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> You will find that Holocaust denying specifically has been banned by law from a number of European countries for a very long time.

European countries were never a bastion of freedom. That's why nazi germany existed in europe, not in america. I love people bringing up europe as some example that we should follow. They most definitely are not.

> And free speech is still doing just fine.

No it's not. That's the point.

Free speech exists to defend offensive/fringe/hateful speech. Popular speech doesn't need free speech protection after all. If free speech exist to protect anything, it is holocaust denial. Think about it. What good is free speech if it can't protect the most offensive speech?
This makes a lot more logical sense. The already had pistols and shotguns aplenty to shoot people, adding some armored carriers, camo, and some AR15s isn't going to really add much to that capability. I find your proposal a lot more likely, the police departments that get this stuff are much more aggressive and see it more as a War on Crime, rather than to Protect and to Serve.
The author is a native French speaker. Based on context, I'm pretty sure he's using the word recruiter to mean a company that's recruiting and not the HR individual that funnels resumes to hiring managers.
Do you have a source for that? It looks like there are plant patents in the EU.

https://www.mewburn.com/law-practice-library/plant-variety-r...

https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/node/285
first time typed FP project ?

haskell has a long history, and ancestors with a long history too, it's normal to feel alienated when you have a background with mainstream languages

I can't talk for haskellers (I'm not using it) but it's not that FP/haskell doesn't care, it's just that its medicine taste sour to you.

If I can give you another point of view, languages like php, started very differently from what they are now. Give a 'closure' to a php3 dev and he will feel just like you do I believe. In 2020, the most used php web frameworks use closures as the normal way, and people are quite happy with it.

I believe haskell is just like that, it's just too advanced.
If you earn a lot of money, you can move into a gentrified city like Stanford. The city approves a small fraction of the new housing that is needed to keep up with demand, so prices are inflated 500%. Single mothers and young people cannot afford to live nearby and must commute 3 hours a day to their jobs. Enjoy your old rich neighbors and traffic.
A horizontal scan rate of 16 kHz is audible. If CRTs were brought back today they very likely would not run NTSC. I wouldn’t worry about coil whine at 30+ kHz.
The probability of my ever receiving a Nobel Prize is pretty much ZERO. Coincidentally, that is almost the same probability of anyone being able to reach me at 2:15AM, unless they come pounding on my door (and I still might not hear it).
I value my sleep and I have set all of my phones and devices to automatically go into DND mode sometime around 11PM.
If it were you, would you rather have a good night of sleep and be pleasantly surprised in the morning (before facing the press), or would you rather be a zombie?
Last year, I used nuance dragon professional individual 15 for completing nanowrimo with ywriter 5 and an old work hand-me-down headset (Jabra Pro 9450 or thereabouts).

Over 98% of the prose was written by voice, and because of the headset's wireless range, I was able to wander around the house while thinking about what to say, with dragon happily riding down what I said and easily letting me correct when it made mistakes. I got very good at saying "full stop new paragraph" or, "select line, quote that, go back" to quote lines of dialogue. I expected to have to learn a million commands by rote memorization, but it seems like it became second nature within a day or two for first draft noveling purposes, I have no doubt that medical or legal uses have more advanced commands, but for writing a 50,000 plus word draft it was fine.

If you don't want to pay $300 for nuance dragon, I got scarily good results from trying out Microsoft office online word dictation via office 365 about 2 months ago via a $60 bluetooth headset for wfh.

I won't rely on the latter service myself because it is not offline speech recognition, and can be taken away at the flip of a switch, but for trying out if speech recognition is worth it for you to pay $200 on eBay or $300 in the store for dragon, it is certainly a useful feature to get off the ground.
That's a straw man. We live in a far more complex world today, one that you can't simplify down to "being neighbors with royalty", but I see how attaching to that one concrete aspect serves the purpose of distracting from the reality that power acts in many dimensions and physical space is only one of them.

Human rights, equal opportunity to gain access to a humanistic standard of living, political representation in proportion to your vote, freedom from persecution by the 'royalty' or their security forces, all of those can be achieved without living next to any erstwhile 'king'.
I found Amplify excellent to get up and running quickly. I’d highly recommend it for anyone without a well-oiled CICD setup who wants to quickly get a website up to test out an idea.

Unfortunately, I quickly hit the limits of its configurability (particularly with Cloudfront) and had to move off it within a few months.
I'm sorry a 38 caliber "old school" pistol will kill you just about as quickly as an AR15 and a shot gun with correct shells will be far more likely to end you. It's not about the style of gun, it's about who's using it and how aggressive they are.
Closest these days is the ZX Spectrum Next - which just ended a second Kickstarter - basically an overclocked ZX Spectrum with an onboard FPGA to give it some extra commands/video modes.

