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D'oh. TIL
I live in Canada, we have very strict laws about who can get and how to get guns. 80% of gun crime is committed by people that don’t have a license, and got them from unauthorized places. Making something illegal doesn’t make it go away, just creates a black market. Criminals also don’t give a hoot about laws, by definition.
I wonder what happens once you can get a new leg and refuse to do so. Will the protections still apply?

This is not a morally clear situation; some people may refuse a cloned leg in the future because the price tag will be too high, others for religious reasons etc.
I'm pretty sure we are not yet equipped to answer this question. In the end, QFT and QM are extraordinarily successful mathematical models that predict to extreme precision the behaviors of small numbers of particles interacting.

Whether they are directly describing reality or some kind of approximation remains an open question. I believe that some progress on the measurement problem, when it happens, could help point in this direction.
> Most vegans need more B12 than they get

Is it true? I don't know. What are the sources for the claim?

I looked up one paper linked to from this article, How prevalent is vitamin B12 deficiency among vegetarians?[0] That paper was made, it says, by searching the literature for other papers that mention B12 deficiency. It says in the abstract "The deficiency rates reported for specific populations were as follows: 62% among pregnant women...". I looked into that figure, as I read somewhere else that pregnant women were one of the groups with lowest B12, or at least greatest risk of deficiency.

When you lookup where that figure came from: "Only one of the studies included pregnant women. This study was conducted in Ethiopia and included participants whose diet was based on either maize or enset."

So I looked up that study, Zinc, Gravida, Infection, and Iron, but Not Vitamin B-12 or Folate Status, Predict Hemoglobin during Pregnancy in Southern Ethiopia[1] The abstract begins:

"The etiology of anemia during pregnancy in rural Southern Ethiopia is uncertain. Intakes of animal-source foods are low and infections and bacterial overgrowth probably coexist. We therefore measured the dietary intakes of a convenience sample of Sidama women in late pregnancy who consumed either maize (n = 68) or fermented enset (Enset ventricosum) (n = 31) as their major energy source. Blood samples were analyzed for a complete blood count, vitamin B-12 and folate status, plasma ferritin, retinol, zinc, albumin, and C-reactive protein (CRP). The role of infection and gravida was also examined. Dietary intakes were calculated from 1-d weighed records. No cellular animal products were consumed. Of the women, 29% had anemia, 13% had iron deficiency anemia, 33% had depleted iron stores, and 74 and 27% had low plasma zinc and retinol, respectively."

I can't actually find the 62% figure in that paper.. well, it says

"Unlike ferritin, neither plasma vitamin B-12 nor MMA was a significant predictor of hemoglobin, despite the high prevalence of elevated concentrations of MMA (i.e. 62%). This discrepancy is attributed to nonfunctional vitamin B-12 analogs present in the plasma of women consuming fermented enset, as discussed earlier, as well as the absence of any hematopoietic defects associated with vitamin B-12-deficiency anemia."

– so I guess it comes from there. But the findings of that paper seem quite a way from finding that pregnant women in general have 62% B12 deficiency, to say the least! Yet these things trickle up to popular articles that announce such findings as Facts. And people feel called to give ominous warnings about disregarding them...

[0] https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-pdf/71/2/1...

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/138/3/581/4670259
Probably because conservative groups like the NRA have (against their own propaganda) been largely silent when African American gun owners are killed by police.

The reaction of conservatives to the BLM movement has confirmed for many that conservatives don’t fear government overreach but that they fear any disruption to the social (ie including racial) status quo. I think many would object to that characterization, but it’s hard to argue that there has been pretty strong resistance from conservatives to stick their neck out to oppose police brutality. (There are exceptions to this, by Romney and some more libertarian types, but they’re much too rare).

So the question is, is an ideology like conservativism what it claims to outsiders or to what its adherents actually do and say to one another? Professed vs revealed preferences.
Baking a Pie with wind power on Pi Day
Like with salt, there is definitely such a thing as too little of it though.
> "These schools are the privilege of the privilege of the privilege. They say nonstop that they are all about inclusion. But they are by definition exclusive."

This resonates with me as I've worked at companies where the ranks are filled with young people talking about diversity, who were raised in economically privileged environments. And they seem oblivious to how there are almost no people there from lower class backgrounds (or older people). I have a hard time bringing up my poor background in these contexts because the focus is on my skin color and gender.
There is no rational justification for private gun ownership. Owning a gun isn't the same thing as having it available and ready to stop a crime, which is why that happens so rarely. If the police can't provide adequate protection from violence then we need to change the system until they can. Anything else is horribly unfair to people who pay taxes but can't reliably use guns to protect themselves (ie the elderly or disabled)

There are very few activities which require a firearm to be owned as opposed to rented. Hunters can hunt and marksman can shoot, as long as the weapons are returned as part of a standard rental.

