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You're quite negative

If you compare it to all the current social medias, reddit seems to be fairest of them all. the admins are working quite hard to make sure things are balanced with moderators etc, but it's always a delicate balance.

It's obviously the target of astroturfers, but honestly it's a sign that reddit is actually quite a more organic network compared to others, if it's such a target.

Meanwhile, everybody knows facebook/instagram are less organic and too much oriented towards ads; reddit has much more authenticity, or at least that's how users feel.

I totally agree with your criticism, but it's not really the fault or the website, it's just impossible to prevent astroturfing, it's more of a law problem.
I think it's a few things: pit bulls are a very large and strong breed, aggressive people prefer large, powerful dogs, aggressive people don't train/socialize their dogs to be nice to other people.
Yeah. 100% with you on this. The world can be divided in 2 groups. The ones that are aware of this and a large part which actually isn't. However, even as someone who has, like you, been part of a few stories, and thereby rather early realized they are never correct, even then it's easy to forget this and read the daily news too naively. Especially in uncontroversial subjects.
True, but, without weapons, I'll still bet on the gorilla.
This project could definitely be considered repurposing - there's pretty much nothing happening in this article that hasn't already been covered in much greater detail on the Kindle Developers Corner over at MobileRead: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150.
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Posting the very link they're trying to reduce traffic on doesn't seem like a very helpful thing to do
Unfortunately nuclear power plants are notoriously bad at providing a) water supply and b) flood control. Especially the latter.

The Guardian kind of forgot to mention these as factors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%C4%B1su_Dam
>>> They need to just pick a side and run with it.
So you don't care about objective journalism?
I'm an European and i strongly feel like this cultural issue is coming from the anglosphere.

I'm totally in for discussing this, if you dont like it about nationality, then make it about culture/language?
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Legitimate ownership of property can be gained in the following ways:

• Purchase/trade with a legitimate owner
• Receiving as gift from a legitimate owner
• Creation of discovery where there is no legitimate owner

Otherwise, we call gaining property “theft”. For example by using threats of violence to coerce others to give you what they legitimately own.

The sin of democratic governments is that they are all about gaining property in non-voluntary ways. When I vote for a candidate who promises my interest group money taken from others, I am just stealing with a proxy. That is why representative democracy is not ethical or good. Note that this does not make kings or emperors ethical either.

The right way to resolve disputes and protect property without a state would be with agreements between clients, insurance companies, and dispute resolution companies, just like how businesses in their contracts write that in case of dispute, company X will decide who is in the right.

Those who think they can plan other people’s lives, and who today aspire to work in government and centrally plan on behalf of others against their will, should instead open advice columns in newspapers. If they are so good at planning for others, they’ll be widely successful, but I have my doubts.

Case in point: Norway has 10x the amount of oil as America, and infinitely more than Switzerland, a country devoid of natural resources. Norway has a huge coastline and many ports - Switzerland is land locked. Yet you’re 4x as likely to be a millionaire, the average person makes more in CH before and after taxes. This is clearly due to Norwegians choosing high regulation, high tax, and limited personal freedom. With their head start of massive oil resources, the average Norwegian should live better than the average swiss. But incentives for central planners are inherently inefficient.
Fortunately a lot of these frameworks provide tools that set up your project for you. I totally agree that having to configure your own webpack from scratch is hell, and not what I signed up for, but there are tools that can help us make use of the tools we need to do our jobs.

And on the backend, not everything is trivial either. Do you enjoy configuring Spring? What cloud stack do you deploy to? Or do you need a UI framework? And all the complaints I hear about npm these days, I also heard about maven 15 years ago.

The only way to avoid it is to write everything yourself, and not make use of frameworks that do most of the heavy lifting for you. Write simpler applications, I guess, or at least in a simpler environment. With complexity come the tools to manage that complexity.
But why remove the „it“? That changes the quote in a way that’s not marked, since the brackets denote an addition but not a removal. Keeping it would make it clearer what actually happened to the quote, That you merely expand what the „it“ references to, and thus is more trustworthy.
Leaving a bear trap goes way beyond negligence, it's literally setting a trap. Similar with unmarked dangerous chemicals, they're required to be marked for good reason.
Not Google, Internet.
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> I mined bitcoins myself a few years back at home as well.

Key words being "few years back". I mined at home few years ago too - nowadays it's absolutely impossible.