I would love a similar thing for the Commodore - I think the Commander X-16 is a close proxy.
This pandemic probably opens up a ton of possibilities that wouldn't be feasible otherwise; how else would you ask most of the population to stop moving around all the time?
Cobalt

https://cobalt-org.github.io
I wonder if you could drive this to generic by widespread disobeying behaviour? Thermos became generic because they lost control. Asprin because of war reparations. Hoover was a proper name. Deliberately jonny-appleseeding the living bejesus out of these grapes could make it next to impossible to say who dun it, from memory Grape Genome is quite plastic.

(I am not advocating this. I am asking if the patent would fall if you could demonstrate it existed in sustaining forms in the wild, widespread)
This is precisely what I do when I write code destined to be an AWS Lambda Function. It really feels like the only sane way to do it. It also makes it easy to mock the incoming request/event for integration tests.
When you say there is no vendor lock in, are there other companies that will host the container for you?

Can I just deploy my container to three different places and choose where to point my URL?

I'm right now faced with re-wiring a Python 2.7 App Engine App and feeling the pain of the lock in.
It sounds like you're describing the Cloudformation template visualiser/editor in the AWS Console, which I have never heard of anyone using as the primary interface for their Cloudformation templates.

Personally for simple projects I've had pretty good experiences writing a Yaml-based template directly, and for more complex projects I use Troposphere to generate Cloudformation template Yaml in Python.
If pthread_cond_signal() is broken pthreads is useless for all but the most trivial threaded programs.
There is no Nobel prize in Economics
> The best programmers embrace a “long game” mentality. They aren’t in a rush to memorize every bit of syntax, but instead, focus on real, sustainable progress. They know each programming concept builds off of another one and they don’t move on to another concept until they’ve understood the current one.

Huh. I don't know any programmers (novice or otherwise) who spend time memorizing syntax.

That said, IME, the best way to learn programming is by doing. Even if you know only the very basics, just start working on projects, and you'll learn more concepts and features as and when you need them, look them up, and implement them.
>We were very aware that big projects, be they software or home construction, don't ever go perfectly

Most large projects have some central features/processes that are by their very nature both very expensive and very complicated.

The entire prefab industry is built around minimising those things - but then something ELSE becomes the most expensive/complicated thing. You then have a situation where if you're seen as a bottleneck, holding up the expensive/complicated thing, then the total cost of the project will balloon.

Many prefab companies know this and are happy to sell modules with little QA work done, because it's unlikely that there will be serious repercussions. Once you accept the work then it'll be too hard for your legal team to fight for (or at least, not financially worth it).

I'm not saying that prefab companies are ethically bankrupt, but it IS an environment that promotes this method of doing business. I've been in construction for mining/oil&gas companies, on both sides of this situation, quite a few times. The amount of shoddy work you're willing to accept is quite terrifying once the cost for re-work gets into nine and ten digits.
The smaller cities you're thinking of are very large compared to the median sheriff's office, with less than 25 sworn personnel. (https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/so07st.pdf) It's hard for a SWAT team to be meaningfully distinct at such a small size, when you're counting on one or two hands the number of times it's needed in a year.
> Telling somebody that the Holocaust didn't happen is indubitably an example of free speech.

Not only is it an example, it's the best example. Free speech rights exist to protect the most offensive speech. It doesn't exist to protect popular benign speech.

This is what so many people here, mostly foreigners without a doubt, don't understand. If you find something offensive or hateful, that's what free speech exists to protect. If it doesn't, free speech rights are worthless.
Some of the black on the metal hardware comes from coatings to prevent rust and other corrosion, not to look cool. Custom colored coatings (cerakote I guess if you want light blue) would be much more expensive. It’s not just simply painted black. The other hardware that is painted is done for camouflage, and I’m betting the vehicles were sand colored when they got them as a black APC is gonna stand out real well in the desert.
I tried working from home for the last six months. I've tried everything recommend here, nothing worked. Productivity tanked

Recently the office opened up, just for me. I'm alone in the office but massively more productive

I find it frustrating that so many comments discount that some people just don't work well from home. I have no logical reason, but I just need to get ready, walk to work to get stuff done

WFH may work for some, but it does not work for me no matter what I do and I'm sure it's true for others
The funny thing is that everyone in the West denies the Holocaust happened to the Slavs (5 million Slavs to 6 million Jews). Even though Hitler said time and time again that Slavs were to be exterminated from all areas west of the Urals.

