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> What really makes me think though is the way China is being uncooperative

This reminds me exactly of the same kind of arguments made about Saddam Hussein when it came to WMDs before 2003.

It turned out that Hussein was playing to the domestic audience, not the USA. It made sense to him to stand up to the weapons inspections for domestic political consumption. Everyone in the USA, including the CIA thought he MUST have been actually hiding something, but he wasn't, it was all just bluster.

Similarly here, its likely all for domestic consumption. They just don't want to admit it came from China, period. They've been pushing the idea that it was spreading like wildfire in Italy in Sept/Oct 2019 (via some scientific article that never should have been published). They're happy to make the argument entirely about the lab leak theory because then they can rely on the scientific community to debunk that -- and then all that remains for domestic consumption is their ideas that it came to China in imported food.

And here's the kicker which is that if this doesn't make sense to you, it doesn't have to. They don't give one sloppy fuck about what you think. They care about what 1.4 billion Chinese people think. If you're convinced it is a lab leak they just don't care and that works fine for them. They can debunk that internally and push the idea that China is the victim.

And the zoontic theory doesn't help them as much, then they have to explain why it happened again after SARS-1 in 2003, and they might have to actually do something about a lot of the animal farming practices in China, and could lose face for domestic political consumption. Bunker mentality is better for authoritarian regimes than self-reflection about mistakes.

(See also Jose Mourinho's player management style)
There's no need for that when no one profits from a false arrest or false conviction. Civil asset forfeiture, bail loan firms, for profit prisons, breathtakingly expensive phone calls and all sorts of other scams are pretty much unheard of anywhere else and we honestly can believe what we are reading when we see these .
Yeah, I mean it's kind of sobering as well, thinking of all the collective hours spent watching ads when ad blockers are 1-click installs.
> the Palestinians, but they're hardly the good guys

Do you need to write "the Palestinians"? Sounds as if everyone were to blame for the rockets, but less than 1% of the people in Gaza, are in Hamas military wing.

Would it be weird to write "Hamas" instead about those who fire rockets? Or "terrorists in Hamas". (but please don't blame everyone for what a few are doing)

And in the same way, I wouldn't say that the Israelis are taking land from Palestinians on the west bank -- instead I'd write "the state and the settlers" take land. And that's also a small percentage of everyone, .. hmm seems it's somewhere between 5 and 10%, so more than 90% never did that
Well they knew the photo had a face, so maybe their algorithms simply prefer photos without people. There's plenty of reasons why you should prefer a photo of a location without a person, even if blurred - this being one of them!
So it was always better to not separate the plastic for recycling, just send it to the dump.
I would imagine trade centers would be another possibility.
There is a chart in there that says that 33% of municipal buses are already electrified. I cannot believe it. Did China secretly electrify its whole fleet?
Maybe there is yet-unknown physics/gods that show up in minecraft speedruns. Maybe he cheated.

We all have our own priors, I guess, but personally, I consider one of those to be more likely :D
> no timers in real life terms and conditions

I’m not sure whether you’re being serious about this or not. But I’ve come across distressingly many cases where they’ll expire your session (and probably without telling you) long before you’d have time to actually read the full T&Cs they require you to theoretically accept.
I used to work regular night shifts when I was in my 20s - 2300-1100.

public transport was available for those times, but occasionally I’d drive as it tended to be faster - especially on the way in.

One morning I was driving back home and it was really sunny, no AC in the car, and the traffic ground to a halt on the m25. I closed my eyes and woke when the car behind beeped me for not moving forward.

Fortunatly it was stoped traffic rather than sluggish traffic.

It was the day shifts that needed a taxi - 1130-2330 for example was too late to get the last train. Work provided a taxi at those times (and on Christmas Day / Boxing Day)
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When it still was available they had a license, but only when using Google Maps in China.
Even so, some one has to pay, and the government wouldn't be keen on just handing out free fuel either.
Civil and mining engineers have been making use of centimeter-accurate GNSS configurations for years now. The equipment necessary costs a few thousand dollars, more if you need even more precision. Most major civil and mining engineering projects use self-guided earth-moving equipment, not feasible without this technology.

The problem for homeowners is that surveys aren't enough. The vast majority of land titles are not registered in precise coordinates; they're registered in terms of landmarks, benchmarks, and so forth. This is changing at a glacial pace, but for now, the tech isn't the problem.
Tbf I don't have time to dog into journals on the subject, we're browsing hn here after all and short summaries are appreciated. But since penning that comment I'm feeling a little more educated by https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
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> Electric cars are much safer for humans than ICE in accidents because batteries could displace under people instead of hitting people like engines do.

