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Gobbledygook.

> The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents.

Truism. The point of contention is around what constitutes "best interest."

> The interests of outsiders are simply not relevant to that

If this is so simple, why did it require an additional 500ish words to qualify it?

Your point seems to boil down to this:

In cases where there is a conflict between the perceived "best interest" of citizens and those of non-citizens, if the citizens haven't specifically directed the government to do otherwise, the government should act in the perceived "best interest" of its own citizens.

But it's reductive and short-sighted to say that humanitarian aid "hurts" one side and "helps" the other. For instance, the marginal impact of a U.S. dollar on a U.S. citizen's productivity is effectively nil. But that same dollar spent in a third-world country would have much higher marginal impact. The productivity of that other citizen allows them to specialize and trade, and then everyone benefits in the long term.

The hyper-nationalism perspective that your country should take whatever it can at the expense of other countries is exactly what led to both of the world wars.
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>The words “up” and “down” are absolute, but the words “left” and “right” are relative to you. If we instead of “left” and “right” use the words “south arm” and “north arm”, then the mirror suddenly does not “flip” anything.

No dude. The mirror flips left and right Relative to you. The mirror ignores up and down relative to you. The paradox is real when thought of in these terms.

Truth be told the flip is neither left or right nor up and down. actually It is actually inside out on the z axis: towards you. Translational coordinates along the xy plane must be preserved and this is what causes the perceived left right flip.

The actuality is nothing was flipped along x or y, it was kept the same.

That's what trips everyone up.
In computer graphics z is generally used as the depth. See OpenGL's z-buffer.
What's with that simplistic view of nationalism and reality?

(caveat: I am an immigrant that came to Canada)

Nationalism is more about culture than birth, albeit there is an expectation of both. Pride in your culture and love for your community which you call nation. As things are, you get more exposed to a culture by physical proximity to the source. Therefore being born within a culture makes you knowledgeable of that culture. More likely to be proud of it. (Note, as an immigrant, I do not partake in nationalism in either my current country or origin country. Albeit, I like their cultures.)

Your idealism albeit commendable is far from reality. The world is unfair get over it.

Everyone wants better for themselves. And like the latest hacktoberfest showed, not everyone has the same culture (1). Therefore not everyone should live in close proximity. It would lead to a disruption of social harmony. Take for example those from a honor/shame culture. They will literally beat you up for joking about their mother. Violence in the name of honor. In the West, that kind of violence is seen as outrageous. "Be stoic about it". People from both cultures do not mix well unless they are willing to adapt.

I define human value as infinite. Also I am not responsible for the right treatment of those outside my sphere of control/influence. I refuse to take responsibility for everyone. It is not up to me to give a better wage to an ungrateful immigrant. Life is unfair, get over it.

I agree. It is unfair that descendants of immigrants refuse to receive immigrants. As an immigrant that came to Canada, I am grateful for this opportunity. Also, I am grateful that those that would have not adapted to the Canadian mosaic of cultures were not allowed to come. I think another term is culture fit. If you do not fit the culture, you should not be allowed in.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
The document says it’s network protocol agnostic because it only focuses on decentralizing the data layer, so it might be possible to use vapor on top of IPFS in addition to HTTP
Oh, that's bad. I tried one and the machine looked fine. But it was only a 30 min test.
Show HN: An app for buying home decor that fits with things you have at home
Hello HN, I'm building an interior design assistant that helps you buy home decor and furniture that match with things you already have at home.

Instead of searching for products, you take a picture to an object or to the entire room and the app will suggest you what products to buy.

I had the problem of decorating my home and I spent a lot of time browsing and driving from store to store for finding the products that I needed. An interior designer was to expensive and even if I had a design I'll be limited to just the products in my locar area or in what the designer knows.

Have any of you had the same problem before?

So that's why I' m building this. You can try what I've already done here: https://marketio.ai/assistant

Also, if you are a coffee drinker, you can take a picture to your coffee (coffee cup, mug, coffee machine, etc) and see what products it will suggest you.

I'm open to any feedback from you.
Thanks.
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Nobody likes a bully, China.

Taiwan is de facto a separate nation. They exist as a separate entity, whether China likes it or not. And some of us refuse to deny reality just because China wants us to.

