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Ham radio can't be used for commercial purposes nor can it carry encrypted content. Operators also have to be licensed which means all of their personal details are on file with the licensing government. If they're caught breaking the bounds of their license it will be revoked and they can personally face fines and even criminal charges.

Even if you got a bunch of hams to illegally carry general purpose Internet content the ham bands aren't exactly brimming with available bandwidth. Most packet radio below 30MHz (where you'll get your long range transmissions) is commonly 300bps. That's bits per second. Instead of risking hams go buy some cantennas and set up a WiFi mesh.
interoperating with fewer people means that the quality of the people (for those operations at least) can be increased.
Verbal tiptoeing has become an absolute bore. An exhausting bore.
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My attempt at explaining why periods at the end feel uncomfortably stiff in a Slack-like environment:

Social conversations are fluid and open-ended, with participants organically shifting between listening and speaking. A period however conveys finality, which is off-putting in such a human setting.

For example, “No.” sounds like the very stern “No” of someone who’s not willing to listen or discuss any further.
Technically speaking they asked if he was planning to bring developers to NZ, and he’s responded that the company had no such plans, nor did he have a meeting lined up to discuss this. Very good corporate speak. Next up, he just might be running for President.
I want to know where my upvotes are coming from! Some days the counter is increased by one or two, and there appears to be no activity on my newest comments.
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Source? In all statistics I have seen up to now, men were more likely to be antimask then women. So French women seems to be outliers.
Thanks for your perspective. It really does take a lot of effort to research and understand the context of these kind of events and I really wish everyone would make the same effort before jumping to their own conclusions.
If all the particles in your body were made magnetic and you jump out of a plane on a weightless magnetic planet, how would it feel different than jumping out of a plane on Earth?
What many people in this thread don't realize is that sports is more than NBA and soccer.

In fact, less commercialized sports are much more interesting to watch and participate because they are not just full of over-hyped over-payed over-celebritized evening-entertainment shows designed to milk the audience of most money possible.

If "athlete" ends for you at what's on pay TV and on ads at bus stops, sure. But that's a very limited view of sports. And quite sad, frankly.
Yep! It's mind-boggling. Wikidata is one of the most exciting projects on the internet to me.
Mass Hysteria.

What's more interesting is, like Covid-19 testing people is finding all strange things.

I'd like to think it's because our tech is catching up and we are finding the body changes in interesting ways.

But I unfortunately I think our diagnostic tools are in part tools of mysticism used to find what we want to find.

Like running CCleaner, we all know deep down the problem is going to be much harder but it's easier to just run the tool often than actually finding the real problems. And eventually the person just gets a new computer or the patient dies.
Exactly my point!

Homeschooling/unschooling very likely works well for some (I think it worked well for me). But that doesn't mean it would work well on average.
The latter. It's never needed and does more harm than good.
60 years seems like a stretch to ease my curiosity. I better start working out extra and eating more salads.
Is it Albert-László Barabási's conclusion that centralization is inevitable?
My understanding is that the permissions popup is used for the registration flow (generating & enrolling a key into the Secure Enclave), and after that if there are existing credentials, it's just 'Touch ID to login'.
I'm a founder of a company making Jira/Trello competitor [0] and we actually just released a Discord integration this week (we've had a Slack one for ages) because we had a number of customers and potential customers ask for it. So a small N, but it does seem to be gaining in popularity inside companies, at least smaller ones.

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Wow thanks for this reply and the other reply that you linked. I think it just goes to prove how valuable it is to do your own research before passing judgement but sadly this takes a lot of time and effort that many people (including me) don't have.
Most of the comments in here seem to be missing the most important aspect.

This is open source:
https://github.com/chellmuth/gpu-motunui/

Let me explain. GPU rendering of cinema quality scenes by itself is not that new. V-Ray GPU was around in 2013 and already had an impressive showreel back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPFY5OUzdk

I'd count Octane and Redshift as the next big contenders, who together with V-Ray switching from perpetual to subscription pricing, took over the market. Here's an example of a Redshift render from 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8yh83jlXg

Lately, Pixar has been handing out Renderman GPU betas, which has already been used in the new jungle book movie: https://youtu.be/tiWr5aqDeck?t=171

Along with this development, the price has gone down. From $1200 per V-Ray license, to $600 per Redshift license and now it seems like the previously prohibitively expensive Pixar renderer will soon be offered for $500.

And recently, people have been using Houdini ($6000 per seat) to export their scenes as USD (free open file format) so that they can use Blender 2.81 for rendering (also free). But the conversion to get things into Blender is work. This renderer can use the Disney production data directly, which is very convenient if you want to drop it in at the last minute for cost saving.

GPU rendering has gone from novelty in 2013 to established in 2016 to become the new default in 2018/2019. And this released as open source to me implies that the commercial renderer market will soon be dead. It looks "good enough" for advertisements and archviz, which is where the money is made.
President would be a perfect role! There's no third term.
But the companies are under no obligation to include this information. If they are legally forbidden from including it, how does it become a violation of my rights as a practitioner when it is not a violation for them to just not bother?

Though maybe bringing in religion makes this distracting... Do you think a state government may permissibly make a law banning the sale of transgender flags? You're still free to make your own or even sell them as individuals.

Or maybe more directly to Citizen's United - can the government ban all non-indie films that negatively depict the military? Individuals have a free speech right to make whatever films they want, but do corporations?
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> Define “society”. And define “offensive”

I will refer you to the wikipedia articles about political correctness and gender-neutral language as they probably do a much better job of defining the matter than I would.

I understand that you feel like "someone" making these definitions should have some kind of authority to be trustworthy. However, what happens is that someone makes a claim and then a large portion of society agrees. This is what gives them authority. And that is just how change is done usually in the democratic process. For example, at some point someone decided that women should vote and large portion of society agreed. And now, a few years later, we live in a society were women voters are the most normal thing you can think of.

> And arguing over words has almost zero possibility of any positive impact.

You just say that but you don't cite any scientific sources?
Another free tool in a similar vein is F5Bot. It can monitor HN for keywords and email you whenever they show up.

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> Not to try and invalidate your experiences, but "IRC" doesn't refer to any specific software program. I'd be interested to know which of the dozens of IRC clients you were using that was so horrible.

We ... did try that. Of course. :(

A failure of IRC's ecosystem is a failure of IRC. Ultimately it doesn't matter what part of the big chain of interconnected pieces is actually the culprit, unless you're the rare individual in a position of leverage to fix it. A failure of implementors to correctly adhere to the protocol, or ISPs to send it, or anything - is still a consequence of decisions made by the designer who released it into the wild.

An analogy to draw is the web - the web isn't just browsers; it's webpages, it's servers, it's scripting languages, and all of these add up to an experience that can be judged as a whole. We've had many mistakes on the web - every time flash crashed on someone was a direct consequence of the quick-and-dirty netscape plugin api getting rushed to market. Decisions => consequences. But any time something's bad? It's "the web"'s fault as a whole.

And if it gets bad enough, people look for alternatives for particular tasks.

> I do largely agree with most of your points aside from reliability. In my experience large IRC networks with many servers are essentially immune to downtime.

Fwiw, we weren't talking about downtime. These issues may have actually not been caused by network outages at all.

To explain this for your benefit:

Consider that this was invisible failure. It took quite a few years before I was able to realize that "awkward silences" in the conversation were actual failures-to-send-messages. Not netsplits. The messages never got through, rather than being delayed. Just, every day or two, chunks of conversations would completely fail to send - just a couple sentences here and there. No rhyme or reason. And so intermittently, we wouldn't notice it.

It just felt like the other person was rudely not replying, so I figured they were afk, but when they came back, it was genuinely like they hadn't seen it. And once you're friends with someone and you really know their personality, you can tell that this just ... isn't like them at all to forget things like that. Or not read the backscroll. Finally I started to wonder. What tipped me off was a bouncer I had coming in from a different ISP. The bouncer got the messages, and my local never did, even days later. After that, I compared logs between myself and friends, and ... they were mostly ... similar.

But not identical. There were holes. And this had been going on for a decade.

And maybe the same thing happens to you - because really: How can you even tell?
They love us seems to never be that useful. I actually meant more in terms of there worried about foo or finding out about the dumb workaround there using. That stuff seems to be an early warning sign that something isn’t going well.
We're down about 1 billion at the moment. A $750 million dollar loan that the people of Mt Pleasant took out for "improvements". In addition to about two or three hundred million spent on things like highway construction, wastewater infrastructure, stuff like that. My own hope is that we walk away from the table. You have to know when to fold a bad hand.

Oh, I forgot the best part. Even though the people of Mt Pleasant unilaterally decided to take out the loan for 3/4 of a billion dollars, the now former governor Scott Walker guaranteed that taxpayers from the rest of the state would pay the loan off. So Mt Pleasant got 3/4 of a billion in what is effectively free money, because people in Green Bay and Superior are obliged to pay it back, not them.

We got a new governor, but he's been prevented from unwinding the loan guarantee by the state legislature that stripped the governorship of pretty much all powers before he could take office.

The corruption in Wisconsin runs deep. We can't catch a break up here. So remember, no matter how bad you think things are in Florida, or Texas, or New Jersey with respect to corruption, you could always be worse off. You could live in Wisconsin.
I know exactly why I "didn't progress" and they did, as you kind of put it.. I decided not to. They decided to continue. I stopped training, they didn't. When I was still active I progressed same as they did - and I saw nothing super-human in their later performance. Obviously I only have intimate knowledge about my own field, I know nothing about e.g. 100m sprinters, jumpers and the like. And, as everybody else, I'm pretty suspicious about pure muscle-based sports like weight lifting.
For me it's all blocked because of CORS
That's a ridiculous claim because it can't be falsified as long as you are not arguing with an unbeaten olympic champion. As long as an athlete has been beaten by somebody, you can always pull the "yeah well you know why you didn't win? Because you're clean, but everybody above you doped."

Just like arguing "well we only lost the election cause the other side cheated."
> void in argument and return position in C

void in the argument position in C is just a punctuation that was added by ANSI C to denote a prototyped empty parameter list. This is because () already had the meaning of "unspecified parameter list".

C++ fixed this issue from the beginning by banning the concept of an unspecified parameter lists and so initially it had no (void). In C++, () means "empty, fully declared parameter list". C++ added (void) for ANSI C compatibility.

Note that a parameter list like (void, void) or (void, int) and other possibilities is not allowed. It really is just a syntactic hack for that special case and not a parameter type declaration.

The (void) spelling could instead have used some other token. ANSI C could plausibly have chosen, say, the token sequence (!) to distinguish a prototyped empty parameter list from (). The shape is certainly available because (!) is a syntax error. Would ! then denote the unit type, even though it's not a type specifier?

> I don't know why you assert that we don't need bottom under this model, however.

That's nothing compared to the question of where I assert such a thing.

(Still, why would we need to represent a bottom type in describing a language that doesn't have it as a concept? It's handy for "internal use" in the model. Every type system should have a bottom type.)

> your proposed solution does not allow you to represent bottom

We can easily establish the existence of more than one empty type, and stipulate that they are all distinct and incompatible, even though their domain is the same empty set. So if we have used one such type U for a specific purpose which somehow makes it unsuitable as bottom, we can invent another type V very similar to it, and call that one bottom. We endow V (and only V) with the required property that it's the subtype of every type, including itself. Since U is not endowed that way, it's not the bottom type, but U does not hinder the existence of V in any way.

As long as we don't create a conflict in a system, giving rise to a contradiction, we are not prevented from adding anything.

I understand that if the role for U is to represent something like the C void, then it could be a unit type. A unit type will do everything we need in the model. Yet, it's not elegant; the unit type carries a useless value which has no manifestation in the system being modeled.
This was a nice absurdist short story that gave me a peek into the life of giant corporations with idiotic management. This is what happens with zero accountability.
You mention the "excessive complexity" of the matrix protocol, so I am a bit surprised that you advertise XMPP as an alternative. I never have looked at either protocols, but I remember that in the days when jabber looked like the next thing, it was strongly criticised for being overly complex and in particular using xml being unsuitable for a chat protocol. So I'm wondering if something changed and if you can I've examples of what is complex in matrix but easy in XMPP?
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I think the answer is that if it's misleading/deceptive they can't under trade practices laws, and yes, I'd certainly call that a restriction on free speech, but it's one that applies equally to individuals and corporations.
Instead of spending so much time and effort proving someone else's idea isn't a productive use of time, why not spend your limited time and effort investing in ways you feel produces meaningful, positive change for racial equality and justice? Who cares if other people are making what you feel are symbolic gestures.

You could spend 10 hours convincing me renaming branches furthers nothing, or you could spend 10 hours fixing the problem (or working towards fixing the problem).
In Dutch we have a saying: The best helmsmen stand on the shore. (Those who watch always know better than those who do.)

I also think there is some envy in it. Some people wish they had the same success and only can criticize in envy.

Fact is right now Signal is the only safe option for a messenger that hides your messages and other meta data.
But would you want to only block single IPv6 addresses? Usually whole blocks are assigned as far as I know? So just hashing a single ipv6 would probably not work very well.
> it’s like writing an email or a letter rather than having a conversation.

