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> But there is no deng's economic leadership without mao meeting nixon. And mao doesn't meet nixon without hundred or thousands of sino-american meetings behind the scenes.

This makes no sense. If China were completely isolated, it would still have corrected to the point where it could operate without everybody just dying in the streets. And that correction would have been a suite of economic reforms, since the economic policies were what was making everybody die in the streets. An interaction with the United States might have hastened this, or included some minor US-specific side effects, but over the long term it's meaningless.
Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
Story damn near old as time at this point. There's nothing new to be said on the abstract of this event. Some say it's a private company, others say we're outsourcing the stewardship of too many of our public fora to private companies, others will insist that it's wrong in principal, others will say they're just being good custodians of the public dialogue. Nobody's mind will change.

Methodologically, I absolutely respect Wordpress's decision to give them advanced warning. If this were to become standard practice, I believe it would constitute a massive deescalation in the culture war/fight against possible misinformation.

Rather than attempting to wipe them from the internet with little notice, WordPress tersely informed them that they were no longer welcome, and gave them an eviction date.

Call me jaded, but at this point I find this to be a refreshingly civil attempt at a divorce.
I wonder what the stats would be on risk for regular transport. I've often heard that for many "dangerous" jobs, the actual most dangerous part is literally driving to and from the site.

I'm assuming that even without needing to worry about the speed limit, the sheer requirement of needing to deal with other (occasionally very stupid) drivers, high speeds, and environmental considerations (you don't get to pick when someone needs a transplant) would lead to a non-trivial number of crashes/lost organs/dead recipients and/or bystanders for any decently large number of trips. It certainly would be one high stakes line of work...
It’s often applied in problematic ways, but the basic concept seems pretty sound to me even from the most stringent Enlightenment assumptions. Every time someone treats their cancer with juice cleanses rather than chemotherapy, they’ve been harmed by dangerous misinformation.

What to do about dangerous misinformation is of course another question entirely, but the idea that there’s no such thing ignores important challenges.
Tulsa is 15.6% Black

San Francisco is 6.1% Black

Would maybe slow the roll on who is more diverse.
Right. That's why I said HTTPS and auth.

Auth to keep the bots out, and HTTPS because it's free and easy to add, and keeps network admins from sniffing your username and password.
Australia's "heritage" buildings are pretty funny by comparison to Europe, or even the USA, when you think about the age of them. Never thought about China's being newer still.
Hehe, back in college 10 years ago I tried to do the same with vanilla JS. Might not even load http://www.onlinesampler.com
There's just no way to argue with a group that wants to lie with impunity and support a leader that lies, breaks every norm and is generally showing signs of a being a dictator (I made the mistake of seeing his mental breakdown and tantrum on Twitter today). They'll call it censorship when you point it out, or call you a snowflake if you show that you're bothered by it.

This blog is basically calling for a coup. The "I don't agree with what you say but I'll defend it to the death" crowd are going to be the end of the United States.

I'm lucky enough that being a Canadian in Canada gives me enough separation from this that I can check out. My heart goes out to you folks that have to live it.
But it's total BS, there's a giant empty lawn abut 250 feet away to the southeast, at the intersection of Via Gattamelata and Via Alvise Cornaro.
Huh, the usual reasons I hear for why abortion is ethical is that either (a) the fetus isn't a person and has no rights, or (b) the woman's autonomy rights trump any rights the fetus might have. (a) indicates the monkey procedure was ethical, while (b) is a little more iffy.

But you're right, the argument (c) the woman's autonomy rights trump the fetus's rights but only when the fetus was unintended does indeed indicate the monkey operation was unethical. I'm not so sure that (c) is a very logical position though.
It's nice that they had the Lambo available! But had it not been, there are obviously flat fields likely suitable for helicopter landing nearby (notably a soccer pitch a short walk from the hospital).
> The reason they don't get hired is because it is always a gamble doing that.

So if you don't let them make an honest living, how the hell will they survive?? You claim they're all thieves and they don't want to be integrated, so you deny them any job prospects. And then you turn around and wonder why they steal!! How else will they feed their families or afford the basic necessities, man?

I'm not saying they're all honest people; but if the honest ones are not given a chance, they will have to resort to dishonest means.

It takes 2 to tango. You need both sides to make compromises.

This whole episode reminds me of how blacks were treated in America. Were it not for WW2, I wonder what the situation of blacks would be like in the USA.
Even more amazing is the ability to now run neural networks on MCUs drawing <mW of power!
I suspect they've done a/b testing to tweak the price of new vs repair in the favor of new.
Some people want a Nespresso.

Some people want a bean to cup espresso machine with built in grinder. Others want something similar, but insist on a separate grinder and brewer.

Some people want to hand grind their beans then put them through an Aeropress, possibly while sitting in a field.

