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Agreed yea. I recently shifted mine to all a single color and like the look a lot more. It makes the open Thermaltake Core P3 case look quite striking.

In terms of the "why" for this kind of thing, I guess if I'm going to be staring at a computer screen and computer all day, I want it to look interesting. The P3 case is open with a large glass plate on the front (look it up), and I've got it mounted directly on my wall. It does nothing for my computer's performance, but it makes my time at the computer more pleasant.
I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on.

AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware.

Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked like brushed metal fridge and was one of the first cases to care about sound isolation. No window panel, so nobody cares how much of a mess my wiring is, and I can buy the RAM that's on sale instead of the one with color coordinated heatspreaders.

But if other people are into that, power to them.

Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top" build and ditch the suspended computer mount completely, assuming I still even want to have a full desktop computer 10 years from now.
Admittedtly without evidence, I would speculate that they ran up against institutional players who had better lobbying power for this industry. There is no technical limitation to explain why our healthcare system sucks, it's some crazy combination of inefficient policies, beaurocracies, and established parties who benefit from the preceding two. But agreed, would love to see more.
Assange first provided the cables to newspapers like The Guardian, Der Spiegel and El Pais, so that they could write articles about them. After they had had time to work through the material and write up a series of articles, WikiLeaks published redacted versions of the cables.
Did you have one of those books that was organized by number, instead of name? I didn't.
Taking threads further into flamewar like this will get you banned here. Personal attacks especially.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Man, I really don't get the point of this. (And I mean the game in general, not just the sale of this franchise.) It's like blockchain play-acting.

Using a blockchain to track the status of objects which only exist within an online game, and which are only accessible within that game, makes no sense to me. Ultimately, the status of those objects is subject to the whims of the game and its operator, not the blockchain -- since they control the rules of the game. If they want to make the game stop recognizing your "property", or change what it represents in game, that's always something they can do; throwing a blockchain at it doesn't change that.

Also: I can't help but feel really suspicious about a game whose primary feature appears to be its monetization strategy, rather than its gameplay. (Read the rest of the blog -- there's virtually nothing in there about what the game actually is!) Does anyone actually play these games to have fun, or is it just a way for cryptocurrency fans to find even more esoteric things to invest in?
My first job at a defense contractor in the midwest started at $70k. This was an employee owned company, but my understanding is that salaries are fairly similar at other defense contractors. Interestingly, it got to the point where the government employees we worked next to made more than us. Usually the deal is they get great benefits, but lower pay. However, pay seemed to be pretty stagnant at my contractor (nice folks though).

Taking the same salary to live near Seattle (Everett, I suppose, but the point stands) is a substantial pay cut.

I now work at a different defense contractor, across the street from said Boeing plant and came in with ~3y experience for ~$110k. Certainly much lower than a true "tech company", but it was tens of thousands of dollars higher than where I'd fall on the Boeing pay scales.
Sounds like Linden dollars and Second Life... round 2
Does this mean he tweeted something “mean” and got on a discord hate list, or is there actually something problematic with regard to paid sponsorships / reviews?
i recommend looking this video from the author of one of the books cited:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gitzyxBsg
It's very easy to predict that someone somewhere will attack 5G infrastructure, but it's very hard to predict who and what part of it and it's that latter bit that's really the useful stuff.
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Of all the China disappearing acts, the one that still blows me away the most was what happened to the panchen lama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
> Most great work is done in teams.

But most teams don't produce great work - it's all dependent on the team makeup, bringing it back around to individuals.

I wish I was on a great team again - they seem harder and harder to find.
Facebook and other vendors killed XMPP, we lived in a non federated world in Enterprise and consumer. No interest of companies to change this
> … doesn't really do much to alleviate this … It's easy to criticize.

Indeed.

Especially easy if it's just fault-finding without any suggestion as to what might be done to "alleviate this" :-)
Companies are exploiting because united states want them to. There is a reason why a group of people(mostly Indians) are kept into the state of limbo. The fake fraternity angle is BS. Even the immigrant communities(demonstrated from Iranian immigrants protest against S386) want to keep it this way, so few can get bigger pie at the expanse of other. Everyone needs to know and understand the truth behind the so called fraternity. Would an Asian/Indian/Chinese would get same kind of protection as compared to their white/black counterparts. I doubt it.
I've worked from home pretty much my entire career (over 20 years now, and am fortunate to have a dedicated office) and the last thing I ever want to do is work from bed.

