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It is possible to eat meat and to value and respect animals. It requires the holding of two paradigms simultaneously. These paradigms are not incompatible or necessarily in conflict with each other.

Paradigm 1. Animals are awesome. Wanton killing is wrong.

Paradigm 2. Killing animals for food is OK provided the animal is killed humanely, the food is not wasted, and the animal is revered for its contribution.

Most people are able to do this. Some of them get lazy with the part about reverence, because the supermarket puts animals and the life cycle process out of sight and out of mind, hence there are few triggers for reverence.

Similarly, it is possible to use animals for scientific research and to value and respect animals. It requires the holding of two paradigms simultaneously. These paradigms are more difficult to state than in the case of carnivorous food above.
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> the monarchy should be abolished

Sure, that's a fine idea.

> Also, every member of the royal family should be stripped of their wealth and exiled.

Why, for using the power they rightfully have? Or just for the crime of having money? This seems very petty.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20757529
Some context: the Elfstedentocht has become pretty rare due to climate change. Now guess what, while currently being in lockdown, the possibility for an Elfstedentocht is increasing since it's pretty cold to our standards right now. This Elfstedentocht typically attracts hundred thousands of people. Interesting times.
Amazon is a shitty company. They can't even treat their warehouse workers as human beings. They use shitty practices to prevent unions. Fuck Amazon.
I've said this before, but one great source of ideas is to put yourself into different industries.

While it is difficult to become a management consultant, those guys get phenomenal exposure to most parts of a company. I've seen A LOT of B2B startups with founders that came from consulting, where they recognized some deficiency or need, somewhere down the production line.

Lots of "boring" ideas in "boring" fields of work that are worth big bucks.
It's happened to us multiple times and it's always a competitor trying to get out listings taken down. They look for any data fields on a listing that haven't been filled out by the seller (most likely because they didn't seem relevant to the product) and then they'll add words to these fields that the algorithms will pick up and cause the listing to be suspended. You can try to prevent it by making sure you are Brand Registered and uploading a flat file containing a value for every single field. Amazon will eventually reactivate listings that are attacked in this way but you can lose a lot of time and money waiting.
Just please set up DMARC so it allows forwarding a mail... Have had this problem a number of times lately, companies sending mail to us that just vanish in thin air without any explanation. Turns out an alias adress is forwarding their mail to whoever is supposed to handle their mail at the moment and this is not allowed due to how they set up DMARC. The mail server just drops the mail without warning.
I have seen a variety of "IHate[SoAndSo].com" websites advertised on highway billboards. I can't say I've ever followed through to investigate the source of anger but I'm impressed with the commitment.
One thing I don't understand about NFT for art and game item is that, the renderer/displayer of that particular art or game item is still a company right? So that means when that company goes bust, then the NFT will be useless?

Say I buy an UberOmegaSwordUltimate from GigaRPGCompany, and GigaRPGCompany goes bust, then that token will be useless?

Contrary to a real painting. Maybe an exotic guitar maker only make a particular guitars for 100 items in the world, and the guitar company goes bust, but those guitars are still existing.
Who is being sucked by Facebook?
How exactly google sucks people dry?

How exactly society suffers because Amazon can afford low prices (because of scale)?
Counterargument: all those grandiose empty buildings. People still come to see our Place of the Parliament in Bucharest and ain't nobody bringing back Ceaușescu :-))
It might? It might also not have money in the bank? Is that relevant?

Bad UX is subjective. Money doesn't change that.
Do you think all the evidence is available to us?
The biggest difference comes from actually owning the block of IP addresses that you use instead of renting them.
Amazing. It even works great on my phone.
This is one of the best things I've seen on hacker news.
If you like the text editor that powers VS Code (Monaco) and would like to use it for writing Markdown on github, check out my foss chrome/Firefox browser extension [1]! It replaces all text areas with a Monaco editor.

[1] https://github.com/hediet/browser-ext-github-monaco
Only if Haskell stops being maintained, which I very much doubt would happen. Therefore no one is forced into the change.
Those can still be taxed.
I also remembered accidental Snapchat's NTP pool abuse.

https://community.ntppool.org/t/recent-ntp-pool-traffic-incr...
How do you mandate good customer support?
I wonder how many people silently agreed on this question implications and started answering it.

But the implications are 100% subjective at best, and totally messed up from what i know about the world.

Implication 1: people cant be greedy and making the world better at the same time.

2: Some abstract “moderate” way of doing business is good for society

3: “big” and aggressively growing companies always make people suffer

4: founders intentionally trying to make a monopoly, to bend rules

5: if you’re monopoly its only because you’re greedy and dont care about people
> I tried for YEARS to appeal it. There are simply no humans working at Google and nobody reads your emails.