You can find data easily yourself, simply check what wholesale electricity costs on the exchange right now, and check what you can earn with the most advanced mining hardware - you'll see that the earnings are three times lower than the cheapest electricity.

> I have NO IDEA why you would think that bitcoin mining is done by magical high intelligent controling systems

Because that's what you have to do if you want to have any profit from mining in 2021. It was different in 2017, I agree.

> this sentence is really weird. Are you talking about real people having a real benefit of bitcoin

Real benefit. Bitcoin makes it easy to transfer and store money where it was previously impossible.

> when crops are used for biofuel, suddenly its financial better to produce energy instead of food

Totally false, that never was and never will be profitable. It's only done because of EU subsidies (and these subsidies destroyed my country's landscape and food self-sufficiency).
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Some static generators like eleventy and Gatsby offer partial builds, only building the new posts etc. which should be considerably faster. Another thing would be to run an empty version of your site with only the text you're working on and when it's done, moving it to the proper site and building it then
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A lot of places are skipping that because they dont have self hosted servers but is allready hosting everything in "the cloud". Like for a simplified example, if you are using google docs + gmail it does not really make sense to force the employees throught a VPN first.

The companies that do it well implement something like google's beyondcorp, the bad just uses direct authentication.
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Although recently I discovered that there is a certain Facebook business page where you can manage your Instagram account including DMs. But I never checked it out so I'm not sure if it's what I made.
Is it likely that my project covers a very narrow audience?
about:robots also works in Firefox, I know it's been there for a long time but I have no idea if it was ever in Netscape.
The source code for Watch Dogs: Legion leaked just a few months back.
I think you are politicizing things with those kinds of comments. I'm not even a conservative and I dislike the New York Times.

It's unfortunate that the days of 'hard news' seems to be over across all sides of the media.
Same here. But with Smarty templates.
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> A notary in my juristication (Germany) is a quasi-employee of the government,

In a sense; precisely. At the moment, to fill that function, you need a quasi-government employee to have a trustworthy bondholder.

With a smart contract, literally I could be the notary and while that would be super weird, I can't actually do anything not specified in the contract.

Something is possible that wasn't possible before. That is why people can get excited about the idea.
Dangerous questions!

This is the world Americans now live in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.#Dismissal_fr...
I'll be happy to read the citations from the source.
Here's my two cents. I wouldn't care about jumping through few services. In certain cases you will also have single sign-on enabled so multiple tools is not a problem. Let's say I have n platforms I am using. Now I use kloudi, now I have to managed n+1 platform. I don't see an inherent value of this platform that would pull me towards using this platform long term. I will always be afraid that you will always have one-off integration issues.
At least not unusual for many companies but there are proponents of a different philosophy [1].

The idea is that drawing a clear line between outside and inside became futile and you are much better off with an approach that recognizes that fact. Their somewhat provocative slogan is: "The perimeter is dead".

For those working at FAANG: Do you have a corporate VPN? Do you use it? Do you need it for your daily work?

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_dec...
This one of main challenges in information security (and probably in IT in general) - code is completely invisible for a lay person and even for a professional it takes a lot of time to tell the difference between good and bad code.

A hardware device, say a water pump made by industry leader would look very different from one made by a hobbyist in garage. It's obvious even to a lay person that a door from thick still is more break resistant than one from hardboard. But code written by a summer intern without any review and tests looks not much different from one written by seasoned professionals and carefully tested. Even if some software if full of RCE it takes a lot of time and motivation to find them.

Huge amount of dependencies and many layers of abstractions make it even harder to see the software system as a whole.
The goal is explicitly to make the web experience especially on mobile so bad that people are driven to install the app. Apparently an installed app drives engagement and can be monetized better (circumventing adblockers etc).
better than lfs ?
Mmm. That kinda sucks. I started watching some F1 stuff last year, but the attitude on that sub has put me off a bit.
I use this addon, it's great:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

Supports:

Twitter → Nitter

YouTube → Invidious

Instagram → Bibliogram

Google Maps → OpenStreetMap

Reddit → Libreddit

Google → e.g. DuckDuckGo
The dissonance between the article about us, and what I clearly see all around me, made me realise that the reporting is not aligned with the truth I know. My point is that if this is the case for topics I know, it’s likely also true for reporting about things foreign to me. Thus I take media with a rock of salt.