I need some distance between my bedroom and office both physically and mentally.
You will also get a pause in new hires in late December for the same reason. I've certainly accepted an offer late in the year and then didn't start until the new year.

Probably not as big of a rush as the end of school year rush in summer though.

I also doubt that new people will be breaking production on day one. Even at a fast moving startup I'd expect it to take a bit to go through the onboarding paperwork, get a laptop and actually try pushing a change to production.
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These are all real problems, especially in a lot of today's older unions that have been completely hollowed out and have become a kind of do-nothing "labor aristocracy."

They don't function as democratic institutions serving laborers' interests anymore, only their own narrow, elite, institutional needs--often institutional self-preservation at the expense of their members' interests. They're decrepit, corrupt dinosaurs, just like the Right says. But they got that way by losing the fight in the 20th century. Now they're kind of useless vestiges just waiting around to slough off eventually.

So the old unions are no model to emulate here. But just noting that and giving up of course leaves the problem of my lack of power in the workplace completely unsolved.

> One thing that wont happen: better working conditions.

I still want better working conditions though, for me and for everybody. What do you suggest?
It's true that they cast a lot of locals, but mostly in the background roles. Practically all of the leads and recurring characters were cast out of New York City.

It's a bit of a thing here. DC and Baltimore actors will take jobs in New York to get NYC credits on their resumes. They'll sometimes get post office boxes in NYC just so that casting directors won't write them off, then drive up for the actual audition. Only then will they find it possible to get cast for major projects being filmed in the city where they live.

The locals will get background work, hoping to be noticed, and occasionally it even happens.

It's not that there's resentment to The Wire or Homicide, which really kick-started the local television industry. But there's a bitter irony of playing second-fiddle (and third-fiddle) to so many out of towners in a city with a thriving industry and a lot of local talent.

Acting is, of course, a crummy line of work to be in regardless. It's not like your Broadway dreams come true just by moving up I-95.
Technically gold isn't impossible to manufacture as there are scientists and labs fully capable of making it, but it costs more energy to make than its value... For now... Let's remember that episode of the Twilight Zone when the gold thief goes into the future only to find out gold is manufactured and worthless.

Gold lasts forever, it doesn't tarnish, rust, or corrode, that much is true. But it still could be stolen, or potentially damaged (like a big house fire). I suppose bitcoin could be stolen or lost as well though, but as it's not actually physical it should be easier to protect.

Gold is beautiful so that's an excellent point as well. It can be turned into jewelry and such.

Bitcoin isn't really the opposite though in every regard. It may not be physical but it's very difficult to "mine" and it gets harder every year. Plus there will come a day when it can no longer be mined at all, making it even more rare than gold, and impossible to produce more of.
I certainly wouldn't consider it competitive. I don't know how much of it is union dues.
A bit of an overview of the game here:

https://egamers.io/this-new-mmorpg-sells-5-citadels-for-1-36...
I’ve held Bitcoin for over 7 years and haven’t eaten meat for 10 of those. I’m pretty sure this person, like many others, are trying to capitalize on Bitcoin being in the news to increase their follower count.

They are asking for subscribers.
Whoa—it's one thing to make claims about humour but quite another to drop nationalistic flamebait in the middle. Please definitely don't do anything like that—it leads to hell.

Re humour, the issue is not jokes, it's lame jokes. Most people overestimate how funny theirs are, and there's a power-law decline in funniness as others jump in and pile on.

scott_s described this best years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%227609289%22&dateRange=all&pa...
The problem is that XMPP and Matrix are protocols, not products.

Element (the primary Matrix software) definitely has Slack and Discord in its sights.

I don't think there are any serious "self-hosted Slack-like" contenders that are XMPP-based right now. You can piece components together (yay, standards!) and I did exactly this for the IETF's XMPP deployment recently. But it's far from being a cohesive easy-to-deploy product. Simply because nobody is building that right now. It takes time and resources and there's no money in it.[1]

People who do set out to build Slack clones (projects like Mattermost and Rocket Chat) and earn money don't have features such as federation on their priority list and don't build on top of Matrix/XMPP. They roll their own custom protocols and as far as I can see they are fairly content with that decision.