:(

I realize it's complicated, but there are things that make me worry the future of the internet might not be so great.
Reminds me of "Old man yells at cloud" [0].

[0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-man-yells-at-cloud
Already tried it. NVRAM and all the other combinations. Dead.
What’s wrong with the staging area? It’s probably my number one most used feature. I tend to have a lot of changes in my working directory. Some are actual code, some are temporary fixes or comments. Maybe even another unrelated fix I threw in. Staging area allows me to pick the parts/files/lines I want for a particular commit.
The Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Germany, France, Ireland, South Korea, etc. There are plenty of counter examples.
If I can compare to react-native,flutter seems higher.
Electron which is used widely used is the least search term.

Interesting enough, react-native and electron distinguish themselves in the Est coast and always miss the Wyoming or the Dakota's while flutter is more evenly distributed.

Which would mean that the higher flutter level might just be google cannot distinguish between the common name and the framwork.Yet the flutter trend is growing so it's certainly the framework or climate change side effect :D .

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Yeah, but you'd think you could pull down the directory without pulling down the files? I mean, I love the project either way, and it's already impressive as-is.
Amazon and other FAANG companies have to be broken up by anti trust rules.

The existing anti trust rules are enough to push these monopolies to stop the anti competitive activities. Just like anti trust rules were used against Microsoft many years ago, which opened door to online competition like Amazon, Google, Apple etc.
Sadly ironic when you think about how a large part of Google's data collating effort comes from reading virtually everyone's email.
This is amazing for accessibility. Github's own interface is kinda meh with screen readers. This is much better.
I see proponents of Bitcoin always mention comparisons to the entirety of the finance industry, but I've yet to see numbers back that up? All we can see right now is that Bitcoin uses more power per transaction. Comparing it to the entirety of the finance industry is perhaps taking the physical presence of the industry in to account, but do people assume a crypto future would be completely digital? Would you have no need for finance buildings for in person consulting etc? Perhaps. But that's several leaps of faith. If Bitcoin somehow took over the entire financial industry, would it be more power efficient than it is today?

You then compare it to the power use of all internet services. This is another comparison that proponents of BTC often make. However the use of internet has tangible everyday benefits. What is the tangible benefit of BTC today that can outweigh it's power consumption?
Amazon's automation and lack of accountability towards sellers is mind-deranging. I have a popular product on Amazon US that had a QC issue in 2017. Despite having it been resolved later that year, I am still banned from selling my product in multiple marketplaces (AU, EU, etc). (Which makes little sense, since at the time of the QC issue, I was only in the US anyways). I've had other marketplaces (JP, IN, etc) accept the product, and whenever I can get support people in those locales to answer my emails, they promptly enable my account, citing it having been blocked due to a technical issue.

But other important Amazon marketplaces just won't respond, or don't follow up. I Had the UK tell me if I got a VAT they would enable my account; I did the months of work required to get VAT registered and then responded to UK support that I was ready to go, and have had all of my emails (~1 a month) ignored for over a year now. Why tell me to get VAT and then just pretend I don't exist? They just don't care. Even worse Amazon will INVITE me to join certain marketplaces, which I have to pay to join, to only later then find that I'm randomly blocked in that marketplace as well. Oh yeah, no refunds either.

I've escalated to jeff@amazon and had multiple people there tell me they're in the middle of unblocking the account everywhere, and weeks go by and nothing happens, and then they too just stop responding my emails. At this point jeff@amazon doesn't respond anymore either, even though I made certain to not repeat my request more frequently than once a month. It is like hair-rippingly frustrating and it is the biggest stress point for my business currently. The worst part is this is my main source of income so I'm just relying on their support people who are wholly unaccountable.

I wish I had options as to otherwise but Amazon is such a behemoth now that most of the customers who were purchasing through my own ecommerce store a few years ago now demand to purchase on Amazon or not buy at all. I'm losing a ton of money because of this and have absolutely no way to get help. I cannot even use words to convey how frustrating it has been..
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Electric Cars and Radiators Push Norway Power Use to Record High
It wraps an existing browser app in a, wait for it, browser. What in this repo is tier1? The wrapping of existing code?

The app is an unremarkable text editor.

The bar needs to go up, not down people.
There's a new one called OMaps, currently in an early stages of development.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...
United Arab Emirates Hope Mars probe enters orbit and makes history
> offering them wealth, opportunities for their children, or a popular reputation

The government literally pays them and promotes them as a symbol of the nation - how is that not offering them "wealth, opportunities for their children, or a popular reputation"?
You’ve braver than me, I had the same thoughts but didn’t dare post in here.

Not entirely surprised by the negative responses and I can see there are gotchas here, which is always thorny. But everyone seems to be picking simple uninteresting use cases so they can knock then down.

This feature would seem to be for cases where you need to do more complex matching.