Don't engines do a similar job of going underneath the chassis in high impact collions?

I don't think EV are safer, because there aren't as many data points just yet - but seatbelts definitely help.
One of my favourite Magic stories is Luis Scott-Vargas splitting the top 4 of a Vintage tournament with Storm having forgotten to put Tendrils of Agony, one of his two win conditions, in his sideboard to Burning Wish for. Most of his opponents scooped with Burning Wish on the stack.

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/2vaoe4/lsv_on_the...
Well that was a delightful video. Very whimsical.
The author of this article comes off as really very clueless.

Yes, in fact, if a store's computers go down they don't just let customers walk out the door with products and hope they get paid eventually?

As far as I understand colonial is basically a big gas station connected with a series of tubes. Look ma, the gas pump still works but it doesn't keep track of how much we pumped or charge us any more!

Of course they shut down if they couldn't bill?

It's being treated like some kind of greed when in reality they didn't want to give away millions of dollars of fuel they couldn't track or bill for.

The colonial pipeline was fine... except it couldn't do the thing it does which is sell gas to distributors, it could only give it away.

Sigh.

This isn't "fake news", but it is... shitty news? News which gives facts and a ridiculous analysis?

I'm still trying to find out what actually happened in Israel but god forbid a news source or commentator actually lay out the details of a complicated situation... (if you're not getting everybody pissed off about X, then you're not doing your job as a reporter?)
My whole collection is stored in ALAC. Any half decent software or hardware player will support ALAC these days.
It's a game with a lot of trick questions. These are the ones I got wrong the first time around.

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I didn't ask for empirical evidence. You call it an argument. It's not an argument. It's just a naked claim, without any kind of basis at all. To ask for support somehow seems to offend everybody.

Okay, fine, let's just believe whatever feels good to us.
Can we get the title fixed please? Even if it's misspelled at the source.

..., shut down ...
It does matter how many jobs you work though, because low-wage employees arrange things so nobody gets 30 hours a week to qualify for full time benefits. Also the kinds of jobs that people who work 3-4 jobs often work typically have chaotic schedules that aren't set well in advance, meaning that they inevitably come into conflict creating stress and the potential to be fired for not being able to show up at one of them.
> Please click yes to agree to the Terms and Conditions. Or No to decline

Click No. Not all buttons are styled as buttons!
Others seem to think your claim for evidence is unreasonable, but I think it's a perfectly reasonable to ask.

One thing I've seen is that Indigenous Australian oral history is thought to extend back at least 37,000 years[1]. Natural events that have been demonstrated to have happened tens of thousands of years ago have been passed down in the oral history of some civilizations. This knowledge conversely seems to be lost with a transfer to written records, probably due to a lack of people keeping mental note of ancient knowledge. e.g., a lot of Native American history is just lost for countless reasons, despite them having written records now.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-anci...
Fun game, I wonder if all the stages are technically legal.
A big benefit of using LaTeX for writing is that it enforces typography rules like this out of the box, without having to study typography beforehand. I hadn't really really why italics just look so much better in LaTeX than Word, so thanks for sharing.
During lockdown I got a cheap Huion drawing tablet for my desktop Linux and it has been great for figuring programming or mathematics problems out "on paper" but with non of the cons of running out of paper. I use the xournal++ app.
Which is like the butcher telling me he won't sell animal carcasses, whilst displaying his fine selection of sausages for sale. Of course he won't, he is the one who uses them. He will sell me the sausages though.

Google is a data consumer, and from it they formulate products and services that they sell.
Talk to your manager about it. If they're a decent human being they should be able to make it work for you. If not, then you're probably better off somewhere else (also because a manager should respect their people's wellbeing, if they don't then you shouldn't work for them).
RTK has an accuracy of around 1cm. Its widely used by surveyors (and other things like agriculture, construction machine control, etc).
I'm talking about the initial reception Scala had from a lot of people in Java community. Btw downvotes further confirm my views of them as being overly conservative and hostile to different views.
The BBC article in the submission mentions this restriction and the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment.
Until the bottom eats into the middle and you have a critical mass of people with nothing to lose.
I wonder why you wouldn't just use ALAC full time? As mentioned in my other comment any decent piece of software or hardware supports ALAC these days.