Guns won't stop the (American) government from asserting its will. Many people have tried that, believe me it doesn't work out. Merely owning a gun won't stop a determined adversary or provide you with a modicum of additional safety unless you've been trained in how to quickly acquire and shoot it. An assault rifle is of almost 0 value in a non-war urban setting, unless you plan to be firing at many targets at a range of 200m+

Statistically, the overwhelming majority of guns end up harming their owner or their owner's family. Actual self-defense is near the bottom of real uses for fired personal weapons.

Don't buy a gun. Buy a dog. You'll be safer
Because you may be bugged by the service forever.

I signed up with the Christian Science Monitor, a news outlet. Decided I didn't care for it, and "closed" my account.

Continued to get email offers. Not even "come back at this low, low price." Emails that assumed I still subscribed.

Went through the "unsubscribe from all emails" dance.

I still get email from CSM.

It doesn't matter their motives or competency, you take a certain risk when you give up your true identity to the internet.
I wasn't for this in the past but after watching the racism, bias, and impotence of American policing these past years, I'd probably buy one too if I had to live there.
I was thinking “lower latency”.
Is there a suffix that means “less of”? “Timeless” is already taken...
To be honest, if there truly is 50% of the population that thinks rushing the capital to stop a new elected government from existing, it's not the end of the world to think some undesirable minorities might not be wanted.

2 blocks down, there's still a TRUMP 2020 flag with a nazi flag right under it so I'm keeping my AR-15 nearby.
Just wanted to let you know that cosplaying a freedom fighter on the internet is quite different from doing it in real life.
Different types of networking still appear "randomly chaotic" to lay people. To people who know how they work, they're no more complex than cryptocurrencies are to people who know how they work.

The fact that something requires specialist understanding at its most basic levels does not in any way prevent building upon it and simplifying it until it reaches such a level of abstraction that any layperson can use it even though they don't understand it.
The Reagan assassination attempt wasn’t for any political reason, but because a crazy person wanted to impress Jodie Foster.
And it's quite possible that this was a reason why it stopped.
And China has also drones and an organized military. A military face to face with a nation state is always a losing bet. Which is why there are guerilla tactics but you can't expect a whole population to adopt guerilla warfare, there's not enough room in the jungle. What works is to make the economic cost of repression very costly with massive strikes and massive refusal to pay taxes, an organized military is very costly and when soldiers don't get paid they may disobey too. You also have to make the moral cost of being on the good side of the gun costly too then parts of the military may go into disobedience/mutiny. But this is generally taken into account by states and they will avoid sending batallions from a region in that region.

On a different note, how do you justify having 50 guns for personal protection?
Brazil is bad example, they have much more serious social problems.

Compare with any European country and you will see that gun control works.

Of course, there will always be criminals who will acquire illegal guns, but overall it’s much harder to get a gun.

If your standard is 100% efficiency, you could make everything legal including murder, because making murder illegal doesn’t avoid it by 100%.
Political positions are almost always tribalist in nature and not based on rational analysis.

Case in point: the people arguing that drug prohibition is ineffective are often the same ones arguing for gun prohibition. If prohibition doesn't work for drugs, why will it work for guns?

It isn't a left or right thing, just a people thing. The same phenomenon exists in the opposite direction; guns good but drugs bad.
There are no such examples among the rich nations of the world. As such the example of Brazil is not apt. Even if you persist in it being apt you must all compare the number of such examples to the number of examples where gun ownership is illegal and where criminals rarely have guns.
Even if the USA banned gun ownership, which would require a constitutional amendment and given views on the issue by majorities of the populations of some states, would thus be quite impossible, even then there would be the practical issue of enforcing that ban.

Immediately after the ban, there would still be gazillions of guns floating around the US. It would take multiple decades after the ban until the positive effects can be felt. During this time, the criminals would absolutely still have guns while the law abiding citizens would not.

Furthermore, there are huge smuggling activities at the US's southern border, making it possible for guns to enter on that route. Maybe if a strong border wall is built, it can be pulled off somehow.

Also don't forget that there are wild animals in many parts of the US, like say in Alaska. Sometimes you need to have a gun.
> a couple taunt a man who snaps, gets his guns and shoots them both.

I missed this one, what happened?
The solution to homelessness is free mental health services, better safety nets (easy to get, unconditional unemployment benefits) and a public health system that doesn't bankrupt people.

