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> I see you conflating criticism of the actions of the Israeli government with opposition to Jewish lives.

No. I'm saying that putting israeli government under a completely different set of standards than any other country in the world cannot be explained with anything else rather than pure anti-semitism.
Yeah, I too hate it. Just because something is legal does not make it moral. We could use the same argument for the bankers who caused the subrime mortgage crash or for dictators who rob their own countries blind.
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My thoughts exactly. If "2h ago" was changed to "Online" or "Just now", then green would be "correct" to me.
What I found surprising is the the actual prevalence of narcotics.

> Lex, a drug detection dog in Illinois, alerted for narcotics 93 percent of the time during roadside sniffs, but was wrong in more than 40 percent of cases.

That means that the dog was right 60 percent of the time or that 55.8 percent of the people stopped actually had drugs in the car. Unless I am missing something.
The point was not "flawlessly" but lossless.
Thanks. Very clear now. Don't mind my question above about the same.
> There's a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a "Doorsluisland", and our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change - so hopefully things will change.

I am really not holding my breath for this.

I am glad to see the awareness of tax avoidance (through postbusfirmas, 'double Irish with a Dutch sandwich', etc.) growing, yet until we do something about the root cause, all 'systemic solutions' proposed by the bourgeois political system will still be like proposing to cure a heart attack with a band aid (the heart attack here being mass exploitation by global capitalism [1]: exacerbated by climate change and impending civilizational collapse).

[1] Zak Cope, https://anti-imperialism.org/2012/09/18/understanding-and-ch...
At what point in history was that?

Unix(tm) and mainframes predate windows server by a far margin and was never seen as inferior to windows by the wider sysadmin community, there might have been a time when windows server had merit as the discount solutions for people who could not afford highly available Unix boxen, but it was never seen as superior or particularly well suited for critical infrastructure.

I think that's kind of whats in play here, few finance systems were designed as critical as well finance was that department that generated a few reports that nobody really read and rarely interacted with the core productive business to the point where flaws/bugs in finance systems could have an real impact until very recently so what you have is a bunch of aging discount/non-critical system that have been promoted to critical infrastructure nearly by accident.

The same goes for the desktop support infrastructure build around AD and SMB file shares, where systems that used to be auxiliary nice to have for clerical workers ended up as critical for the actual productive divisions without ever receiving any real hardening.
Unsurprisingly, the scientists thought of that and their study explicitly handles it.

That's not the answer.
The "choose a country to agree to the terms and conditions" should have an alternative answer - let the timer run out! I was really smug about answering that one until it marked it as incorrect.
There are ways of collecting payments that don’t involve contactless card terminals.
One would think that the logo of the company would be enough to make sure everyone knows where the name comes from :)

At first I though it was kind of macabre, but then I got reminded that it's basically standard practice, exterminators frequently have bugs as their logo, bacon packages have happy pigs and so on.
In a world of low to zero interest rates and comparatively high tax rates, expect a lot more of this transfer-ownership-with-loan arbitrage.
Please do not hate-politicise this contribution. Please do recognise the surreal, incredulous impact of technological blockade on the population and contribute to the open source effort.
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What makes you say that it's aimed straight at children?
In technological matters, the governments in the EU are very behind

The Irish health service is currently under a ransomware attack.

Also remember when the Berlin courts were 'hacked' because they were still using Windows 95? (It's been a couple of years already)

And in the end, securing systems will help, but this won't stop until the people doing this are held responsible.
Can’t wait till 2050 then!
> Why doesn't it make a lot of sense? It requires for companies to have some representation here, probably the have a board of directors and a board of directors is where a retired politician usually goes to after their political career. You wouldn't want to scare the people away that will give you a really well paid job for hardly any work at all, would you?

For all the Dutchies here who want to learn exactly how this 'politician to corporate advisor pipeline' works, the VPRO docu 'Bankgeheimen van Joris Luyendijk' is great: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/...
I'm impressed at how fast other people are. On my first playthrough I was ~40 percentile for speed. Even on my second I was only ~52 percentile and that was when I knew the answers! I finally just went through a third time and clicked the buttons barely bothering to read and got 94 percentile.

Either others are fast or I am slow or people who quit early contribute to the duration stats. (Or some combination).

Fun game!
I don't understand. AP claims to have been using the building for years, and they didn't know that there were Hamas operations with them?