It's more complicated than that, of course. Taiwan is de facto a separate nation, but both Taiwan and the mainland agree that they are one China. They just disagree about which government is the legitimate ruler of that one China. One suspects that the CCP would not be pleased if we replied that, yes, China is an inalienable part of the territory ruled by the government of Taiwan, even though we would be (technically) agreeing with them about one China.
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The conclusion is wrong? The conclusion is that mirrors "flip" (for lack of a better term) front-to-back.
I see it as the exact opposite. If organization sends me marketing from marketing@ and order details from orders@, I easily have a way to quickly delete or classify marketing@ as spam. I can't do that if they send everything from the same email.
I am in no way arguing that you cannot, just making the observation that social contracts change and a secondary and personal point that I find the practice detestable. I do not want someone to loose their livelihood because I disagree with them on their personal ideology and I certainly don't want to loose employment because someone disagrees with me on my personal belief system. The US communist witch-hunt is a great example because McCarthyism led to a good number of people who where not communist but where still undesirable to the current (at the time) social contract, being blacklisted by just throwing a communist label on them, which resulted in their lives and livelihood being destroyed.
>Taken to its logical conclusion, it would justify any kind of punishment for speech.

The trajectory of the argument doesn't point anywhere near that conclusion.
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Exactly. "We made GPT-3 with 99.9% less overhead" is a titillating and pants-wetting event. This is not.
> fine tuning their QA processes

Technically, this is QC (quality control), not quality assurance.
How is your platform going to weed out the people who spent big bucks on some upper middle class targeted products and then double down, reality be damned, on their sunk cost saying it's the best stuff ever?

That seems to be the fate that has befallen the various other "quality products" forums, subreddits, etc.
How do you prove that you’re privacy focused? You have to somehow prove that there’s something you did’t do. That’s kinda hard, and not much different from keeping it a secret.
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GP doesn't say it's never happened, just that the typical programmer isn't going to kill someone with a buggy password complexity validator. By and large, the standard programmer does not hold life and death in their hands when navigating callback hell.
> Don’t confuse the Bitcoin protocol with the public Bitcoin ledger!

They didn't, but the story sure did.
Actually, these kind of stuff do get asked at the various interviews to becoming a doctor.

* Working for free because it is a passion.

Actually a big part of the medical school interview is making sure you are passionate about medicine. You are pretty much expected to be doing some type of medical volunteering on an ongoing basis to demonstrate your passion. In addition, once you are in medical school, interviewing for residency, demonstrating passion by volunteering or leading a journal club is often a big boost to your chances.

* Whiteboards

As part of the USMLE (US Medical License Exam) there is a clinical skills section. You go into a recorded room with a standardized patient who pretends to have a certain illness. You are expected to ask them the right questions and do the correct exam. You are graded on how well you do.

In addition, before you can get board certified in your specialty (especially in surgery) and be allowed to practice on your own without any supervision, you undergo what are called oral exams. It is kind of like whiteboarding. There you are given hypothetical patient cases and are asked to walk through how you would diagnose it. What questions will you ask, what exams would you do, what imaging or other tests would you order. You are also asked about your treatment plan. If you are a surgeon, you will be asked to walk through how you would do the surgery, including what type of incision and the surgical approach. The examiners may throw in some complications (such as a lot of bleeding) and ask how you would deal with it.

In reality, the medical doctor interviews are much more demanding than the software developer interviews.

Source: I am a medical doctor and software developer and have done both the doctor interviews and the whiteboard interviews.
Another thing is product revisions. Version 1 might be an actual BIFL product. Version 2 might have a small yet significant revision impacting quality. Even process revisions like offloading part of the manufacturing process or a different part supplier can impact the longevity of a product.
Excited to see this!

Comment: looking at the Lodge Skillet, I can easily see how this is not going to scale well for products with many, many reviews. The page is already cluttered and hard to navigate with just a few dozen comments. Do you have a plan to collapse the UI into something more of a summary that can be expanded?
Very slick, live demo is really powerful
Yes, just to be explicit: there are no meaningful genetic differences in intelligence among human "races" (which is not a meaningful genetic group anyway).
If the barber doesn't shave himself, then he must shave himself because he shaves everyone who doesn't shave themselves. But he only shaves those that don't shave themselves, so he cannot shave himself....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox
That's really not true. At NASA for example there are standards that need to be followed when designing a system, implementing the code for it, reviewing and testing it, and releasing it. [1]

Yes there will always be bugs but no practice or method is invulnerable to this.

Software in general, in these high risk environments, has been extraordinarily successful in terms of reliability and safety.

[1] https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/software-assurance/2019...
This is a great idea! I love it.
Simulation has been used extensively by economists going back decades. One example is the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model.

Often the output is determined and easily predicted by the input assumptions and the results you get back aren't surprising given an understanding of those assumptions as well as the process that generates the output. Quite often it's a case of garbage in garbage out. Worse yet is when the results are spun as a finding/discovery in the empirical sense when in reality it's very common for researchers to fudge the inputs in order to get an output that is coherent and aligns with both common sense and extant theory.