In terms of the variable assignment, surely the whole point of this feature is to give you nice assignment based on matching, rather than using it as an if or switch statements?
The most active fork is probably OMaps.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...
Remotion: create motion graphics in React
I don't think it's all that bad.

Forgettability certainly isn't something we have in day to day interactions with those around us, our friends, coworkers, nor our neighbors. We tend to pay dearly in our local social circles for the sort of behavior that we tempt ourselves with online. People just stop spending time with us when we can't get along. You have skin in the game.

If there's something different about the internet, it's that it compels so many of us to say regretful things that we want to delete.

> It's incredible how our online activities became permanent, no matter how much we try to erase the parts we don't like

I'm having the opposite realization lately. This tech trope of permanence isn't actually happening.

For instance, I used to be able to search some of my unique internet/gaming aliases 15 years ago and get thousands of results as I was a big forum poster back then and those hits showed up. Now I get three hits across the whole internet. Things die and nobody saves it. Why would they?

Then you look at Archive.org, the main presence I can think of that's aiming for long term records, and they have breadth, like website homepages going back weekly for a decade, but they rarely have evidence of that controversial deleted tweet from a week ago. Quickly, all people have are screenshots and then it fizzles out.

Finally, to my eyes, the only issue with permanence of things we've said in the past, if it exists, isn't with the permanence itself but because modern culture gives very few of us a way back from something unsavory (by someone's standard) that we once uttered.
Ur digging in your heels pretty hard, but most dutch are disagreeing with you (myself included).

It's just not a very fitting analogy.
The phrase "America owns space" does not occur in the article.

The footnote says "Correction: A previous version of this story misquoted Gen. John Raymond. The story has been updated to reflect the correct quote."

The current headline is "Space Force general says success of private companies like SpaceX helps U.S. secure the space domain."

The relevant quote appears to be:

> “The U.S. has always, has long understood that we are stronger with a secure and stable space domain and all of those sectors play into that,” Raymond said.
Sure, you can call not supporting one of the most
basic UI features a "design decision", but it's a terrible
decision and it won't protect you against valid complaints from
users, just like apps like Skype got complaints for mishandling
the window's close button.

Intentionally broken is still broken.
Flaw in GNU screen that's reachable via irssi leads to DOS
In this example, it's black and white obviously over engineered. The reality is, in an application of moderate complexity, whether or not it is indeed over-engineered is a far more subjective calculation.

E.g., >90% of engineers would agree enterprise-fizz-buzz is over-engineered.

But perhaps ~50% of engineers agree my SaaS app is over-engineered.
I don’t think PoW is going away any time soon. It’s the only real way to store value electronically. It’s value from hard limits of physics. BTC will never switch to PoS model, and I suspect ETH1 will live on after ETH2 is actually a real thing.

PoS is value from a social consensus, based on... early adoption?
Nah, I’ll store value from burning energy, as clean as you can please
Fascinating. Any details available on this?
'It doesn't work in one particular language that happens to lack pattern matching, therefore it cannot work without pattern matching.'

In particular, pattern matching generally entails destructuring, which you do not need in order to make that particular example work.
I added them as neutral (the '?' character) rather than an allowed domain: I don't want to have to understand Google's mailing policy when assessing the risk of my site being downgraded.
If the weather allowed it, it would be a real shame to ban it due to Corona. Maybe it's possible to restrict the number of participants and spread them out more. And maybe also restrict or spread out the spectators. Of course it takes place over such a large area that it's impossible to police everything, but they can probably address the hotspots.

But at the same time, it's such an iconic event, it may be hard to stop people if it does take place. Is it worth risking a Corona super-spreader event for possibly the last Elfstedentocht ever?
Drew is an Alpine maintainer. Alpine, which you might know as probably the most-used server-side Linux distribution in the world right now, bootstraps everything in its repositories, just like every major Linux distribution on the planet.
Adsense is Google and Google is an American company, you have to be very careful about the words in use. Usually it means a massive blocklist of words, when finding them don't display the ads on that page.

Even bigger newspapers sometimes don't have ads on the more morbid type of news pages.
Yeah, I think things escalated around ~2010. It's definitely not an everyday thing, but I think every year or two someone manages to scream the N word on Washington Journal. Around 2012 they added a short delay to calls and every once in a while they make the delay even longer. There was also a period around the 2012 election when people kept calling in and asking about the size of Mitt Romney's penis.
Get Your Influence over the World
Amazon practically is Alibaba at this point, or Aliexpress really.

Half the results on any given product I search point straight back to Alibaba if I image search.

Sometimes I check if Aliexpress has it too, and if I'm not in a hurry I get it there for a huge savings.
You need to be invited to try
Sure, that works fine when one party has 50%. But what happens when no-one does?
> People will have to change their behavior to survive collectively.