Not only that, but what is your proof to call it the correct explanation?
Obviously, creating a dark pattern so that people don't click the button that most benefit them, but the button that most benefit the company.
Because the vote needs to unanimous and some countries don't want to give up their revenue stream.
Anybody wrote a book on trickle-up economy yet?
> Why is this not written in international law and closed once and for all?

Because there is no single document for "international law" that you can just change. International law is basically word-of-mouth agreements and norms bunch of countries have, of what they agree to follow, without anyone actually being responsible for creating, maintaining and enforcing them.

Basically, international law is as far away from "law" as you can get in the traditional sense, and a bit of a gentlemen agreement today.
It's all subjective if course, but I didn't equate them, I added the word "positive" as a qualifier in the hope the extra adjective would help disambiguation.

Of course not all progress is positive so I was narrowing the scope of the word to limit it to only progressive initiatives that benefit a majority of constituents (in particular, in this example, an absent majority)
I'd also like to know. I tried to send those commands (SCSI I think?) to the drive, but it seemed to just ignore them. Heck, it seemed to ignore a huge portion of the different commands I tried to send it.
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Overleaf is open source, so you could run it locally.

https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf
Parent’s comment is probably suggesting it’s an intentional use of a black pattern where the goal is to discourage skipping.
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It's not just Shell, it's an honorary title for a lot of old 'notable' companies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijk
How is saying something shouldn't be marketed not a moral stance?

What kind of stance is it then? It doesn't sound like an economic stance, or a legal stance. And it doesn't sound like your motivation is so that you personally won't have to see them.
Germany passed legislation that makes it harder to build renewables like wind turbines.

This is very much a deliberate decision.
Many plants are still pretty easy to grow from seed, as long as you use good soil and find a spot with plenty of sunlight. Tomatoes and chili seem particularly easy, even some commercial varieties not optimized for hobbyists seem to grow okay in a greenhouse here in Northern Europe. I just took some seeds from supermarket vegetables.

Next I'm going to try some more traditional varieties that should be better for hobbyists.
Im dutch too and im super frustrated about this. I don't care about paying taxes (I've done so for the last 20+ years) even if they go as high as 52%.

But it really irritates me that:

- other companies with this tax deals pay almost nothing

- its unfair and destroys local competition i.e a Starbucks vs mom's coffee bar.
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Not that I encourage violating peoples privacy, but this might be a great option for citizen scientists to do some data analysis that wouldn't otherwise be done.
How complete is this? What features are in the paid-for edition that are not in the open source version?
It cycles. Win+Spacebar or Alt+Shift. Same cycling.
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I mean that’s how lots of business works? Is that not the whole basis of invoicing? I must be misunderstanding
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Somewhat related: this tweet from anonymous confession twitter account 'fesshole':

I train & handle drug sniffer dogs for the Navy. Once spent several days turning over a battleship from top to bottom after the dog kept giving clear sign. Truth is I'd realised a couple of hours in I'd brought the explosives dog by mistake but it'd gone too far by then

https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1344741374957129749
Before you down-vote, read a bit of history. His Comment is ironically, and the death of BSD was believed to be a sure thing.

It's called Irony, and it's a wildly misunderstood language concept here on HN.
If only there was a decentralized, secure, publicly available, encrypted way to store data and be able to share it with only the interested parties without having to rewrite proprietary systems from scratch with all the security issues that entails.

Too bad blockchain and similar are only useful for Bitcoin, buying drugs and scamming people out of their money and that absolutely no developments are happening in the area, huh?

In all seriousness, Web3 is coming and these problems are being solved. It will take time but we'll get there.
Try https://www.windy.com then. Will blow your mind.
.. so what happened with the ransomware finding? do we presume the ransom was paid, honoured and then remained publicly available? or that it was an automated empty threat which went unnoticed by both parties? kind of glossed over in my view the most important part of the story
Just like Volument, Simple Analytics is a website tracker. It reads device information, like the URL and referrer data, and sends it back to servers for analytics, statistics, or similar non-essential stuff. You must inform the visitor if this device information is tracked as per local European laws that are listed on our data-privacy document:

https://volument.com/learn/data-privacy

Both trackers are absolutely GDPR compliant because the visitors are not identified and you can of course just ignore the banner for all visitors, just like Simple Analytics advices to do, but that's a legal risk. Probably very small, but still.