Simulation (Monte Carlo) is much more reliable in financial product research since the market does seem to obey some stable distributional dynamics, and the consequences on product pricing are well understood.
Carbon/silicon batteries would be pointless to recycle - ordinary environmental substances (sand and dirt). Just burn them or sequester them. So that's good news.
Wine makes programs written for Windows work on Linux. The key difference is that Linux is an independently developed system. The extent that wine copies Windows code is limited to a compatability layer. It doesn't transform Linux into just a copy of Windows.

In contrast, Google didn't have their own independently developed programming language. They needed one so they copied the Java api and created one from there. They did not use the Api to create a compatability layer. It was used as a starting point to make their own copy of Java.
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You can't prove this at all. How do you know the photons don't pass through the mirror? What you are seeing are photons from the flipped alternate world on the other side of the mirror. Your reflection sees you and you see your reflection.

In a sense if you replace the mirror with a real reflected universe the same photons will hit your eyes and your perception of the reflection will be identical as if you are seeing an alternate world. That is what we perceive instinctually and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. You literally cannot prove it, but that's besides the point.

When people refer to flipping in the reflection they are not referring to the physical phenomenon of reflection but they are referring to the interpreted equivalent meaning that if the reflection was replaced with an identical universe to our own how is this reflected universe transformed relative to ours? The answer is: Something flipped.

In this case what we are saying is that the z-axis flipped.
Regulations on migration are bad, all bad. So maybe you don't put words in my mouth.

So if you want to regulate who I have in my home, then maybe I should regulate who your barber is.... and I would choose Sweeney Todd.
>Has a coin-cell backup battery which is interesting. I wonder what that's for? Making it a bit harder to reset the clock and disconnect internet to work around time limits? Do they do game rentals on PlayStation?

It might be to keep the SSD storage alive if the unit is disconnected from power, correct me on this if I'm wrong but I think SSD's can lose data when they lose power for a long period.
> No, it was found to be a copyright infringement in the first trial

I believe GP is correct. The jury found it to be infringement, but then Alsup ruled it wasn't copyrightable in the first place, so the jury's finding was irrelevant.

edit: oops, sorry, didn't realize the rangeCheck scope of this subthread
There's not really a good reason I can think of to require a degree to write software. Sure it shows a basic level of competency, but there are still often graduates who can barely code.

There's also some absolutely incredible developers who come from non-traditional backgrounds that would not even be considered by this requirement.

While it's most likely currently the case where finding a job without a degree is hard, I don't think a hard requirement for a degree should be a valid means of evaluating job applicants.
Implementing QUIC is not trivial, so I suspect it will be years until it gets reasonable adoption in standard frameworks and languages that prefer not to interop with C.
Does oracle actually have any function besides vampirically draining tech companies of money?
What does that have to do with privacy? I don’t use Brave (I won’t use anything Chromium-based while it has such dangerously high market share), but I think that controversy was exaggerated. All they where doing was adding redundant metadata (already present in the useragent string), IUUC not tied to any identity other than their own (not just an “anonymized” identity, no unique user identifier at all) to get some non-privacy-violating profit. And the title of that post is quite misleading — they didn’t change any actual links on pages, only added affiliate codes to the suggested omnibar completions you could choose to accept.
Oral arguments are happening via teleconference as a result of coronavirus, so they've been streamed live by C-SPAN.

You can find the replay here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?469263-1/google-v-oracle-ameri...
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Would somebody buy an IPhone with 1-week charge, if it was double the price? Probably.
Right - but there's hardly any tutorial coverage of how to use that tool.
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I was sending over 10x that many messages per second, including serialization and deserialization, from Ruby, over a very simple RabbitMQ shovel across datacenters in two time zones, to Ruby, with disk persistence delaying acks on both ends of the shovel, in 2014.
> Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.

This line in their post gives away how overblown that stance is. There's simply no way for DDG to be as bad as Google, much less worse than Google.

Still, I know Brave got caught hijacking links but DDG is, among all well-known search engines, the most privacy-friendly without a doubt. Especially coupled with a good browsers and some add-ons. I'm talking specifically about Firefox but I'm sure people here have some more unusual solutions they prefer.
Anyone know why there's no new URL scheme for HTTP/3? We didn't rely on Alt-Svc headers for switching to HTTPS. We gave it its own scheme. Why aren't we doing that for HTTP/3?
So what? I also implemented a couple of Smalltalk VMs, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk or https://github.com/rochus-keller/som, and I also spent a lot of time with the GNU ST implementation.
What was that huge block of plastic they took out near the end?
I write tutorials for a living and can't understand why people write such tutorials.

