Section 230 says that platforms cannot be held liable for the speech they allow on their platforms. Repealing it would only lead to more restrictions on what people can post. We should expect more of our Senators, but I can't say I'm surprised.

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
As long as the originals (as much original data as possible) are archived, anything additional is not a problem.
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Roughly 10%
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You don't refrain from going after criminals because they're incompetent.
> What I care is about project costs, meeting deadlines and acceptance criteria.

Are you sure you're on the right website? :D
I have a lot of sympathy for that if you're doing it for fun.

It's like buying a romantic cabin in the woods to be cut off from society to write a novel.

But then you learn it gets mobile reception these days and your friend asks you why you haven't installed a Powerwall and solar yet?

If you're attempting to do it commercially, that's a different thing.
In what way will this actually cost Snowden money? Presumably he had already received some royalties already? Is his publisher US based or elsewhere? Will that affect whether they can actually take these royalties?
DT fusion reactors require 6Li, which is 7.6% of natural lithium. The other 92.4% is 7Li. This "depleted lithium" would work in batteries just fine.
These are informative too. I had no idea that Murray was so publicly visible and involved in politics during the last two presidencies.
The 'crime' in this case is violation of the non-disclosure without submitting for pre-publication review.

The book may or not contain sensitive information.

It probably does not, otherwise, the government would be pushing to suppress it.

It could simply be a legal decision, in that, they may not actually have the ability or right to block it unless it does contain sensitive information, so this is all they can do. Or it could be possible the CIA/NSA for whatever reason actually want the book to be published. Or perhaps there is some kind of unknown policy that specifically forbids those from doing such things from profiting in such a manner and the policy is just being carried out. Nobody at the CIA is going to care about the money involved.

It is odd though.
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I don't know your situation but I imagine if I was in such I would try to contact as many left of center media outlets to get the story out. Also seek help from American Civil Liberties Union, whistle-blowing is a civil liberty.
Sounds interesting! Link please?