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We already know the laws of thermodynamics has exceptions. In very small systems, the entropy of a system fluctuates randomly - up and down. A light ray traveling over extremely long distances will have its energy reduced through red shifting, and that energy doesn't "go" anywhere, it is destroyed. In both of these regimes, over extremely small scales and extremely large scales, there are exceptions carved out of the laws of thermodynamics.

We know for certain that our understanding of physics is incomplete. General relativity (as formulated) is certainly wrong, because it precludes the possibility of small things existing; and yet they do. Quantum mechanics (as formulated) is certainly wrong, because it precludes the possibility of curved spacetime, and yet we know spacetime is curved.

There is, of course, a minuscule possibility that the emdrive actually works. It almost certainly doesn't. Ballpark one in a thousand. But we can't exclude the possibility that it works, based on the principle that the the laws of thermodynamics, which already has two exceptions, cannot have a third exception.

There's big talk about humanity traveling to other stars, colonizing other star systems, colonizing the galaxy and so forth. For this to happen, we would have to be wrong about physics. There's simply not any way to do it by building on the foundation of what we understand about the universe. So investing in low probability speculative ideas like emdrive is still necessary, even though for any given idea, there are lots of nines that say it won't work.
> Soviet Russian historians are equally factual regarding these matters

It is within the Soviet Russian research tradition (after all, most publications on the history of the languages and cultures of Central Asia and the Volga–Kama were produced then, when these regions were within the USSR) that the aforementioned term "Arabo-Persian" is heavily used.

Your posts on this matter make you appear to be one of those Persian nationalists who can’t stop banging on about how Persians aren't Arabs. I think many people here are capable of understanding the nuances involved, and it isn't really appropriate for you to continue to claim victimization.
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> VC driven companies may only care about clicks or new user sign ups, regardless of how good the users are because that's the metric they are targeting.

That could bite them in the ass further down the road, when these bot farms are exposed by researchers. There was a few well researched bot farms on Twitter that are now defunct as Twitter dismantled them and now forces you to use a phone number to register an account, limiting attempts by people who want to create sockpuppet armies.
I guess this is reason enough to block that (DNS over TLS)
This article has a chart you can refer to: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-vaccines-efficacy-v...

It includes data on the variants and how the differing vaccines are impacted by those variants. Disclaimer: this is just preliminary data and obviously needs way more research.

I've also been following the Israeli studies for Pfizer and that's what lead me to choosing the Pfizer vaccine over the Moderna one.

One follow-up question I had is this: is it dangerous to have more than one type of vaccine? Provided it's spaced out long enough (2-6 weeks apart) and there's an abundance in supply of course.
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Adding the tilting is a tiny tweak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21945633
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This is just a link to a subreddit with infrequent posts. Not worthy of a post here
Great to have an Outcast developer right here on Hacker News! Outcast was a great game with awesome graphics. Unfortunately, Voxel Space died soon after.

Of course, this demo is just a starting point. I could optimize it even further, also in JavaScript or WebAssembly. But that's not the goal of the project. It is more a fan site for the technique.
No flag necessary for latest versions of OpenJDK 8, either.
No, you're missing the point, and worse, you're using fundamentally bad math and data to do it.

An athlete that made 500k over two years, i.e., $1 million total for his career, took home at least 600k, because the $500k was his gross income, not his taxable income (i.e., inclusive of deductions and credits). In other words: for two years of work, he made at least $600k, and made at least another $320k over the next 8-years post-tax, for a net take-home of at least $920k. That also ignores the usual side-streams that professional athletes receive (in the US): endorsements, image rights (aka, such as for each year's Madden), jersey/uniform sales, and post-athletic-career pensions. (Note that for each league, the vesting period for the league pension is shorter than the average career in that league.)

Of course if you assume the athlete blew their $600k+, had no other income, and somehow had an average-length career but failed to qualify for a league pension, they made less than the software engineer. But, if like most athletes aware of the short nature of their careers they invested it, then over the 10-year window they would have made an average of about 30% returns; if that window was the past 10 years, they would have made more than 200% returns. Either way, significantly more than the software engineer.

Your position assumes that athletes are too stupid to properly manage their money, and the derision is all solely on your end. My position assumes that athletes are intelligent enough to manage their finances.
First dose of Russian Sputnik V vaccine uses the same adenovirus as J&J vaccine, both of virus vector type. Second dose of Sputnik V is using different adenovirus. I would think J&J second dose would have to use different adenovirus also.
Sometimes it’s reversed. Spotify has less than 50% of the artists and albums I have on CDs and I have been tempted to buy missing songs on vinyl. Spotify’s playlists also rot, roughly 1% of songs disappear per year.
How are Perl's arrays and hashes any different from those in Python (lists & dicts), Ruby or Javascript in terms of practical usage?
I've lost many hours to OpenTTD, so great to see more people might find out about it now it's on Steam. To anyone who has only played single-player, I would recommend trying out one of the many servers - the massive networks some players make can be crazy.
Hmmmm, how would you test, for instance, a rendering engine?
Going to be doing some genetic engineering later tonight then.
It's a difficult question. You don't want to infantilize people, and there does seem to be a trend towards manipulating the informational landscape in order to create better outcomes in people.