Note that this is what we've told by GDPR professionals and not me interpreting the law.

Thanks for the compliment!
true, although I think it's worth pointing out that private prisons aren't as big a driver of mass incarceration in the US as a lot of people think. the privatization of services like food or health within public prisons, or replacing mail or in-person visitation w/ extortionate electronic systems, is probably much more significant.

similarly most exploitative prison labor doesn't take the form of producing goods for private companies (like the Whole Foods cheese thing) but consists of using inmates to reducing staffing & other costs inside the prison, like making them work in the kitchens or laundry

edit: immigration detention is the notable exception - about 70% of immigration detainees are held in private prisons, compared to about 10% of prison inmates
Aw man! First Azure Window on Malta now this one!
Fair warning: it's pretty much in super-alpha state. The Datalog queries are elegant, but EACL needs a lot of work and tests. Some of the features in the README are vaporware (like bitvector impl.), but I stand by the design.
Australia has followed America in making that mistake too, sadly. Other countries as well I assume. The politicians that push this, seem to make sure it’s their cronies that are the ones that get to make billions off said privatisation, too.
What different standards do you mean?
Renewable energy is exceptionally popular and it's getting so cheap that money is hardly an issue any more.

The biggest roadblock is opposition from industries that profit from the past energy system. This combined with listening too much to vocal opposition to renewables, which is usually loud, but a minority (local exceptions exist).
Re-posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24834636
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I think there's a way they could count the number of all the trucks without a computer.
“... with [these assumptions] in mind we can conclude...”

The exploration of what could have been is reminiscent of how an historian might piece together a narrative from available evidence. The historian, out of necessity, must fill in the blanks where there is no evidence, but also keep the narrative going.

I am not convinced the author made the case, but it is an interesting story.
> we'd all be a lot better off if taxes were formulated as a program.

They are. It is called turbotax and it is built and maintained by Intuit, who also has powerful lobbyists.

I think what you want is a non-spaghetti open-source software program maintained by a governance structure which is both

A. Competent and communicative.

B. Accountable to the same public which is in charge of doing performance reviews for the current legislators.
But, if we use the transaction count as a rough analogue, and we compare energy costs for the transaction counts, We'd come to that conclusion on a stronger basis.

The sheer vapidity of the "mining gold consumes more energy" argument bodes really badly for the intellectual honesty of the BTC proponents: At root, they actually don't care about the energy cost of the blockchain, because they don't care about it being useful, as long as their speculative gain occurs.
Ideed, there is https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-model/ no need to develop your own Domain Specific Language ;)
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> like Plan-crashes technically it's always human error

That's a $1M fine for misspelling "Plane". ;)

Also, it's definitely the software. There's a wonderful talk by Alan Kay regarding this, but I cannot find it. It might be referenced in Jon Blow's talk:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Yes, it's called "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
It is not about ethics. It is about making money without risking big troubles.

Ditto with drug dealers: they want to sell their drugs, without the trouble of dealing with the cops (whenever possible).
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How about both :)
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HAAAA! Nice.

Alright, THAT makes more sense ;-)
I write it that way. Here is a sample of my handwriting: https://i.imgur.com/QgYpgIf.jpg

As a kid, I was influenced by the font used in the Neverhood to adopt this style. :) At some point I even wrote lower case 'a's like in print. That didn't stick, but the 'g's did for whatever reason.

Neverhood example: https://i.imgur.com/kjrHpsr.gif
> What is wrong with 'recommendation service'?

Telling dozens of competing recommendation services apart somehow.
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People tend to react in a less that perfectly polite manner when being called "lazy" by random persons on the internet (for reference: in the top 20 google results at the link I originally provided are many instances of Culp taking "problematic" positions, such as denying that he lost the election and crying fraud for months after November, which is a sign of being detached from reality).
Haha, what's wrong with Dutch staircases?
Ooff - this test if complete nonsense since it lacks context. Large fonts could be advantageous in an app for people with bad eyesight, etc. To use this as a screening tool is *#!&!$ and immoral.
> Have your tried Bandcamp, Qobuz, Boomkat, Bleep and others?

I haven't. I'll check them out now :-)

> Interestingly you may have a harder time finding very popular mainstream music in a lossless format.