A handful of organizations will brew by the ton, freeze dry the results, and sell it on as a kind of brewing as a service product. It’s worse and better at the same time.

The fact that these are all called coffee is a simplification that makes most comparisons more complicated.
Technically electrons barely move at all (on clock-cycle timescales); it's the electric field that moves at ~2/3 speed of light. Compare eg, wind speed (particles) versus the speed of sound (field).
For Linux users, it’s all about vendor support. More Linux users means that it actually becomes worth it for manufacturers to provide Linux support for their hardware.
Something that I learned recently that blew my mind was that gout is caused primarily from consuming DNA.

How? Gout is caused by a buildup of uric acid, which is created in the body as a byproduct of breaking down purines. Purines are essentially broken down pieces of DNA.

This makes sense when you discover that beer can cause or worsen gout, because of the large amount of yeast present, but other fermented beverages such as wine do not.

Obviously there are other factors that go into gout, and other causes too, but the primary cause is eating DNA!
I remember in the original God of War on PS1, I kept dying over and over, and the game offered to make the enemies weaker to help me out.

I appreciated the thought, but the problem was a jump I had trouble making.
That rate of property crime is a direct result of prosperity. In poor areas there is less stuff worth stealing and people spend more effort protecting it.

The average house in Riverdale Chicago is worth less than the average car in Silicon Vally. People there make less money from armed robbery than someone can shoplift from a Silicon Valley Apple store. So shockingly with different risk/reward payoffs you get more property crime instead of armed robbery.
How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads? Even if you had lights on, you’d come up on people so quickly they wouldn’t be able to get over fast enough. And surely they had to stop for fuel at least once unless they have some special gas tanks fitted? Seems difficult
The default is for humans to have rights, and in extreme cases those rights can be taken away.

It's very, very rare for a human to have to prove mental competence for any reason. We let mentally incompetent people grocery shop and drive cars and vote, knowing full well they're a danger (or at least not a net benefit). Every town in every country contains well-known incompetent citizens.

What's the default for intelligent non-humans?

Does each one have to prove mental competence? At what level: that of an average human, or that of the lowest competent human?

Is the default to assume they are competent, and have all the rights and privileges of a human, or is the default to assume they aren't competent and don't have those rights?

Personally, it makes sense to me to err on the side of "any being who tells me plainly that they want a vote gets to vote".
I am not sure it is a culture “sneaking” anywhere as much as openly and aggressively taking over. This is very true at least in Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Netflix. The intolerant far-left employees openly discuss personal politics on employee mailing lists and forums, unprofessionally spending paid company time on activism, strategizing on how they can control the company and use it to further their political agendas. They achieve their political ends by pressuring executives, pressuring HR, altering the company’s products, pushing policies (both internal and external) that support their views, etc. It is very hard to escape - you see it in mandatory “equity training”, in work conferences that invite far left speakers, and even in trivial things like where to get food for a team lunch (a vocal employee might demand that no money be spent on businesses whose owners don’t pass their purity test). Given how vocal and ruthless activist employees can be (due to the psychological safety of echo chambers), there is no room for any other view whatsoever. It is exhausting, unprofessional, and a big reason why claims of bias from big tech companies are real, not imagined.
This incident is a different discussion because while Twitter aggregates an audience, WordPress doesn't---it makes no difference to the readers if the site changes its host.

The discussion that would be germane is what infrastructure do we consider should be available to all, without regards to (legal) content. Colo? IaaS? PaaS? Access to payment networks?
yes, you're very clever ;).
https://xkcd.com/977/
Should I be able to enforce a code of conduct in my store? It’s closer to ejecting a patron for shouting racial slurs at the top of their lungs.

Doing a cursory skim, the actual blog content seems alarmist but probably not violating. The comments are a trash fire with lots of blatant calls to violence. I suspect they’re in trouble for that but would likely find the comment moderation Wordpress is asking for to be against their principles.
> The real question is not, "Is this allowed?" but "Is this good, right, and proper?"

If leftists thought that way, they wouldn't be leftists. I'm sure a lot of people will find that offensive, but it really is in the left's political DNA, which is why you see bumper stickers like "Well-behaved women seldom make history."
Rats lack the long legs of cats that allow them to cushion their fall, though. Cats have a ton of adaptations that each help with some aspect of landing from a fall.
Is Wordpress really that hard to run?

Couldn’t they have just moved servers in the time it took to write that Conservative victim complex post?

I feel like tech companies should just kick luddites off the internet for being inept. Conservatives keep running these 1990s geocities websites wondering why their civil rights vigilance blogs aren't taken seriously. Lets update the terms of service to support that, it would be hilarious and affected people might learn some modern skills in the process. Maybe they’ll even become proponents of decentralization and actually do it.
America will collapse (by 2025) (2010)
> i don't get the point of showing me something I searched for on Amazon or Vitacost about an hour later.