Sure, if you don't have any use for iTunes or iOS FLAC is the obvious choice, but if you do use iTunes there's really no need to keep two formats around. Just use ALAC.
The analogy makes no sense considering there's no way for people to create bugs (unless they're within Facebook, hah) to farm bounties for.
The recent interactive submissions are stellar!
I have no idea what makes you think they weren't aware this was copied.
What's the trick to 28?
> I once wrote some code to recover degraded CD/DVD(+/-R) sectors by disabling the ECC of the drive

How did you do this? Is there some SCSI/ATAPI command for this?
Bit off topic but I love the NetBSD logo. It's very pleasing on the eye.
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Antoher site I use to get garden information is https://www.jardineriaon.com/en/
Definitely my point was rather that after investigation there is still no clear answer as to what caused the clot and/or what that familial problem would be. After all familial risk is going to be inherited or through a shared environmental hazard.
If the power grid in your area loses its billing system should it just shut down?

What I don’t get is why they couldn’t gather the data manually to keep things running and sorted it out after the fact. They didn’t have any DR planning for something like this? Station people with clipboards and cameras at all meters. Measure the inputs and outputs as they occur. It seems there was just no real impetus to act responsibly here.
Really nice photos, must have been quite the trip!
This reads like it's something new, and maybe parts of it are, and probably any implementation will be 'new' in the sense that it uses recent technical innovations; but when I was in law school 10 years ago, I had a professor (with a chair in 'computational law' or something like that) who had been doing such things since the 1980's. Being a software developer in law school, I looked into his field quite a bit (there have been entire conferences on this topic since the 1980's) and there have been a lot of 'research projects' that explored various parts of what it seems this project is proposing; but none of them practical or big enough to make any impact. And, as usual in academia, it then dies off when the funding ends and the next cycle begins.

Anyway, I'm interested to see what will come out of this, but I see very little awareness of past work, which might be because they want to make it look more revolutionary than it is; or because they're reinventing the wheel. Time will tell.
So, out of curiosity, where should I go or what should I read if I'd like to find out what the modern archeological views are?
I use linux so it was hard to answer this properly. Most Linux Distros have weird UI philosophies. Well it does its job
Likewise.. but I love that they just went with the Die Hard reference.

https://www.google.com/search?q=die+hard+bsd+9.2
I am Dutch and this does not at all reflect my experience. I'd be curious to see some real data on this phenomenon.
Mirrors on top, operated mechanically I would guess. The article mentions 'transmitting' windspeed measurements to a satellite this way.
> if a store's computers go down they don't just let customers walk out the door with products and hope they get paid eventually?

This is exactly what we expect them to do in a crisis situation. This is also how Hollywood portrays ethical behavior. The store owner in Jericho (2006 TV series) is the first to come to mind, but there should be plenty of other examples.

And good deeds come back to us.
Haha I didn't notice the reference, that's great!
> Both very good, and both are much better than hot air!

No.

Hydrogen is highly explosive/flammable — that is why Helium is preferred.
No. The response was overwhelmingly political and censorious and it has everything to do with the extremist culture around politics where if Trump said "A" it must be "not A" and viceversa.

You're justifying that censorship saying that the "wrongthink people" were close to this so that's why it was mostly shunned.

It's disingenuous. This whole year and counting (specially in places with slow vaccine rollouts) has been full of instances where certain challenges to the official local government doctrine where combated heavily with not much argument other than personal attacks and requests for faith in the "one true narrative".
>My favorite is one where a previous entry-level guy wrote a loop

I'll be honest. I barely write any sort of loop in groovy.

I just checked. One of my projects had 1 for loop and zero while loops. Everything else was done with findAll, collect, each etc.
This is awesome. We made a game in a related vein:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/21/opinion/priva...
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This is an important point. Communication is not about dumping information on your conversational partner, but about doing so timely, appropriately, and with empathy.
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I think maybe you have to think about the total economic impact for the article and frustration to make more sense. Fuel is a very fundamental part of our economy and almost always goes toward producing much more value than the value of the fuel itself. Add to that, shortages can and do contribute to irreversible losses like loss of life. If every gas distributor shut down because ransomware hit them all, you could completely grind the country to a halt.

It's not too far fetched either to hope that their customers would be willing to self-report. Sure you might get some people who'd take advantage of the situation, but it's not a the total loss scenario of giving away your product for free that you're talking about. Add in the opportunity cost and shutting down delivery if you have alternatives that may not be 100% accurate billing is probably a net loss for the company, though it's impossible to say.

> I'm still trying to find out what actually happened in Israel but god forbid a news source or commentator actually lay out the details of a complicated situation... (if you're not getting everybody pissed off about X, then you're not doing your job as a reporter?)