In the bay area "there are no homes" is a real problem, but the systematic reasons for homelessness are even more important to solve.
Tangential, but I highly recommend the YouTube channel Active Self Protection for all kinds of valuable information about self defense.

(First lesson: real-world gun violence is never anything like in movies)
This looks spectacular! Finally! This is functionality I've desperately wanted on Linux desktop. Link that up with with some of the SELinux on-demand tools and you have a plausible way to run untrusted binaries without the overhead of completely containerizing them up front.
I think the article and this Brookings article (which has some graphs) [0] are talking about the same data. It's based on the number of background checks by NICS [1].

Out of the top ten highest weeks for background checks, nine were in 2020/2021, the other was in 2012 [2]. A month after Obama was reelected? Not sure what else was going on in December 2012.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/13/three-mil...

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_top_...
This makes a lot of sense intuitively, and I've kinda arrived at the same conclusions. What are your favorite sources to share with others about this?
I work at one of the labs mentioned and get paid for running not only the climate models but mesoscale models as well, which are also written in Fortran.

The premise of the article is that Fortran, 70 years later is still an appropriate tool to use for crunching numbers which it absolutely is but it neglects one major problem.

Like the COBOL issue that was all the rage 20 years ago, it is difficult to hire younger generation programmers that want to and are excited to develop in Fortran.
I've lived in the US and countries that barely have guns, the US is far from the most "polite" place I have lived.

Unfortunately far too many people get brave with a gun, particularly while driving, and others seemingly look for opportunities to use their gun to "win" arguments both are featured regularly on the evening news[0] (and they aren't always fatal, but always depressing).

The US is a country that already has a bunch of cultural issues, guns just add chaos to an already borderline healthy society.

[0] https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/03/08/female-patron-threate...
Arguably, everyone in that neighborhood will err on the side of politeness for the foreseeable futute.
How is it possible that he is returning used and perfectly working kettles? Is it common in the US that you can return something that is not broken and was used just because you dislike it?
The relevant statistic is not the one you mentioned. One expects the outcome you cited. What is the frequency of gun involvement in crime in Canada vs. the United States? That’s the relevant comparison.
It's as easy to smuggle guns into the US as it is to smuggle in drugs that aren't grown there. It's also pretty easy to manufacture them. I suspect the latter is just your perception from never having tried.
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She was of course pointing it at other people on purpose, because where the firearm is pointed is a purposeful decision by the wielder. This sort of casual and incredibly dangerous treatment of firearms is why I support rigorous training and licensing requirements for firearms ownership in the US, despite being an owner myself and hunting enthusiast. Too many irresponsible people have incredibly easy access to firearms in the country.
That is true and means current prices may not be much higher, but it makes homeownership much more risky. If interest rates ever go back up, the price would go down and you could wind up owning a house where your principal is much higher than it's current value. This is ok if you don't want to move. If you ever want to move though, even to a house with an equal price, you may end up owing the bank a lot of money.
It's part of the legacy of an educational operating system from 1987 that initially targeted 8086 systems with 640 KiB memory and two 360 KiB floppy drives. The teaching focus was deemphasized after the release of MINIX 3.1.0, so the system did gain features like VFS and paged virtual memory after that. There was an early version in the 3.1.x era that had experimental SMP support in the form of a BKL, but it has bit-rotten a long time ago. Alas, the microkernel never received the rewrite it needed to bring it into the 21st century.

That is not to say that MINIX ever was just a toy OS, it was self-hosted from the first publicly released version if I'm not mistaken. But it takes much, much more than that to be a daily use OS nowadays.
I remember Qlikview (reporting/data discovery software) had a per minute license for this.

There are a lot of inactive users in reporting apps. A lot of people just log in once a month to see a single report and this was a useful way to get more users onboard.

It looked scary at first because you didn't knew beforehand how many minutes you should buy.

Mising standard and by minute license worked great, though
Make murder legal then because the law to make it illegal doesn’t keep it from happen 100% of the cases.
The reason the school employed a bunch of bleeding heart liberals is so the future politicians and thought leaders amongst those kids can later pretend they had a progressive upbringing.

I would not be surprised if the school hires professional photographers and takes kids on school excursions to protests to take photo shoots. In the future all politicians will have photos of them at the Friday climate school strike and the BLM protests.

The whole situation is analogous to the chivalry code of conducts that knights had.

And btw the teachers are in on the whole thing. They aren't stupid either. They know what role they are playing in this game.
Please provide your sources for these claims.
First of all, there is a difference between current law (which means that what AWS did with Parler is indeed perfectly legal) and a theoretical "perfectly fair" law, which is essentially what people mean when they say such and such should/should not be legal.