Oh I don't care about those things, actually. It's more availability and cost.
The story was that hackers had closed the pipeline (or the owners had closed it because its systems become compromised).

If the pipeline is seen as a piece of critical infrastructure [1] - where its closure can damage other parts of the US - then if Colonial didn't tell the FBI, CISA, the Department of Transport (or whoever is in charge of that part of infrastructure) that the reason they were closing it was because they couldn't bill their customers rather than it being a safety issue, I imagine they are in trouble.

They were lucky in that it was only down for a short period, perhaps its OK - if it had been down long enough so ambulances stopped running and food and goods weren't delivered - then I'm sure the government would have told them to restart the pipeline and billing would have been sorted out some other way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure_protec...
Hey, this is really cool. Could you direct me to the GitHub? I'd be very interested to check it out.

On a less selfish note, though I've no disability of my own (yet), I appreciate you building and open-sourcing such a project.
In gardens and farms you'll usually amend the soil not only with fertilizers but also with as much organic material as you can sensibly get. This way a healthy soil ecosphere is created that will take care of a lot of the soil depletion and pests issues.

On a balcony usually the containers are too small and too shallow to establish this kind of natural system. Also the environmental conditions are often varying too much. The containers might dry out at some time and be over watered at other times.

It is similar to keeping a very small aquarium healthy. The smaller it gets, the more delicate and instable it becomes. Thus to keep it simple, balcony and container gardeners are advised to exchange the pot soil on a regular basis.

Whan you can do to avoid wasting the "spent" soil, is simply to rejuvenate it. Mix it together with a large amount of fresh and healthy compost and other components to give it a boost. No need to throw it away.

If you want to make sure that pests do not survive and accumulate in this process, simply collect the spent container soil into a large compartment and heat it up to 90°C in the oven for an hour or so, sterilizing it in the process.

The other alternative would be to use hydroponics and specifically Kratky Hydroponics on the balcony and window shelf. I'm growing some beet root plants this way atm. Very easy and low maintenance.
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Paradoxically, the UK made it harder to build on-shore wind turbines, resulting in the UK having the largest offshore wind capacity in the world. Calling the UK "the Saudi Arabia of wind" is perhaps a bit silly, but it's an interesting example of how regulatory actions can't be examined in isolation.
Wow, what a terrible piece! Same ideas repeated paragraph after a paragraph. Was the author paid by word count?
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Perhaps I'm guilty of being US-centric in my views but I was truly surprised to see this list show that CNY has more 'market cap' than USD.
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Was it normal to go to job interviews shirtless 10-15 years ago? Please come up with a better analogy ;-)

Grandparent said "unforgivable".. sheesh, over the top much?
Thick desktops were ruled by Windows so if you wanted a custom application it was Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual C++, Java as desktop apps didn't seem to catch on for the enterprise. Even if you tried to bring an application to the web back in the 90s you could still end up caught in the Microsoft ecosystem via ActiveX.
Regarding the “foreigners can’t stay here”, from what I know, this is because it requires extra work for hotels, they need to report your stay to the local police station, so usually smaller hotels, or the ones in non touristy cities just don’t do that. (And I believe that any tourist, needs to report their address to the local police station within a few days)
That makes sense. But that seems to indicate covid 19 was entirely natural does it:

* highly transmissible

* not very deadly

* similar to know viruses in the proposed natural sources

A lot of people seem to really want covid to be an engineered thing. But I'm not seeing any evidence to support that. And I would highly support action against China so I am bias in favour of this theory...
Does it work on females too?
Are billions-valued companies really expected by anyone to be beholden to any morals? If so, why?
I really like this comment. It is an indictment of our society if we feel like we can't trust anyone around us. I have people around me with whom I'd trust my life; it is much better to surround ourselves with those people. And there are lots of examples of societies historically and now where things operated very largely on trust.
This is new since the last time I took a deep dive into things.

This does seem more straightforward, at the cost of essentially all of ETH2's advertised scalability and other features.

It still does not eliminate the challenge of actually performing such a delicate transition on a live economy. Which will be significant on a social front in addition to technical.

Not saying I don't believe these things can be done, or don't believe that they are good idea.
One very basic prerequisite for the approach (vaguely) outlined in the link, is to have machine-readable contracts/law/etc.

We can debate hours what machine-readable means, but definitely text in varying fonts and layouts IN AN IMAGE does not point in that direction.