(Disclaimer: this is a description of an advertising technique as currently used, not advocacy for that technique. All ads should go away whether personalized or not.)

This kind of ad is called "retargeting", and it turns out to be somewhat effective. If you're looking at a product, and you're debating whether to buy it, seeing it again makes it more likely you'll come back and make the purchase. (And, for that matter, makes it more likely you'll make the purchase there, rather than somewhere else.)
We put a man on the moon. At the hight of WW2 we built a liberty ship everyday. We have to have the will to do what is required. Not sure we have that anymore. In general Americans have lost the will to do the hard task that take time. We have lost faith in the power of our science and engineering. We want everything in 30 seconds sound bites. The lack of long term planning for the future of our children will be our down fall. Contrast our handling of Covid vs the Chinese, South Korean or NZ.

Bread and circus, the fall of Rome.
Australia has never been and will never be a sovereign nation. It used to be part of the british empire and is now part of the american led anglo-protectorate. They are part of the anglo world and I can't ever see us letting them leave.

Sovereign nations don't have foreign occupation forces. Japan and SK are occupied client/vassal/satellite states. We can call them allies if we want to save face, but if china or russia had occupation forces there, we'd call them vassals or satellites or client. Ultimately that's what they are.

We'd never call warsaw-pact nations sovereign states, wonder why we call japan or sk sovereign states?
What would count as basic human needs, according to your country’s constitution?
After this incident I’ve found it hard to buy the “but this is Apple” line of reasoning. I think their processes are just plain bad.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/macos...
> major merchants won battles with the Chinese imperial government

Enlighten me, please.
> As a programmer

> dropping to command line for configuring my system

Doesn't add up. You're a programmer, write a script if it bothers you?

> I find the user interface on windows nicer

Seriously though, expand on this. Interested in what you are comparing it to; Gnome, KDE, etc.
Are you talking about politicians or normal people? Avg people have no idea what Sunni and Shia mean. And we have many examples of high level politicians and bureaucrats who don't know what it means.

And that is before getting into any even remotely complex questions about Iraq and the Middle East.
A negligible amount. Property crime rate far exceeds violent crime rate in every US city.
>the POTUS actively undermining democracy?

I think the "POTUS actively undermining democracy" is a gaslighting / pearl clutching for what is a crass person but otherwise business as usual in the White House...

Apparently Patriot Act, mass surveillance, Guantanamo, the "WMD", Echelon, trillion dollar bailouts, false congress testimonies, etc weren't "undermining democracy", but an old guy tweeting some braggadocio/BS is.

And those that designed, established, and voted those things (e.g. Clinton, Bush, and Obama) are all love for each other, and all stand "united" against the "big threat" that is this guy...

Talk about a circus...
Yes. Even with 10x the amount of consumption based on current technologies. And 100 or 1000x with future technology.

Again, the same argument and question has been made 100s of years and every prediction based on what population growth implies for the future has not just been wrong, but 180 degrees in the wrong direction. At some point you have to ask yourself what you are missing, when repeating the exact same arguments, with literally nothing added.

10x more humans at 10x more the consumption would be a better world then the one we live in now.

The difference between a resource and dirt depends on technology. The amount of energy potential is almost unlimited, considering solar and nuclear power.
I hear this argument a lot, and I think you are missing a piece of the collective which is that we do already all agree on many things such as anything that can be misconstrued as child porn. I think there is a serious argument to be made for individual cultures and individual groups such as families who would want more choices for control, but I think the slippery slope argument doesn't really hold muster.
Yeahhhhh, given that the platform here is an install of an open-source CMS, which is presumably managed by a site admin, I personally wouldn't compare them to Twitter in the first place. WP straight-up describes the service as hosting in the letter cutting them off.

But what does get problematic is when your service is an auth provider for numerous others, and a major communication hub in itself, and it becomes possible for you to just suddenly get locked out half your life all in one fell swoop.

WP mostly sidesteps this issue, being an open source project that you're free to just host an instance of yourself. But consider Facebook, with a chat service that's more than a decade old and that covers a quarter of the planet -- and the reaction you would have if an equivalent platform were to lock you out of emails spanning that kind of time frame. Particularly given that it's a closed protocol, and as such any ability you do have to export that data is really only useful for archiving.
"try a bunch of them, for a week, and lost all the vibe all together."

Pretty sure "lost" is a typo but I can't figure out what the word was supposed to be.
You know that's a bullshit excuse because you wouldn't accept it from someone who knowingly caused you serious problems.
Are the originals German style modular switches (e.g. https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/energy/low-voltag...)? If so, what did you replace them with as I haven't seen any ZigBee switches that fit those.
> COVID-19 has a fatality rate between 1 and 10%

There's a whole slew of reasons why even 1% estimate is bullshit. Consider this: median age of COVID death is currently 78 years old. US all-age life expectancy as of 2018 is 78.9 years. That is, approximately half the people who are dying of this would die anyway that same year. Now granted, expectancy is a mean, not a median, but you get my point.