It's a bit ironic to take a morals-over-profit stance on reporting right after having taken the profit-over-morals stance of gas pipelines.
It's a heck of a statement isn't it! "Wow, the USA is probably worse than black people countries."

Awful.
> It might work on a dense atmosphere, such as Venus.

Gravity also matters here.
All you need is to run the build in a VM (a container/chroot also works almost always since the Linux kernel maintainers are committed to not breaking userspace).

It's not done usually because it's also very useful to take advantage of new language and library features and all software is supposed to not break compatibility with new versions, so if there is an issue due to upgrading it's because an incompetent maintainer failed at their job.
How come that billing is basically ALWAYS the typical system that - no matter what - runs on Windows? SMEs software, big enterprise software and everything in between, you can have 99% of your core systems running on whatever operating system you want, or several of them, but the billing/payroll/accounting system will ALWAYS be Windows. Even if SAP has Linux/Unix versions.
> didn’t actually shut down the pipeline. It impacted the billing system at the Colonial Pipeline Co., which shut it down because they were worried about how they’d collect payments.

What? Did the author think that the ransomeware literally locked valves?
Is there good info on this somewhere?

Colonial Pipeline is a common carrier, "moving gasolines, kerosenes, home heating oils, diesel fuels and national defense fuels" (the US military runs on something which has the additives to be used either as JET-A or diesel fuel) "to shipper terminals in 12 states and the District of Columbia." Some pipelines switch from one product to another, usually with a slug of water in between for separation.
There's valve switching, tank filling, and tank emptying going on. If you can't coordinate that, the wrong product ends up in the wrong place. If they lost the system that tracks what's where and where it's going, they have to shut down, or, as they seem to have done, dropped the pumping speed way down so they could operate the system manually.

It's not just one pipe that carries one product.
A bugs value is due to its impact, not how hard it is to reproduce. And there may have been a lot of initial research involved, who knows. Still, the money isn't paid for time spent.
That's a strawman, though. Pretty similar to when someone is talking about government overreach with regards to restrictions or the effectiveness/negative effects of lockdowns or PCR tests as ways to deal with a pandemic and people call them "covid deniers" as if they were denying the existence of the virus.
What do you call it when a military air force with enormous reconnaissance capabilities bombs civilian targets and civilians, including children, die?
Both are valid, it’s journalistic headline abbreviation. It can be read as:

> [the] shutdown [was] to make sure

Or with your correction it would be read as:

> [it was] shut down to make sure

So it’s not incorrect in the source article, it is just using the noun shutdown, rather than the verb to shut down.
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You also can't expect people to bother checking whether you are asking the question of the person you originally replied to. I actually thought about it myself for a second, and decided not to.
> The article for this post is a pretty good source: 100% rate for the dog indicating the presence of drugs is pretty much a rubber stamp.

If you read the article you will find a description that the dog didn't alert the first time around the car, didn't alert the second time around the car, and only alerted after the cop maliciously signaled to the dog that they want an alert. To me that doesn't sound like a bad dog, it sounds like a bad cop.
How does this compare to Cadence/Temporal ?
The interpreter has been developed in Java but, from a linguistic perspective, Jolie is completely independent from it. It is possible to implement the interpreter using another technology. Thus, it is wrong to state that it is another Java framework, but it is true that, by now, it is coupled with Java because you need a JVM for running it.
This is exactly why Epic is trying to claim that Fortnite is more than a game right?
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes
I recall seeing an ad, when I was a kid, that bald dude selling non-stick pans by blowing an omelete. I thought it was silly.

Is cleaning a pan really that much work?
Why was this comment downvoted? It's a very legitimate and relevant question.
Look, there's a pretty plausible story (see, eg, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...) right now that we, as a society, have spent a significant amount of effort performing research that had a relatively high risk of accidentally creating and releasing a pandemic virus into the wild, and then it may well have done exactly that. It's not a wild idea that we should 1) figure out if this story is true and 2) if it is, stop doing it.

> Potentially ignoring the fact that there will be unknown or covert actors ignoring all of these safeties.

I don't mean this as negatively as it sounds, but I literally don't understand the argument you're making here. It feels like it's of the form:

"Because <bad actor> might do <bad thing>, there's no point trying to encourage anyone from not doing <bad thing>."

Is that...right? Because if so, do you also feel like police forces and laws against murder and assault are a distraction from medical research devoted to savings the lives of people wounded in violent crimes?

I think it's reasonable to suggest that "setting houses on fire less often" or "banning setting other people's houses on fire" or "mandating more fire safe construction" are all complementary strategies to "getting better at extinguishing house fire".