[1] There's even less money it, but nevertheless I am currently working on such a self-hostable "package" for XMPP. However rather than focusing on the team chat use-case (Slack/etc.) I'm focusing on personal messaging (WhatsApp/etc.): https://snikket.org/ if you're interested. It's possible I will broaden the scope one day.

EDIT: typo
It is a very interesting topic. Psychiatry was tried to be a branch of medicine, but it didn't work that way. Freud came as a kind of a doctor for mind, calling his clients 'patients' and mimicking "real" doctors in any way he could. It didn't work either. But while psychoanalysis and psychotherapy were a luxury for the rich, psychiatry often worked with people who didn't asked for a treatment or even resisted treatment.

I mean, the struggles of a psychiatry to become a science are shared by a psychology. A psychology mostly was nicer to people, because it was kept further from extreme cases, it had a freedom to keep an ethical stance by ignoring ethically difficult cases. I guess it is hard to remain human while forcefully treating a patient on the basis of some shitty theory of mind's diseases.
You should de-amp your URLs:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/fan-bingbing-c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Klarner

When I was in school Dr Klarner was looking into that exact problem. He had it pretty well dialed in on 2d. Once you move to 3d though it becomes a strange problem as what was once optimal for 2d may no longer be in 3d.

In practical terms though time/speed is usually more important in packing. For example you may have optimal packing but it takes 10 hours to physically pack it out is not great. Optimal load size is usually better if you have fixed size packages that interlock in some known pattern or are willing to allow some slack.
I wanted to try and understand what the "anti-5G" crowd's concerns actually are so I checked out some of the "Why are people afraid of 5G" posts on Quora.

Honestly, the top responses almost read like neural network generated proto-english [1] Some range from level headed [2] to pseudo-scientific babble [3].

[3] is interesting to dissect. It seems to be based on a misinterpretation of how electron spin spectroscopy works along with a healthy dose of hocus-pocus involving "EMF meters".

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-afraid-of-5g

[2] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-people-are-scared-of-5G...

[3] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-scared-of-5G-and-mak...

Edit: I've been trying to find a more balanced look at the issue, I liked this one by Larry Desjardin on EDN: https://www.edn.com/does-5g-pose-health-risks-part-2/

The TLDR is that recent IEEE research indicates that the traditional model of sub-THz radiation absorption (1-2mm deep at most in human skin) may not be the whole picture. Whether this indicates harm to humans is still unknown.
There are apparently-serious papers by economists about self-assessment taxes. (Well, somewhat serious; it seems to be a theoretical discussion.) For example:

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

Apparently this is sometimes called a "Harberger tax" after the economist who proposed it in 1965. Maybe that's where Heinlein got it?

I first saw this in a blog post by Robert Hanson, back when I still read him.
Because it requires a non-trivial amount of static analysis work on the compiler side to make the UX comfortable. Rust's borrow checker mechanism took years to become pleasant for the end user to use. There is still next to no adoption of Ada outside of aerospace, defence, and certain embedded programming sectors.
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> I remember a while back there were a number of stories about Chinese government officials embezzling money and then fleeing the country suddenly over night.
At that time that seemed pretty brazen, but perhaps those folks are more aware of how often random people who displease the powers that be may be disappeared or used as an example... and they knew that if there was any risk it was time to get out of town. This is far from the only example of business people, even local celebs disappearing for a time.

Unless you can buy/obtain citizenship from somewhere else, that only gets you so far. Eventually China will get you back on Chinese soil. You're going to need a passport renewal eventually.

China is widely known for pursuing dissidents outside its borders and is not above kidnapping. They also have the political leverage to make Khashoggi-like incidents go away.
He'd be in court for the next twenty years, but even then likely civil and not criminal. He wouldn't be blackbagged.
Stop speculating. The CCP has its reasons. This is how it works over there. Fix your own problems first, acknowledge and work up the death of almost 100 mio Indians, fix the shit you created in the Middle East, stop doing war crimes all around the world and stop running secret prisons. THEN you have the moral ground to speak about shit China is doing.
Yes please; personally, I've had couple of decades of training and habits that a change in cursor indicates clickability; without my cursor changing, it feels like a static image, not interactive page.

Otherwise, awesome sauce :)
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There you go, see the links and abstracts below.