So when are we banning everyone who says only 6 million people died in the holocaust?
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Well, so far? Not enough cost savings and lack ability to buy it in a reasonable manner. If you are a pre-fab shop, target some of the more rural reservations in the US. The housing situation generally sucks.
Haven't seen you in meat space for a few years - good to see you're still alive and well in cyberspace!
What about SWAT teams?
While running my CRT monitor at 60 Hz recently I discovered that peripheral vision has better temporal acuity than foveal vision. Flicker is much more noticeable of things you’re not looking directly at.
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Transactions also have no "notion" of storage implementation details, so your point really isn't relevant to the topic at hand. They operate at a higher level of abstraction.
So then these centers will be known and avoided by terrorists.
Similar to MiSTer, if you want a more modern Amiga take, the Vampire 4 has a standalone version now - overclocked Amiga with tons of RAM.
Disruption of Blood Dynamics as the Cause of “Long Covid”
I suspect the key is to somehow make it really quick and easy to retroactively fix mispredictions and other mistakes. That'd open up the space for more aggressive guess-what-I-mean input methods.
Hong Kong is an odd example of a big, dense city with excellent public transit where access to a car can still be a major quality of life improvement, just because of climate and topography. The government’s resistance to ridesharing is incredibly annoying.
The Flirc Raspberry Pi 4 case does the same thing - passively cools the RPi 4 well enough to avoid throttling - for something like half the cost.

A reminder for anyone using the RPi 4, the single greatest determinant of how much your board will heat up is... whether or not you're still on the original release firmware. There was an update that was tremendously effective in cooling things off (without damaging performance).
So the question you ask in parenthesis is different from the question you ask int he first paragraph. If you prove the plant existed widespread in the wild before the patent holder tried to apply for the patent, then yes, the plant is not patentable. Furthermore, if the variety is not reproduced asexually, then it is not patentable. This is basically plant prior art. You cant patent air conditioners because they already exist.

However, if you do what you mentioned in the first paragraph and go and propagated a ton of plants and make them widespread after the fact, then no you haven't invalidated the patent. You just infringed on it even more and probably have to pay a bigger fine. In general, you don't get to escape the legal consequences of an action by doing the action even more times. That just makes the consequences worse.
> Instead, you can write a function that takes parameters from elsewhere and call your business logic there.

This is what I tried to do initially after experiencing the dev pain for only a few minutes.

But unfortunately this doesn't work very well in anything but the most trivial case because as soon as your lambda has a 3rd party package dependency you need to install that dependency somehow.

For example, let's say you have a Python lambda that does some stuff, writes the result to postgres and then sends a webhook out using the requests library.

That means your code needs access to a postgres database library and the requests library to send a webhook response.

Suddenly you need to pollute your dev environment with these dependencies to even run the thing outside of lambda and every dev needs to follow a 100 step README file to get these dependencies installed and now we're back to pre-Docker days.

Or you spin up your own Docker container with a volume mount and manage all of the complexity on your own. It seems criminal to create your own Dockerfile just to develop the business logic of a lambda where you only use that Dockerfile for development.

Then there's the whole problem of running your split out business logic without it being triggered from a lambda. Do you just write boiler plate scripts that read the same JSON files, and set up command line parsing code in the same way as sam local invoke does to pass in params?

Then there's also the problem of wanting one of your non-Serverless services to invoke a lambda in development so you can actually test what happens when you call it in your main web app but instead of calling sam local invoke, you really want that service's code to be more like how it would run in production where it's triggered by an SNS publish message. Now you need to somehow figure out how to mock out SNS in development.

Serverless is madness from start to finish.
> Ashok and among Mughals Akbar did better by promoting truly plural society, abolishing the system of punishing people in minority with different beliefs
> Obviously we didn’t live in that era so my views are only based on some studies.

It was the massacres Ashoka committed in the war against Kalinga that supposedly turned him Buddhist. Every other empire in human history has also committed huge atrocities, so much that it's almost tautological.

> Today in most democracy it’s a tyranny of majority and the constitutional rights granted for protection of minority are constantly diluted or completely removed. “Black lives matter” and “Minority treatment in India”

I agree it's regressing right now, but the political structures still exist in democracies to fight back against the regression, at least for now. That's more than can be said for people living under absolute monarchy or authoritarian rule today.
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Do we really need to pull up instances of when police use APCs to insert SWAT teams? It’s very easy to find and pretty well common knowledge if you look.
This isn't 'new' at all.
I guess in places where I've worked we've had Ops folks that handled things like access controls, managing secrets, servers, network, etc. Usually in space rented in a commercial datacenter, where the datacenter handles power, cooling, physical security, and where the building has a diversity of internet providers. Its a team effort. In my opinion, software developers shouldn't be responsible for OS level patches, OS access controls, etc. It makes sense in a startup situation but it doesn't scale and it only takes one misstep.
Not to mention plants are much harder to clone at scale, since the parent strains can be kept secret which effectively prevents seed propagation. It’s easy to clone one for personal use, but to scale it out for commercial sale is much, much harder (depending on the type of fruit).
I disagree; a powerful language lets you push all the junk aside and avoid repeating yourself. The worst part of writing a webapp in, say, Java, isn't the business requirements, it's interfacing with the ridiculous reflection-based authentication library and threadlocal-based database session management and whatever other crap.
'We describe an investigation of two instances of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the same individual.'