1% CFR means 3.3 million deaths in the US alone if everyone gets it, which everyone eventually will, and which exceeds even the most ridiculous estimates from March of this year by a factor of 1.5, and is quite obviously not going to happen.

It's also ridiculously difficult to track down this median age number for the US, by the way. I wonder why that is.

That's before we even consider how the US has 760 deaths per million, and the likes of Iran or Russia (which have nowhere near the medicine the US has) report one half and one third that correspondingly.

So yes, C19 quite obviously has substantially higher CFR than the flu, but 9 months in nobody has any idea as to how much higher. Anyone who says otherwise is selling you something.
Just for balance, I use KDE Plasma with an AMD graphics card but almost no games work, even those with a "gold" rating on ProtonDB.

I haven't had time to Google how to debug the problem, but only about 1 in 10 games "just work"

Update: OK, instead of surfing HN I googled the problem. I think it may be that my games are installed on an NTFS drive. I will try moving the installs to a new drive and see if I have more success!
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I would caution people against using the af11 or AF24 if they don't have to. Ubiquiti doesn't know how to make a serious radio.

For something like the af5xhd, it's a great little thing for its price, and with good quality antennas at both ends can make a very effective bridge. But for more serious things? No. It's so bad they haven't even been able to implement snmpv2 on their $1000+ radios. The af11 is so bad it only uses a 56MHz channel mask in an 80MHz channel.

No matter what manufacturer, serious ptp radios can be distinguished by two things: the presence of terminals for a direct -48vdc wiring connection and sfp/sfp+ ports.

At the very low end of cost, ubnt's 802.11ac chipset ptp bridge radios are great and very cost effective, I'm talking about the powerbeam ac series, nanobeam and similar. For when you want to buy a few hundred bucks of stuff on your credit card to link a few buildings together quickly. For anyone looking at that category of stuff they should also look at mikrotik and mimosa radios.
I am in that 17%.
The History of Socialism and Capitalism [video]
I attribute the success more to creating a tight and more complete personal network due to the campus focus early on. I do think the features of MySpace were a novelty that was also wearing off. And fb provided a cleaner bug free interface
Doesn't the US have a free trade agreement with Korea?
This reminds me of various videos I've seen where people strap the guts of a quadcopter to various lightweight things to make them fly (the most recent being the Corridor Crew video on making a flying Nerf gun), and they just...work. (With much shorter battery life.) Of course, that's almost entirely thanks to the control electronics - that sort of active stabilization enables almost anything to fly. You couldn't do the same thing with a passively-stable R/C airplane, for example (speaking from experience).
The Pope of the Catholic Church.
Dear Sir, you have no business doing anything other than making GOD famous. Stop this farting about with angels and pinheads and get down to work!
The comment you reply to was itself a response to a claim that this site in particular "never puts out any info without hard evidence". The comment you reply to disputes that. The rest of the internet is irrelevant.
That's certainly an interesting idea to generate more organ donors.
> i don't get the point of showing me something I searched for on Amazon or Vitacost about an hour later.

Anecdotally, I've often bought things from retargeted ads like these. It reminds me about things I was considering earlier.
No, this is literally what happens on FB. Anything public on the main platform is censored by Facebook. Anything in private groups are moderated by site admins (including removing spam, though users can still report classes of entirely banned things like violence, hate speech, etc -- but until a user reports, Facebook doesn't see).

Consider the alternative: public groups would get spammed by bots. There would be no more public groups.

Agnostic just isn't possible, because now you'll have to ask the question, "well what's spam?" For legal reasons you need to consider things like CSAI (https://protectingchildren.google/intl/en), and then ask yourself questions of morality like "is it OK that the platform I'm building helps to proliferate misinformation that is affecting election outcomes -- potentially damaging democracy, and is causing deaths by way of encouraging people to behave recklessly" ??? There's no way to build the platform and not ask these questions.
Last Windows-based system I used professionally was Win2K and it was bearable after some heavy-duty configuration.

Switched to MacOS around 2002. It was not user-hostile back then and a decent Unix env. and Apple seemed to be headed down the right path, promising to support FOSS.

Switched from MacOS to Linux circa 2008 when it became abundantly clear that Apple's "backing" of OpenSource was a complete hoax designed to attract FOSS hackers to the platform and lock them in (the only parts of the OS that were FOSS were the lower layers, the entire stack above it was closed source - a tiger simply can't change its stripes).

Never had to look back, and when I look at the locked-in walled garden privacy hell that OSX has become, boy am I glad I switched.
This just seems a naked protectionism argument.