It's much more trouble to take and maintain web console screenshots than code snippes.

And as you said, it doesn't even make sense in the long run...
Practically no one in Congress would introduce a bill to do so because they (almost certainly) would be afraid it could be used on themselves. That’s my guess anyways.
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Yeah, that's the problem you want to make sure users don't face every time they power on their device.

Guessing: Perhaps, after Fukushima, Japan, like Germany has become very conscious about allowing people to completely shut off their devices when they are not using them?

I do remember German computer mags being very concerned with standby/operating power usage already like 15-20 years ago for things like home routers.
Why does mortality decrease when doctors go on strike?
> still hijacks links

No. They removed the sketchy affiliate thing.
> Wait, you have access to the oral arguments?

Don't need oral arguments for the results of the first trial and the arguments filed in the appeal of that first trial.

Here's the final judgement from the first trial: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1211.pdf

Note on the second page:

> With respect to Oracle’s claim for relief for copyright infringement, judgment is entered
in favor of Google and against Oracle except as follows: the rangeCheck code in TimSort.java
and ComparableTimSort.java, and the eight decompiled files (seven “Impl.java” files and one
“ACL” file),

And here's Oracle’s reply brief in the appeal; the relevant part on this issue is under the heading THERE IS NO “DE MINIMIS” DEFENSE TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf4/OraGoogleAppeal-134.pdf
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It's possible that consumers declare the they don't prefer UHT milk when asked but actually buy UHT milk without realising. In Greece, UHT milk is often sold in similar packaging as fresh milk (i.e. in plastic bottles rather than cartons) and placed in the refrigerated section alongside fresh milk.

To confuse matters further, some UHT milk is sold separately, outside the fridge and in the typical carton packaging that one expects it. So it's very easy to be confused about what is UHT and what is fresh, just by looking at where a product is and how it's packaged.

Of course you'd think that the taste would give the milk away- but I find that if UHT milk is refrigerated, its "burned milk" taste is much reduced and can easily fool someone who only drinks a little milk at a time or mixed with other foods or drinks, e.g. in their coffee or cereals.
I just assumed this was an American thing; as a Brit, I find it so cringey it almost hurts, and I'm embarrassed on their behalf.

I wonder actually, if anyone here customises their emails based on the mark's home region?
As American, unless it's in-person, and contextually appropriate, I always get real pod-people vibes when I get messages like this from my employer.

I recently picked up a book written in this style. It's been nails on a chalkboard for me.

I think the big issue is that it attempts to conform to the structure of a casual conversation, while eschewing established norms for casually written textual content.

I know what a comment on the internet looks like, or an IM chat, and that's roughly what a casual email should look like.

Writing a 'proper' email, and peppering in smarmy sidebars just feels sleazy, reduces the information density of the text, and makes me cringe enough to put whatever I'm reading on the backburner.
Or as Shafer the dark lord puts it:

Because mirrors are lazy.
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I'm not as pessimistic as all that, but I agree that vigilance is necessary. The good thing about going with the external box solution is that as if the company doesn't align with your values on this issue, you can unplug it and install something else. If that something else exists, of course.
I believe thats quite an overestimate. Both Amazon and Google exceed the minimum required wage in each level on average by 93% and 73% respectively.

Separately, that is precisely what the article is doing. Conflating the minimum with wages actually paid to infer that H1B workers at large tech companies are underpaid.

Source: p52 on
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/DOL-Int...
I don’t think people would be as upset with Intuit building that system (for the IRS) as they are that they lobby for complicated tax codes.
I'd guess that more than just some commenting didn't look at the article. There's complaints in the comments that only make sense if you ignore that there's an article at all.

But despite Physics Girl's video embedded in there being much better than the text, I can't fault anyone for not watching it. There are many situations where you can read through something, but can't watch a video.
> The main revenue source (in this case licensing money from Google) isn't cutting it/drying up

If Firefox weren't bleeding market share this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
Do yourself a favour and go watch that movie. There is a huge Hollywood sized grain of salt needed any time you deal with: Hacking, Computers, Internet, etc.. but this movie is EXCELLENT at showing 'Red Team' activities, social engineering, physical bypasses, and true historical hacking (debugging an IC to see what it does).

There is great comedy, action, and intrigue in this film and should be in the top 3 of any nerd movie list.
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Your preaching to the choir to me. I know a very large number of people who do rinse everything nearly clean before putting into the dishwasher, they do not understand me.