At the same time, this is a country where 45% of people believe ghosts are real and 35% have been in contact with someone after the've died. You absolutely do not want people at the margin holding out for a longer time to get the vaccine they think is best when they could have been vaccinated a month ago.
Photoshop is a legendary piece of software when it comes to things of a visual nature, so legendary that they essentially had an annual subscription to use it since there were frequent new releases that a lot of folks felt compelled to grab to keep with the curb.

I think they tend to get a little too much credit for the subscription switch since their users were already being abused in such a manner. Office to Office360 is the one that's always astounded me. Very few people upgraded office outside of getting a new machine and most businesses tried to pin all of their users to a particular version of office (it was more important that everyone used the same version rather than everyone using the latest version) and, additionally, people weren't actually used to "paying" for microsoft stuff with actual cash. Generally the software you got from MSFT was bundled into the system when you purchased it, and while your money certainly ended up in MSFT's pockets you didn't directly interact with them.
Sorry, I don't see how that responded to my initial question.

> War, genocide, mass murder, bureaucracy etc... These are only enabled because people are being compensated on something they need to acquire goods and services in a region,

So in a world where all fiat currency is replaced by bitcoin, aren't people still going to be compensated and then acquire goods and services? So how does bitcoin avoid that problem? If arms manufacturers are paid in bitcoin, they are still going to lobby the US government to get involved in wars to increase demand.

If your main critique is capitalism, then I at least understand the specific philosophy you're criticizing. But if that's the case, then I don't see why bitcoin is a necessary part of that solution.

I'm really not understanding how "fiat" is the root evil here. Currency has value because people have trust in it preserving that value and being recognized by others for that value, no?
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It seems likely to me that solving breast cancer is easier/quicker than solving consciousness upload. If we do what you propose, a lot of people are going to die from breast cancer while we're waiting for upload to get here.
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At one point I worked with a couple University IT teams. It was a mess. IT little to no control of its own destiny.

Basic policies were fought tooth and nail by departments and influential professors / individuals who themselves didn't understand the ramifications of their decisions.

IT budgets would get cut and monies given to departments who would build catastrophes of networks, and when the department was tired of it would get handed to IT to make it work, the entire budget already having already been spent on making a mess.

I worked on several projects where complex microscopes or millions of dollars of equipment were connected to off the shelf consumer networking gear (and then they'd blast it with gigs upon gigs of data in a few milliseconds) because the consumer networking gear is what the folks in that department knew how to use. It was then handed to the IT team and then tickets opened about how 'it doesn't work' / it is described as an IT failure when nothing works.
Extrapolating your take on Python's snowball here means that Python will fast decline given it's just bloating with every passing year with whatever the PEP reviewing folk think is a good addition to the language. The TIMTOWTDI perspective that I personally very much appreciate and value is slowly taking the field from Zen Python's one obvious way to do it.
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I'm always surprised of the opposite when I see malware operations get busted with 8 figures of profit. Should have stopped at 7 figures and no one would notice.
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That's a great way to end up in turbo-prison en route to execution -- unless you're a prince of some sort. They're not a fan of drugs, to put it mildly.
You are welcome. Just to clarify now for others I meant "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" (couldn't find exact title on mobile)
If you drop enough feature everything is simpler.
> cloud storage for the 2 files you create per month?

This is particularly frustrating because I already pay for cloud storage and don’t want another cloud store. I liked the old days when companies would layer on top of Dropbox instead of trying to sell me a “value not upsell.”

I liked the old ynab where my desktop and phone pushed files to Dropbox. When they switched to saas with their own storage they sucked so much I stopped using them.
Whose law? The US? Thailand? China?

In western common law practice, sure. But elsewhere?
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No, this was actually a pretty reasonable and expected move on the part of the banks. They realized that providing code cards or code calculators to customers represented a expense that very few customers in our modern age were taking advantage of, and so they discontinued those programs. I love my LineageOS Android phone and I also own a PinePhone now, but come on, let's be reasonable and admit that we are so tiny a minority of customers that we don’t matter to banks.
Totally agree on point 2.

PHP's documentation was always excellent, available and was always a quick Google search away from finding the relevant materials. It was tangibly superior at the time.