How exactly? Voluntarily? Or by force?
Comparing garbage syntax to worse syntax and saying “it’s not as bad as that” isn’t the way one improves upon a language.
It was reverted, but a fork started nevertheless, OMaps, currently in an early stages of development.

https://github.com/omapsapp

Matrix chat:
https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...
Language learning system that pays attention – more efficiently than ever before
Animals don’t “contribute”. That implies some act of conscious sacrifice on the part of the animal.

Those two paradigms can be boiled down to “Animals are pretty objects that I can kill and eat if I so desire.” It’s the polar opposite of reverence.
So if after an election there are two different coalitions with different Prime-ministerial candidates who both claim to be the best chance at a stable government, who makes the choice to go with one of them, or to call fresh elections?
Is this due to his city/locality refusing to permit aboveground Internet distribution points, in order to protect the appearance of certain film industry neighborhoods? If so, AT&T might be trying to avoid an extremely costly “underground on every block in the postal code” buildout.
Sounds like Vasaloppet, but rarer. It does have an organizer though, but still huge amounts of volunteers along and it's definitely an achievement just to complete it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasaloppet
At what stage do you find "wasting fuel" on power an issue? Early game one x red-belt of coal will supply fuel for electricity generation. One you go to solar + accumulators you very quickly don't need steam power anymore unless you're going robot heavy, in which case you'll just stamp a small nuclear plant.
Graphhopper is an excellent open source routing engine.

I'm not sure if you are really saying that Open Source is unfit for GIS. Because there is a lot of proof it is a perfectly suited model for GIS.
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Not sure I understand the analogy. What is PowerPoint a dumbed-down version of?
Baudet really is a cancer, he's now spread to HN. Ugh.
Ha, this brings back memories indeed. I was working on the Skype J2ME app at the time and Opera was one of the few complex apps to look up to for a source of motivation and inspiration.
The majority of the world is on linux. A small remaining fraction is on windows, where there is no less cruft.

Yes, there are embedded OSes (l4); ibm i&z; etc. (L4 and ibm i are actually super cool.) But those are tiny drops in the bucket and aren't replacing linux any time soon.
But that's a problem if you have to wait for years for your work to become popular.
Europe's oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday
Seems like a cool extension, will give it a try.

Reminds me of the GhostText[1] extension I used to use for Sublime to sync an input field with my editor.

[1]https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText
Top Countries for Outsourcing: Which Country Has the Best Engineers?
Well, I'd wager Robert Murdock still has more influence over the law than the Queen does so I'm kinda fine with her having some power.
Static from the server perspective. It only serves files in a directory without any parsing or processing.
If GigaCorp. goes Busto then the NFT object still exists on-chain, which means the "game effects" are set in stone and the chain-of-custody remains intact.

This allows a "community bailout", whereby the players and any volunteer Devs can continue utilizing the existing smart-contracts to perform game functions.

Further, this allows the rescue-squad to launch a new modified version of the game in a hard-fork - if the Devs abandoned the original game, then the players would largely be in favour of such a hard-fork. This should address your question of the "Renderer", because all the game-piece's metadata and visual data are stored permanently on-chain. As such, it cannot be lost.

An art-piece NFT can be displayed regardless of whether the original minter of the token exists; once it hits the chain, its forever. I should note that _ALL_ of this depends on whether the contracts are truly decentralized. Many games, especially in early dev, have Admin backdoors of some sort; this is not intrinsically "bad", however it is a risk. Some NFT games right now have the capability to lock the entire contract, rendering 100% of the assets functionally un-usable. In this case, we loop back to see-above; community rescue and hard-fork in the case that the original devs just bounce.

in contrast, if Giga Corp had an internal database of assets, the entire chain-of-custody (who owns what, how they got it, what the thing does in-game) is lost forever, the users have _NO_ recourse in this case.

In your guitar example, I would say that another expert guitar-maker could repair and maintain such a guitar. Or, if desired, could attempt a replica. Is it the "original"? No, however it too has intrinsic value as a high quality replica. Further, imagine that this replica improves on some weaknesses in the original 100. These replicas become an homage to the original creators and serve as useful, potentially superior, musical tools.
I've been using Codespaces recently, and most recently with PyTorch.

Accessing https://github1s.com/pytorch/pytorch is _much_ faster than accessing PyTorch through Codespaces (because former is a read-only IDE), so this site is useful beyond Codespaces.
I don’t think you should be using that TV show as a guide, parts of it are fictional. For examples, take a look at the wikipedia section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series)#Historic...
It seems pretty complicated to strike a balance this way, in comparison to simple time-based methods. And there's basically no reason not to keep paying the fees up to 80 or 90 years under your scheme.

If you want more renewals to avoid orphan works, I'd just add more renewals. They don't need to cost much.
It's something I was willing go sacrifice to avoid doing something else that paid worse.