Have you had the experience of reading in the newspaper about topics which you personally know?
Thank you Conor! We are definitely excited as well :) did you sign up for updates? Also, I'd love to grant you access to our invite-only slack community for hardware builders. Ping me adar@jiga3d.com .
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The web roughly took from 1995 to 2005 to take off. DLT and DeFi manage value, not just data or customer interactions, the cost of every error can be devastating. Yet, DeFi already has a couple of billions under management which isn't too bad.

I do agree that the fixation on decentralization over everything isn't going to cut it, DLT will be backend tech used to secure hybrid applications. I don't see anyone paying in bitcoin or having an ETH wallet for daily purposes.
In Switzerland that's the default for deposits: you create a bank account in your name, but you're not allowed to touch this money until you've left the accommodation and the landlord has agreed that you left it in good shape. I've heard that it's also rather hard for the landlord to claim this money, they need a strong case.
You'll probably be quite disappointed, because it's most likely the same mess as any other multi-million-line codebase ;)

IMHO frame rendering analyses like this:

http://www.adriancourreges.com/projects/

...or working through GDC presentations, blog posts and whitepapers from those companies is more helpful to understand their technology.

(edit: better link)
Genuinely curious. For those who hate the NYT. Where do you get your news from?
Really impossible to compare. There are very good subreddits, even better than HN, and then there's stuff like r/The_Donald. HN is just a single community, reddit has tons.

It also just depends on your subject of interest and what tone of voice, humor, etc your are appreciative of.
I think it should be blocked. I don't exactly read specific publications so much as articles that get attention on Twitter, hackernews, or are relevant to my personal or professional interests. I think I read from a wide variety of reputable and official sources as well as more general sources. e.g. my browser history for today shows I read the Free Beacon, an article on CNBC, a couple substack posts by mainstream news figures. What is the nasty surprise?
This would be like learning piano without a teacher listening to our mistakes.
One of my friends used the same strategy to block DDOS from China : just put "Falun Gong" on there and it was resolved instantly.
That's what was good about the early stages of sites like Coursera, Udacity and Edx - they had quizzes, exercises and exams that are auto-graded that provided that kind of valuable feedback for all tiers.

I think they've all evolved now to where that is only available for paid tiers.

One innovation I really enjoyed was marking and commenting another student's answers, once you'd submitted your own. There are flaws but it's a valuable variation on graded feedback.
For some reason, 20% of the galaxies I zoom into wind up being just this purple flower: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/As...
Ransomware crews are bottom of barrel scum of the internet regardless of who the victim is
My point was that you have to trust them in any case, even with a VPN. The number of certificates is irrelevant.
It may be that number of crimes is not increasing, but it’s a different kind than in previous decades. Shootouts in public, violent and humiliation-robberies, and gang rapes.
This incident, as well as the earlier Frito Lay sweepstakes that was also hacked by Caltech students, was famously referenced in the movie Real Genius: https://filmschoolrejects.com/5-brilliant-things-you-should-...
I'm not a policy design expert by any means, and it's not like I've given this thorough thought. I expect some amount of red tape and controls from a government agency would be the proper way to enforce it.

It would of course require significant political will to create these institutions and system of laws and regulations, but it could be similar in spirit to the kinds of controls the military has for software vendors that want to work with it.
They behaved exactly as red pill proponents say. According to that line of thinking, a man popular with ladies is more attractive and they are more happy sharing a high status man than having a lesser man all for themselves.

Of course, this is just an anecdote and cases like this are more likely to stick in our memory. You be the judge.
Those things were, blindingly obviously, never intended to produce electrical power. The Banqiao dam was, and failed under similar environmental stresses to Fukushima, killing - by any even vaguely sane analysis - an order of magnitude more people.

If you count disaster deaths for some methods of producing a resource (power) and ignore them for others, I'm calling you a bad-faith actor.
Reading the replies there tells me I did the right thing when I decided against a career in game development over a decade ago.

It looks like a constant war between developers and gamers now. Developers are investing a lot of time into making their games literally addictive in the worst way possible, and not even remotely by making it fun - it's all about overpriced DLC, gambling and weird reward systems. Which has ruined mobile gaming and is now making its way into console and PC gaming. As an intern I attended a company-wide meeting where the CEO proclaimed that game quality didn't matter and making money is the sole focus. On the other side of the war, a very vocal subset of the gamers is treating gaming as the only purpose their lives have, and will viciously attack developers personally with death threats and doxxing, or review-bomb even unrelated games into oblivion if the game publisher did something wrong. Which will hardly affect the giants at all (what will you do, not buy the next game from a popular series?), but can crush indie developers. Not to mention the whole work culture that expects any game developer to work 80h per week for less pay because you "love gaming".

