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> that the main reason is a combination of virtue signaling, hygiene theater, and because it makes you feel safer.

Or, because you feel it's a conservative decision which is respectful of others. I'm not worried about incidental exposure from passing someone on the sidewalk, but I can only make that decision for myself, so I either mask up or get out of the way.

Etiquette is a rational enough reason.
My confusion is around the feeling that space and time must be preconditions for numbers and operations. How can you differentiate one number or symbol (or anything) from another without dimensions?

It seems to me that you wouldn't be able to have the notion of "1" and "2" unless they can be separated, and to separate them you need dimensions. So for a number to be intelligible at all, it requires dimensions; but how do you get dimensionality in the first place, if your equation is specifying the universe?
I like it. