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The UN is not unified on the uighur camps, so it would have to be individual countries at the national level. The UN has voted on several resolutions regarding Chinese policy in Xinjiang. Many countries abstain from voting and of those that vote, more vote in support than vote to denounce.
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urbanization doesn't matter either. it's indoor mixing density (which population density and urbanization poorly approximate in this case) that matters. that's again why the key mitigation is to avoid breathing others' direct exhaust, which is most directly heuristicized by distancing indoors (which implicitly addresses density, unlike masks which only help at the margins and are mostly performative due to their counterintuitive failure modes, such as every breath rehydrating and potentially dislodging virus particles otherwise caught in the mask).
Timestamping documents via their hash
Yeah, I'll give you that.
maybe above a certain age it's avoidable. I'm pretty sure my two year old isn't going to keep her fingers out of my mouth no matter what I explain.
Trapped in the Psychological Game
Why not use a chip intended for that?

https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/AT86RF215IQ

It's less than 4€ and you can build and SDR with it

https://tinysdr.org/

https://github.com/uw-x/tinysdr
Bold claim Cotton, let's see if it works out... Joking aside, that is based upon the mostly discredited 'herd immunity' theory. It is not the case that someone who is in a vulnerable population is somehow doomed to die from this disease, and there are many different ways to mitigate the problems as countries respond to the ebb and flow of the different Covid waves. When the neighboring countries open up (and several of them have partially opened at times) they have more medical resources available to mitigate the effects and they are more prepared to revert to lockdown if necessary.
Not the first and won't be the last time this has happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
> white supremacist groups were responsible for 41 of 61 “terrorist plots and attacks” in the first eight months of this year, or 67 percent.

So about the same as the share of the white population. Or do we only normalize by population numbers when it comes to police killings?
Plus 4-5 government topplings, invasions, and occupations in the last 20 years. But that's "in the past" too.
I never justified it. Nothing was justified here at all. There was also no argument made by me. Nor did I say you were defending the US. All I asked was a question:

What action should you take if there are repeated terrorist acts happening in your country where people are slaughtered by the hundreds? You only know the origin of these terror attacks originate from a specific cultural ethnic group, and you know you need to stop the attacks now or the next attack could harm your family.

It's a hard question, but posing a hard question isn't a justification of of the atrocities committed by China. It's more of an illustration of the complexity of the situation and an illustration of the darker capabilities that can erupt from within every individual when the situation is extreme... Anyway the question still stands... what would you do?

The other part of the of the question is to help people rise to a higher level and analyze the full complexity of the situation rather than have a simple minded gut reaction to everything. The world is complex and no single action can really be placed in a "justified" box or an "unjustified" box, yet this is how people think.
I hear ya that the job market for CEOs is what it is. That sounds like a system that needs subverting or circumventing. Perhaps management from other Non-profit organizations with a less market-driven culture can prove more fertile ground.

Recruit a new CEO from somewhere like the EFF's management. Find someone willing to take a relatively middle class salary of $150K with good benefits, but who will gleefully use their newfound authority in efforts for Internet Freedom.

The node.js monoculture in browsers actually scares me. The code from chromium inside firefox (not just widevine) actually scares me. The spyware and "pocket" inside firefox actually scares me.

Give me leadership worth trusting, and I'll happily follow. Give me leadership that understands the bottom-up nature of FLOSS software leadership, and finds creative ways to encourage it, rather than gatekeep independent developers out.

Give me leadership that isnt just another goddamned Russian Nail Factory tale, using "independence" as branding while they take money to set our default search engine to an abusive content scraper.

How will they make money? The VPN service is popular. The notes application was nice.

The premium services were/are legit nice - and I want to hear about them from... Not the browser itself, aside from an update-page.

A firefox-branded adblock option? That keeps 1-in-10 ads, but replaces them with "thank you" notes and links to tutorials? That takes proactive lead on maintaining the effort to block ads, and subvert anti-adblock measures? And canvas fingerprinting subversion? All in a single, user-friendly but deeply-customizeable addon? I'd pay money for that, especially if it comes with the mullvad/wireguard VPN using a simplified frontend.

I'd love to see the firefox VPN have an experimental double-hop option (mullvad does this stable-ly already) where the entry-point is automatically securely-selected. And has a few white-noise features for use with wifi (and user-selectable on cell-data) to obifuscate against traffic correlation analysis.

There is sooo much potential in the firefox organization. But to see is squandered this way? Is heartbreaking.
(Yes to the earlier post - had a similar experience with an early metrics system for Twilio in 2012-2013)

The 1st issue is that ZMQ implementations generally have an IO thread handling all socket IO. REQ/REP patterns tend to work out just fine, because the client is going to wait for a reply from the server. But things like PUSH/PULL become...harder to follow. You can push things in the client, but how do you know when they've flushed out of the IO thread and made it to the server? Those sorts of things matter when shutting down a process, running integration tests, etc. In contrast, with an HTTP request, you're basically always doing REQ/REP, and so you know when the data has been pushed.

The 2nd issue is that ZMQ implementations tend to be harder to observe / operate than a more common path like HTTP requests. (HTTP requests can go through a load balancer, have standard response codes, use headers for authorization, etc.) For these reasons, I've tended to avoid ZMQ ever after -- it seems like often, you're best off either using REST or GRPC if by HTTP, or raw TCP if it's purely a data push kind of operation (e.g. forwarding structured logs, with framing, to a remote TLS endpoint).
I guess you feel the same about what Macron is doing?
notifications, too. they keep re-sending me a message in the play store app to turn on system notifications for the play store.
Being a nothing story won't stop it from getting upvotes on hn since software folks are somehow progressive but about as tolerant of religion as the Chinese.

>It turned out to be far-right-wing churches, conservative churches in the US. And they've built a platform that targets mentally ill or vulnerable people in order to draw them into church, to monetize them through donations. That's the short-term goal. To help them is the facade for it, but ultimately the aim is to convert them to the politics of the far right.
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So get this, a church wanted to "radicalize" (recruit) people from downtrodden groups and then had the nerve to ask for donations! How do these people live with themselves? This is almost as bad as those advertising agencies that radicalize consumers into buying their products!
I know this question is probably intended as a technical one, but from a pragmatic/empirical perspective, the number one use-case of the blockchain is to raise money in a way that side-steps traditional causes of friction (e.g. financial regulations).

(I make no judgement on whether these sources of friction are worthwhile or not.)
Decentralized and private cloud data storage: https://sia.tech

The benefit from using blockchain is that your data will be safely replicated and accessible from the cloud, and at the same time you are the sole owner of the data. Only your private key can access the data.

In this case, blockchain also facilitates a decentralized marketplace for sellers and buyers of data storage.
> It is really a pity that so many people can't or don't want to acknowledge the nature of engineering work, and hold imperfections against the creators, or the concepts they try to implement.

This would be a great stretch if it was meant to be a reply rather than a generic statement. To me the increasing irrelevance of a term "functional" is in fact the biggest success of the FP: it is entering the realm shared by, say, the term "structural programming" which is so universal that it became meaningless. It is an amazing feat given that no other terms for programming paradigms ever have been close this much!

Given any standard about the FP, there is a definite disparity between languages that should be called functional and languages that are actually called functional. I think the increasing universality of functional paradigm explains this, and kibwen is merely proposing another term describing the latter.
The Streisand effect?
I've always maintained that school rewards a certain style of learner quite well. Being the right kind is more important than being smart.
How do you test backups? (I have the same setup but with some extra paranoia layers that I'm looking to relax.)
> The Ø in ZeroMQ is all about tradeoffs. On the one hand this strange name lowers ZeroMQ’s visibility on Google and Twitter. On the other hand it annoys the heck out of some Danish folk who write us things like “ØMG røtfl”, and “Ø is not a funny looking zero!” and “Rødgrød med fløde!”, which is apparently an insult that means “may your neighbours be the direct descendants of Grendel!” Seems like a fair trade.

https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/preface/#The-Zen-of-Zero
I am not well-versed in the details of Macron is doing regards Islam in France, but I am certain that he is not committing genocide, which is what the CCP is doing, and what the OP is defending. Like arguing that the Nazis were doing the jews a favour with the holocaust. Beyond, beyond, beyond ludicrous. I don't even know where to begin with the idea that the victims of genocide benefit in any way from said genocide.
Cryptocurrncies. That's it.

Edit: lots of downvotes for this comment but the evidence speaks for itself.
Chinese Fintech Firm Lufax Seeks Up to $2.36B in IPO
If Github goes down today, Gitlab will be able to do their usual "but we did it first!" post.
Genocide.
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> I believe developers should strive to make their software run as efficiently as they can.

This is not realistic. Performance doesn't just happen. Within limited constraints, focusing on performance will necessarily imply less feature.

Ultimately, it's about balance. Personally I find VSC's performance to be good, and at lot of other devs find it at least good enough (it's a widespread editor). I've actually switched away from ST3 because the development of their current version stagnated, and there are unresolved bugs and limitations that affected my everyday usage.

In other words, the performance/features (and let's throw flexibility) balance of VSC is, for me, better than ST's (others may have have different requirements and different balances, of course).

Ultimately, VSC is a bad example of tradeoff performance/ease of (internal) development. If people wants to find an example, Slack is by far the best (worst).
The biggest use case I have found of blockchain tech is timestamping, especially in a case where the timestamping party cannot be trusted to act honestly because of conflicting interests.

I'll give you an example, from one of my startup's enterprise customers. This company needs to ensure that their high-end auto inventory remains in the same state through transport — the mileage, the car body, etc. They've had issues with transporters taking these high-end cars for joyrides, and it's hard to detect when this happens.

Our solution lets the transporter timestamp the odometer reading and car body with photos at time of pickup, on a blockchain. When the car is dropped off, it's just a matter of comparing the blockchain record with the car's actual state. Our system lets many parties who don't know or trust each other view the same "shared state" on a public blockchain ledger (Stellar), enforcing between these parties.

We provide a similar service for researchers who want to prove they were the first ones to make a discovery. You can read more about that at https://assembl.net.

Edit: You can try our timestamping app (still in beta so excuse some kinks) online at https://app.assembl.net. I would love to hear your thoughts!
Addressing indiviuals for group behaviour is bullshit.

It's pointless. Actions that address the result of group behaviour need to come from the group (government). All else is just grandstanding.
Not an expert or lawyer, but the US FSIA has an exception for commercial activity carried out by the state in the US, which seems pretty much like the exact scenario here.
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There is a tool called "rasterbator" that can print large images out tile-by-tile "Wall Art Generator" https://rasterbator.net/
> I just wanted a break from life.

I feel that often.

Even a drug coma isn't enough. I'd come back to new bills and house maintenance or other little adult annoyances like that. And my friends and family would age without me.

My ideal vacation would be: Quit work at 5 pm Tuesday, do whatever I like for a year, and come back to work at 9 am Wednesday.
That's an use-case for cryptocurrency, not blockchain. The title asked use-cases that are not currency.
That's not really true. Op is programming in erlang, which has never in it's history been pure functional, and specifically picked the functional paradigm for pragmatic reasons (function-internal immutability and limited global state gives the programmer guardrails), not for pure mathematical reasons.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that the moneyed class doesn't want everyone to understand money and finance. People uneducated about marginal tax rates are more likely to vote down tax increases, turn down raises because they'll "go up a tax bracket", and not try to change the difference between tax rates on earned and unearned income. People who don't understand retirement savings are less likely to meet their 401k match, or ask awkward questions about why the 401k/IRA/Roth/pension system is so confusing and convoluted, and so geared towards earning financial institutions fees. People who don't understand monetary policy, deficits, and fractional reserve banking won't make a fuss over QE or have an opinion on interest rates, and can easily be manipulated with cries of "OMG deficits! Irresponsible government!". People who don't understand debt and cash flow will make shortsighted decisions like financing expensive vehicles or taking out payday loans. All of this is beneficial to capital owners (yours truly included).

Using Hanlon's razor though, it's more likely that educators themselves don't understand this stuff so don't consider it important to teach. Most parents don't understand either, so they don't demand that it be taught. And those few parents who do understand its importance just teach their kids by themselves.
> Hats off to those who find motivation to live without that.

My motivation is that the odds of me actually existing in the first place are so long that I'd be a fool to waste my brief time in the universe.

Looked at through that point of view everything is amazing from a tree leaf to the latest giga image of Orion.

"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going." - Edward Robert Harrison.

Think of all the amount of time and events that had to take place for you to be able to contemplate the universe.

Spend some time looking at https://orion2020v5b.spaceforeverybody.com/ zoom in and realise that everyone of those white dots is a star, they where around for millions or billions of years before the statistically unlikely event that led you to be able to look at the dots, they'll largely be around for billion years after you are gone, to me that is the true meaning of awe - that I can sit here with a coffee and get to in a very small way comprehend a very small part of a vast universe.

I get to appreciate it because a million and a half years ago my ancestor took the left path and not the right, the one with the predator, I get to appreciate it because two thousand years ago my ancestor didn't drink from the strange smelling stream and because 40 years ago the cashier at the petrol station agreed to a date with the security guard doing the cash pickup, it's all random, there is no meaning but what we ascribe.
Modi is a racist populist shitbag. How can you call what happened in Kashmir an "initiative to help minorities"? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Jammu_and_Ka... for those unfamiliar.)

The list was not intended to be exhaustive, and now you are engaging in whataboutism. I listed some nations that have been good at hiding or cloaking their ethnic cleansing and that have a lot of HN readers. The House of Saud doesn't hide it and has probably fewer HN readers than, I don't know, Oklahoma.
Thanks! Have edited my comment
Can definitely relate, Anki started to make sense after I started creating my own cards. Not batch-creating mind you, but carefully crafting each one, and updating when necessary while reviewing.
I don’t know how authentic this is. Last time a person did something like this on Reddit AMA was a CIA operative. https://www.reddit.com/r/LegitJustNoMIL/comments/e9xxry/be_c...
NASA collected a sample from Bennu, but some of it is leaking into space
If you're going to let foreign adversaries collect compromat and pump it into your election cycle the reasonable expectation is that the candidates who win are the ones that will comply with the requests of the foreign adversary. I agree that trying to censor the story is an ineffective method of preventing this kind of foreign interference in US elections, but we need a realistic alternative before we abandon it.

Also to be clear, the veracity of the story is far from certain - between Fox refusing to take the story, and the WSJ having it's news division basically fact check its opinion division this isn't some clear case.
Is that even possible?

What is made in the US that doesn't buy raw materials or partially assembled materials from china?
That presumes that $600k spent on something increases the value by that much and it also assumes that you can easily scale up revenue with the same profit margin based on the value of the company increasing.

The latter is absolutely not a given and the former is only really safe if you invest the money in something that isn’t really an investment in the business.

Phrased differently, if you had a magic cash printing business like this that can safely scale up with more money you would be absolutely stupid to not do it regardless of the tax rates.
This tells your “what” not “why”.

I prefer the “replacement for socket” pitch, personally.
why does it need a distributed blockchain though? Why not just put it in a database?
The biggest limitation I found was the lack of reliable delivery semantics.
That's the theory, but desktop environments often won't run your `.bash_profile` or `.profile` (so you won't end up with environment variables set in graphical apps), and then most terminal emulators don't run login shells by default (so you won't end up with environment variables set in your shells either). And even if your terminal emulator runs a login shell, you'll only have environment variable set in your shells, which will lead to problems when graphical apps don't have the same variables set.
Say what you want about Trump, who is a completely disgusting individual, but I have seen more progress this presidential term in this regard than ever before.
There was significant precedent on the 2A, I did read Heller, and happened to do my university thesis on US Constitutional and Legal History. Mine was a crim pro focus but still trod similar ground back in the early 90s when Miller and Lewis were the precedents to cite, and a significant part of the years of coursework and months of research was going to actual source on things like what was meant by certain terms and supporting material in the time they were written. I assure you that I know more about this subject than you or whatever NRA pamphlet you last read on the subject. Heller is an embarrassment to Scalia's carefully cultivated image and will eventually be viewed as his Dred Scott.
This is a really long winded way of being apologetic about bad practice.

Patients lie all the time, but if a patient warns them they have received no pain medication or muscle relaxants or whatever, then their job was to check their medical record or with the staff nurse if it was true or not. Any other argument is a distraction.
Now. Maybe. But when Walmart was #1 they could have - and should have - never let Amazon and the like get a toe hold. Jeff ran up and over Walmart in less than a decade. It took Walmart well over a decade - and a few acquisition - to find their feet and sort it out.

David is so far ahead Walmart is looking in the mirror thinking they're ahead :)
Damn man, please have some compassion for others who may not have as high a pain tolerance threshold as you. Not everybody experiences everything exactly the same.
What's your alternative for DNS/CAs? Let's say someone wanted to host the source code for youtube-dl. How would that look on Peergos, and would it be an improvement over the current system?
The encrypted memo field of Zcash could lend itself to some interesting use-cases outside of transaction processing.

https://electriccoin.co/blog/encrypted-memo-field/

It looks like this capability is being expanded with in-band secret distribution:

https://zips.z.cash/protocol/canopy.pdf
you misunderstood - it's not limited to cryptocurrency or even DLT - in making the whole scheme elaborate you bypass the traditional AML/KYC regulations - anyone can buy your 'token' without setting up a legal account or using a legal source of funding such as a credit card.
Of course it's better to train and all that, I'm saying it's probably not a good idea to somehow have a global solution to all kinds of relationship between every type of company and employee. Every industry and every company will have different solutions to what they need and they'll know best how to set their employees for success. This is all done in a mutual agreement. A better strategy is having everyone understand their options in order to make better decisions when it comes to choosing an employer/employee, and again all of this is specific to the industry.

The problem with fighting worker rights is that not all workers are the same, and having a small group of people decide all the intricacies of the system for all industries is unrealistic. At the very least there would be a concerted and visible effort to adapt solutions for each industry, but that's not what happens, it's always some global abstract mandate that has unintended consequences. Politics is the ultimate solutioning by committee, so it's always inefficient and often hurtful to use politics to solve societal problems which are really the collection of the decisions people are making. Encouraging businesses is one thing, but deliberately blocking actions and forcing decisions on ALL business is almost never a good idea.