CDPR devs must be close to a nervous breakdown by now. Crunching for months/years despite their bosses promising it won't happen, seeing their game released too early and then ripped apart by critics and fans, and finally getting their personal data leaked.
If at least one cellular automata configuration is Turing complete and a Turing machine can simulate a quantum computer, then cellular automata can simulate a quantum computer.

I like his diagrams, they look cute.
Like so?

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
Yes (I was on my phone, that’s why I kept my secrets, sorry :) ).

Basically that’s how you do it in a libvirt environment: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM.... In qemu terms this translates, I _think_, to having "hv-vendor-id=Nvidia43Fixx,kvm=off" in your "-cpu" line.

So don’t know how to do that with esxi but all in all you need to change your cpu hardware vendor id to some random string (that may or may not need to be 12 chars long) and not explicitely expose the fact that you’re a VM.
I’m talking about their editorial content. There’s nothing about “objective journalism“ that obligates them to run an opinion piece defending China‘s actions in Hong Kong, for example.
Perfect, unemployment is a major problem because of Covid19 anyway.
I don't, but unlike Google, Fastmail customer service is top-notch! Just talk to them :)
They aren't. The only people thinking that are radicalized/extremist people or people coming from an academic thesis/reflection (perfectly valid). But the latter is not something you get on this site and I'm sure is not related to the link.
I would be very curious to learn more about this - do you have any sources for it or links to conversations around it?

(It's not commonly recognized and impossible to talk about without any pointers as to where the problem should lie)
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relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26031668
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Dagens Nyheter absolutely aims to be the NYT of Sweden.
On a similar note [1], there is a few times more trees on Earth (ca. 3 trillion) than there are stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/02/earth-three-tr...
Hi Alex, great to see you here.

I found the eBook very useful and am inspired how you built product, community and now found one viable monetization strategy. It's a lot of work to keep all this going and stay motivated.

Lot's of success,
Chris
There is one caveat there: when everyone comes from the same IP (the VPN server's IP) it makes it difficult to determine (from regular HTTP server logs) who accessed what (e.g., when you think that there may be an attacker on your network).
Non-paying users are not customers, thus google doesn't really earn them support for their products. For paying users, that's a different story.
Reddit is exactly one drama away from zero valuation.

Hero to zero like digg. Just way too much diverse communities under one roof that don’t really fit with their corporate need to be PC
Welcome to the club, my friend. I am pretty happy with my backend/DevOps position. I hope you'll find a new job more suitable.
Quite easily, I imagine: Banqiao Dam needed to be built anyway in order to control downstream flooding and supply water. There was no option in which China just didn't build it and saved huge numbers of lives. There was also no option of building a nuclear power plant instead even for the electricity generation side; commercial-scale nuclear power didn't exist at the time it was built, so you're inherently comparing over very different timescales. (Given the construction, engineering and operation standards of the dam in question, that's probably a good thing. Especially since if China did manage to set up a nuclear power plant close to that era it'd almost certainly have been an early RBMK design like Chernobyl.)
Hi, Thanks for the useful feedback!
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One recent action of the Times I think is "Hate inspiring" is how they handle Senator Tom Cotton's op ed where he argued for sending in military or national guard to help with law and order during the BLM protests/riots.

Cotton's essay didn't call for murdering the protesters or anything illegal, and I believe a significant percentage of the public supported the move, but the Times claimed it was so offensive that it shouldn't have been published and fired the head of the editorial section for allowing it.

To me, it seems outrageous that a senator making arguments with some significant amount of public support are too offensive to be published in the NYT op ed section. It makes me feel like the whole paper has a very ideological bent such that they don't want to discuss things so much as tell their audience what to think. Incidents like this make me regard the NYT as a kind of mind-poison because they're showing you they want to manipulate and control what you think by preventing you from seeing different opinions.
I think you should answer yourself what you don't like about writing tests in FE. I personally like writing them (at least for my personal project), but I think tools are still evolving in FE testing. E.g. I have recently found out about Playwright and it is step forward compared to Puppeteer: automatic waits and codegen tool is what makes Playwright the joy to work with.

I'm still looking how to improve FE testing but it is something what absolutely makes my life easier.
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