Doesn't apply if you're Trump!
Thats because plant patents cover varieties that won't really propagated themselves asexually naturally (or won't come true from seed). Tubers will keep propagating by themselves - you cant call out someone for infringing a patent on a potato if you miss one when harvesting and it makes more of itself. Although there's always grey area - plant reproduction is complicated! Tubers and seeds are however covered under plant variety protection, but that's a different legal code than patents.
On the flip side, serverless can scale to 0. Makes it very cost effective for one off functions
There was a story once told by Eric Schmidt that while on a trip to China he was touring a bridge construction and no heavy machinery was being used, the Chinese officials were pointing it out as something positive because it meant more people worked at the site and it generated more jobs.

Eric said they should have given the workers spoons if that was the goal, which caused a couple laughs that were met with anxious stares by local officials.
Judging from the description, that may have been a G520: the 4:3 brother to the FW900. Truly something to carry into the future.
Yet they paint them tan when in military use. Honest question, why do you think black = intimidating?
I strongly believe it's a positive feedback loop:
"good life, good sleep, good learning, good career, good friends, good family, good home, good legacy, good politics"

It comes off the inspiration from my First Big Personal Project:
https://adequate.life
I don't like plant patents like this as they are infringing on natural rights of people that have been around since the invention of agriculture.

I grew potatoes in my garden after some store-bought ones developed eyes. It never crossed my mind to check if they were patented first, and it's absurd that I'd have to.

The monopolization of everything is insane. We're binding ourselves up tighter and tighter in paper.
Spend more time observing and listening. It will make you a better writer.
I agree wholeheartedly with this, but I think this probably only applies to people with particular mindsets, and depends on what people value.

If it'd be financially difficult for you to live in a city center with enough room for a guest bedroom and a garage for your car, and you really really really value living in the city center, then you'll probably sacrifice that car and guest room.

But nothing beats the convenience of walking out/down to your garage, hopping in the car, and driving off. Being able to host friends in your home is arguably more hospitable than putting them up in a hotel (though the hotel is an awesome gesture if you don't have the space). Having a (fenced, perhaps) backyard means allowing appropriately-aged kids to play outside mostly unsupervised.

If you can afford the extra expense without reducing your quality of life in other ways, then I think it's absolutely worth it, but... it is expensive, though, in money and time. I have a car, but I could probably make more than $4k/year renting out my garage space, and the cost of insurance, registration, maintenance, and depreciation adds at least another thousand or two to that. Given how little I drove pre-pandemic, I'm pretty sure a ZipCar membership, or using something like Turo, would be more cost-effective. But I know people who drive a lot more than I do, and I'm not convinced they'd save all that much (if anything) ditching the car and switching to rentals.

There's also the right-tool-for-the-job argument. My car is fine for the city and nearby. When I want to go to Tahoe in the winter, I rent a car with 4WD/AWD and snow tires. So it's not like owning a car eliminates the need for rentals, and frankly I just don't want a big bulky snow-weather car for city/local driving.

From an environmental and community perspective, yeah, using shared things is way better. Fewer cars produced and shared among more people is a good thing. Higher housing density (within limits) is a good thing, and having a guest room that sits unused 95% of the time probably isn't a great use of space. Going to a park and interacting with your neighbors is great. Riding public transit and reducing traffic and emissions is great. Those things do have a cost, though, and I think Americans especially are raised to be more individually-minded than community-minded.
> The people who held them now work minimum wage jobs or live off welfare.

You might want to provide a source for that one, there is still a huge amount of car industry expertise there including robotics, electric car engineering and thousands of support companies that feed the main companies.
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While GMO regulation is a tough issue, this post has nothing to do with GMOs - the grapes in the post are under a standard plant patent and are non bioengineered.
Don’t they usually just keep the parent strains a secret and create hybrid seeds?
Too bad the winner isn't one of them.
Microsoft leads effort to disrupt infamous TrickBot botnet
> The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled

Netlify, cloudflare, vercel, hasura, heroku, firebase and indeed aws and azure may have something to say about that!
No I'm not. Many political goals can be achieved without violence. Creating a white-only nation is not one of those goals. That one specifically necessitates violence and this makes neonazis fundamentally violent.

Do you honestly believe that if the neonazis were in charge that I'd be given speech rights?