I don't like having a conversation over text. It feels inefficient, and I have to be on my phone more than I want to.

I prefer the "couple of paragraphs" format of HN, where you think through your message, and maybe edit a bit, before you send.

I'm also 30 ;-)
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> >sailing, canoe and kayak events

> How much money is behind those sports? Hint...NOT much. We Talk about Cycling, Athletics, Football and so on..

No, the parent talked about:

> basically every elite athlete is doping.

That's just not true. Unless you have a totally twisted understanding of what an athlete is.
You created another nick or another channel and moved on with life. I liked EFnet, although the conversation got disrupted by troublemakers all the time, I met some really interesting people on it. Freenode was also too nice with nick registration and nicer people and no stinking IRC network task force on the channels like on UnderNet. You totally had the option to be a nomad or register a nickname or a channel.

The next logical step would have been to make it encrypted and add p2p voice chat via DCC or some other method. SILC tried the former but failed to gain traction, people either stuck with IRC or moved on to AIM and Yahoo Messaneger.
They use Web Authn, which is an open Web API : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...

Implementing a client with this also works on Android and any computer that supports some kind of hardware authentication mechanism, like fingerprint or face recognition.
None of the ones I knew well enough to call friends or acquaintances did, and of those who continued to a pro level none of them arbitrarily stopped. They continued until their careers naturally started to decline, and then changed careers - some of them sports related, some not.
Aside from the tragedy of his loss, it is the mundanity of Jacob's death that is striking and instructional. Catastrophe looms. The Germans take away his sister. He pleads with people he considers allies to help, to do anything. They reply noncommittally. He is taken into captivity himself. He dies of medical neglect in a prison camp, where he has been reduced to an anonymous figure, stripped of his past and his humanity. From well-connected public figure to a sick prisoner on a cold pallet in the course of a year, a month, a week. The train reaches the end of the line. Finally, nothing.
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Remember,

Marlinspike is the guy who wrote a protocol with a built in MITM functionality, and had enough chutzpah to call it end-to-end encryption, and said that UI feedback for key changes will "confuse users."

A bad, and weak encryption scheme he wants. It's like the previous discredited idea: "let's put SSL/TLS everywhere, but trust self signed certs because otherwise we will confuse users"
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Certainly, much of the developed world uses too much.
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I think it is not so much money, but more whether mom is content being stay at home mom being completely fully dedicated to family, being content being dependent on husband and without being independent source of income. That is situation that can get you quite trapped it the things go wrong.

It is also quite isolating situation, some women don't like basically working alone all the time or have own aspirations and dreams.
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«did not see hospital overload or healthcare rationing at any point.»

They did ration healthcare. This was the object of multiple news articles last week:
https://time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster/ «the country’s hospitals were implementing a triage system» The triaging was so severe that «Only 13% of the elderly residents who died with COVID-19 during the spring received hospital care» Get your facts right.

«Lockdowns have certainly created a death toll, that is by now mainstream consensus. The debate is about whether it's most of the excess death or only a large chunk of it.»

This is laughably inaccurate. On the contrary, lockdowns are largely credited for overall having averted cases and deaths. I maintain a list of peer-reviewed studies (and some preprints) on the subject, and the vast majority agree:
https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1307723024523616257 There isn't a single peer-reviewed study that suggests lockdowns are responsible for a "large chunk" of excess deaths. You are victim of misinformation.

Your comparison to 1999/2000 flu death is invalid: there were delays in reporting deaths that caused many deaths to be reported on the week after Xmas, hence the artificially high peak of that week of 2000. If you compare monthly excess deaths (to smooth artificial peaks) you will see covid excess deaths in April 2020 surpass flu excess deaths of January 2000.

And yet, this comparison would still miss the point: covid is such a serious disease that despite (effective) lockdowns, it still managed to kill more than he most severe flu seasons of the last 20+ years. That alone should make you stop and think...

There is in fact a government report that found «in comparison with the deaths due to influenza and pneumonia occurring in the year to 31 August 2020, deaths due to COVID-19 have been higher than every year monthly data are available (1959 to 2020).» https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Germany and Switzerland have implemented particularly effective lockdowns, hence little to no excess deaths.
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Nice place to be "stranded".
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Were you discussing high politics in the 5th grade or something? Because there's little opposing views in school up to say senior high school years!

So now school's purpose is no longer critical thinking but just socialisation with all social strata.