Coding with other languages at the time always involved some kind of physical reference book (or some closed off "compiled" walled "context sensitive" help system whose search capability and discoverability was little-to-none).

Although I had sooo many O'Reilly reference books, I don't think I ever had an O'Reilly PHP reference book... (Not sure there ever even was one because it would be totally unnecessary)
The pub.
> Your posts on this matter make you appear to be one of those Persian nationalists who can’t stop banging on about how Persians aren't Arabs.

Not correct and borderline ad hom. I am a Muslim and do not care for such ethnic distinctions.
> Once upon a time, a government auditor insisted to me that keystroke loggers had to run as root, otherwise they would not function properly. So, I wrote a keystroke logger that ran as a normal user and showed it to him.

> He wasn’t amused. He said that I was violating government IT policy by demonstrating the program to him.

I once had a government inspector write us up because the secondary containment for our waste solvents was plastic, not stainless steel (the instruments emitted the solvents into glass containers, so this is just for spillage or minor overflows). I pointed out that these solvents were highly reactive with metals and our safety officer had specified plastic. She didn't care, so we got a ticket.

I went and got some stainless steel pans and placed the plastic containers inside them. Then I wrote back that I had purchased the steel pans and that the glass collection vessels were now enclosed with the steel pans. They canceled the ticket.

Generally I'm in favor of safety regulations but sometimes the enforcers are nuts. This was not the only such run in I've had.
Do you like Data-Oriented programming or do you hate it?
One thing to remember is that the current CEO Tim Cook started in the supply chain management side of the company...

And did that job for Steve Jobs during the growth of the iphone.

It would be expected that Apple would have extended insight into supply chain and capacity, seeing as the head of the company was/is the one who did that job.
I use my pirated copy of photoshop5 (I think) from 20 years ago for my infrequent uses of photoshop. But I have friends who use photoshop every day and pay their monthly fee, and are pretty happy.
> It’s hubris, or insanity, on the part of public health officials to expect an entire nation of people to put individualism aside for the sake of greater good.

It is absolutely not hubris to encourage people to take the vaccine available to them now, rather than wait a month for the one with 90%.

It's a prisoners dilemna and the government should encourage people to choose the cooperate approach by imposing incentives and manipulating the informational landscape.

It's the same reason why I support government recycling initiatives or the general idea of taxation.
No, it's a non-answer. If someone asked the question, they deserve a real answer. That's a great PR answer for advertising the importance of the vaccine, it's not an answer to a pointed and specific question from an educated person with access to either vaccine.
You can write Java in Kotlin in less than a day.
How does this compare to https://standardnotes.org?
I'd say the defining characteristic of Java is an unparalleled combination of performance, observability, and maintainability.
Send 200-500 personal cold emails to the person who is the buyer of the product.. over the course of 1-2 months. Dont bulk send, 5 emails take me 30min.

To get emails, ideally find a directory of companies you want to solve the problem for, then u can get a trustworthy person on Fiverr make u a list of names/companies/emails. I do it 50 at a time.
Outlook is probably the most common desktop client, but I think most people (even in corporate settings) are using webmail these days; either Google Apps Suite or Office 365. The former at least displays images by default (Google re-hosts them and rewrites the email source). Not sure if MS does the same.
The JVM will be getting state of the art, fine grained generics specialization, riefied generics and even Constant generics (you know that big feature that make a lot of noise in the Rust world)
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/m2dfb5/parametric_jvm...

(note that Kotlin already has riefied generics to some extent and that Scala support explicit Specialization (and Kt too through overloading))
This talk lists a bunch of them https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

The first one he talks about is that [] + [] gives you "" (an empty string). I don't know what universe that makes sense in. [] + {} gives you {} back. Meanwhile {} + [] gives you 0. Yes, the order in which you add types that can't logically be added ends up giving you different incoherent answers. {} + {} gives you NaN.

One of the other sibling comments said that it was mostly implicit conversions, which I think is the underlying cause of most of these.

That's not to totally hate on Javascript, but the language could probably use fewer implicit conversions and more type errors. I struggle to think of a situation in which those outcomes are desirable, and it can cause extremely hard to follow stack traces. A JSON API returns a list of objects instead of a list of strings and now your types are screwed up in hard-to-follow ways.
But that's not how insurance generally works. Maybe I'm not thinking about it incorrectly. Could it be that you're just using incorrect terminology. Insurance companies use risk/payout metrics to assign a premium and coverage conditions. You're going to pay more for insurance on a sports car than an average car. You'll pay even more if you live in a high claim or high theft area.

"same as how health insurance should operate and does in most other countries"

No, not even close. What you are mentioning with ex-US countries is not insurance. Those are government programs that have a substantially different structure and are funded through taxes.