Secondly, there are limits even in current law on what grounds a business can refuse to do business. For example, Amazon could not refuse to do business with someone because of their skin color, or because of their religion. Extending this in more of a free speech direction (where companies could be prevented from refusing to do business with organizations whose message they do not condone) is not unthinkable (though there are pros and cons).
Okay. Tell that to Myanmar's unarmed citizens.

The government there has reduced the civilian owned guns by over half in the preceding decade. [1]

Is Myanmar and example of well functioning?

[1] https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/myanmar
What do guns have to do with HackerNews?

Are these 3D printed guns, the kind that circumvent every single knee-jerk regulation?
>"In countries where legal gun ownership is hard to obtain they have much lower rates of crimes involving guns"

I suggest reading a bit about countries like Mexico where the reality is totally opposite to what you claim.
I was BLOWN AWAY by this STUNNING new technology! The brilliant minds at Adobe have done it yet again. This changes everything. Adobe (ticker symbol ADBE) keeps innovating and defining the very future of creative imaging software. From the widely loved Cloud platform and easy rental model to the file formats which are so packed with features that each new update takes the competition possibly years to fully reverse engineer for interoperability. Probably because their engineers aren’t nearly as good!

Yes my jaw hit the floor when I saw this headline.
It is odd how the puritanical behavior still exists, it has simply been targeted in a different direction.
You should sub Active Self
Protection on YT. He covers a lot of self defense cases which happen more frequently than you might expect. He also doesn’t sugar coat it when people screw up.
Go ahead, give me specific names.

There were a lot of people that after the atrocities of the USSR and Mao simply stopped being hard-line Marxists and became Postmodernists. Others became revionist Marxists to attempt to learn from those disasters. That doesn't mean being both at the same time, and Postmodernism itself is quite a ways older than them.
Is there a data frame project for Node.js?
And yet, mysteriously, their two larger worries are direct markers of what they'll need to do to find a partner and establish a family. If it wasn't, their genes ain't going to make it to the next generation (which isn't exactly a problem, I suppose).

Rank them by the security of their relationship with their girlfriend or wife. The first few without a partner (the marginal ones) would in all likelihood have partner if they were an equivalent girl. There is a lot of incentive to behave competitively.
I grew up in communist Yugoslavia, and it is obvious both to you and me where this is leading to. You get downvotes from people who were sold a lie.
If you strip away all the political outrage what’s actually happening on a technical level is that git is adding a new feature: customisable default branches. I imagine they will provide an option to use it (“git checkout —-default” or whatever) and yes, you’ll have to update your tests to accommodate it. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to tweak code because of an external API change that doesn’t benefit me personally. Often it involves using an entire new API because the old one is being retired! Compared to that this is a walk in the park. A couple of hours at most. And yet everyone is expending hours upon hours arguing about it.
You can expect anything you want. Doesn’t make your expectations realistic or absolve you of responsibility, though.

Nobody’s going to step in and change things if it’s easy money and people will keep buying it and shifting blame. It doesn’t work that way.
High performance scientific computing is very much still a FORTRAN, C, and C++ game. And of those, FORTRAN has some compelling advantages in terms of first-class built-in support for multidimensional arrays, and quite excellent compilers. And, as others have noted, until the `restrict` keyword in C99, there were optimizations in FORTRAN that were not even possible in C.

I mostly used C for my (small-scale) HPC work in grad school because it’s what I knew best, but at several points I wished I had learned Fortran instead.

Probably one of the only “higher level” languages that’s ever been used for serious petascale scientific computing is Julia (first with Celeste on the astro side, possibly soon with CliMA for climate modeling), which not coincidentally follows similar array indexing conventions as FORTRAN. And while that’s what I mostly use now, I don’t see Fortran going away any time soon.

If anything, with cool new projects like LFortran [1] making it possible to use Fortran more interactively, it’s probably quite a good time to learn modern Fortran!

[1] https://lfortran.org/
The subtext of “armed society is a polite society” is that you don’t taunt or start petty arguments in the first place, in case the guy turns out to be like the one in the video.
Yes. I ought to have specified that I was referring to countries with the same level of socio-economic development. I intended to compare like to like so to speak.
You say that self defense is near the bottom of real uses for fired personal weapons. That’s not a useful metric because a gun doesn’t need to be fired to be a deterrent.
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It’s hilarious you think the US citizens would allow a President Xi type dictator to take over. You do not understand US culture.
It seems like lack of money is unlikely to cause liquidity issues rather than some other issue preventing money from circulating through the economy. Inflation actually solves the second problem rather than the first as it punishes those who hoard cash.