But you're emotional, I doubt these sources will change your mind. Have a nice day!

https://www.benjaminborn.de/publication/bdm_lockdown_2020/

> While most countries imposed a lockdown in response to COVID-19, Sweden did not. To quantify the lockdown effect, we approximate a counterfactual lockdown scenario for Sweden through the outcome in a synthetic control unit. We find, first, that a 9-week lockdown in the first half of 2020 would have reduced infections and deaths by about 75% and 50%, respectively. Second, the lockdown effect starts to materialize with a delay of 3-4 weeks only. Third, the actual adjustment of mobility patterns in Sweden suggests there has been substantial voluntary social restraint, although the adjustment was less strong than under the lockdown scenario. Lastly, we find that a lockdown would not have caused much additional output loss.

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32034-1/full...

> Lockdown therefore appears to have been successful not only in alleviating the burden on the intensive care units of the two most severely affected regions of France, but also in preventing uncontrolled epidemics in other regions. These simple obser­vations support results from other studies which have estimated the impact of lockdown on SARS-CoV-2 spread to be strong.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S204908012...

> COVID-19's daily increasing cases and deaths have led to worldwide lockdown, quarantine and some restrictions. This study aims to analyze the effect of lockdown days on the spread of coronavirus in countries. COVID-19 cases and lockdown days data were collected for 49 countries that implemented the lockdown between certain dates (without interruption). The correlation tests were used for data analysis based on unconstrained (normal) and constrained (Tukey-lambda). The lockdown days was significantly correlated with COVID-19 pandemic based on unconstrained (r = −0.9126, F-ratio = 6.1654; t-ratio = 2.40; prob > .0203 with 49 observations) and based on Tukey-lambda (r = 0.7402, λ = 0.14). The lockdown, one of the social isolation restrictions, has been observed to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic, and showed that the spread of the virus can be significantly reduced by this preventive restriction in this study. This study offers initial evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic can be suppressed by a lockdown. The application of lockdown by governments is also thought to be effective on psychology, environment and economy besides having impact on Covid-19.
>assuming it was used in the show’s production

There are only two blurry photos of an old Hasselhoff in the car. I suspect someone has converted an old car, and agreed to pay Hasselhoff well for the privilege of putting his name on the title.

It's like the home contractors who reluctantly sell "the builder's own dream home" every year.
> Assange tried (at least he claims he tried) to get the US government to help him remove names that it felt should not be released. The US government refused. Which is perfectly understandable: why should the US government tell Wikileaks exactly which names in some leaked documents are the names of actual US government informants? That would be stupid.

If that's stupid then complaining asking him to redact names without telling him which ones is even more stupid and gives the U.S. no right to complain. Especially when top secret is used to conceal war crimes.

> Assange then chose to release all the material anyway

Not publishing war crimes because those who commited them refuse to cooperate in redacting names would be a great way for the Pentagon to make sure their crimes stay hidden. In fact it appears that was their goal in not cooperating.

> Newspapers, in the same position, did not publish the names.

Newspapers were NOT in the same position. They published the leaks but Pentagon started cooperating with them by then.

It's remarkable that people exposing war criminals get more blame that actual war criminals who did not face any consequences and laughed about while murdering civilians including journalists.
Their union seems to be more social justice focused than I'd be interested in joining, e.g. "achieve just outcomes, social and economic justice are paramount".

I'd be much more interested in tackling things like non-competes, employee ownership of side projects, better vesting schedules, better direction for the company, salaries, revisiting how many H1B visas there are, etc.
critical infrastructure is one thing.. Media outlets that let articles and conspiracy theories circulate, that promotes this sort of infrastructure destruction, should be punished.
> They are entirely different products.

Well, if you have to say it...

Was going through both of them again, and curation-wise, they're both landfills. At least on bandcamp I can search for genre/city, but for say, electronic music, you have to sift through stuff that is literally disgusting to find the gems. It's when they mix things that aren't meant to be mixed, they create that kind of dread. Good for bandcamp being profitable though, that's very good news. I'm probably just not their target market.
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It’s a good deal, but only for the EU. They have a goods trade surplus with the UK and they retain their free trade agreement. The UK has a services trade surplus with the EU (particularly financial services) and that is not included in the deal.
It’s not all that surprising that the UK lost out in the negotiations - this is what tends to happen when a smaller economy negotiates with a larger one.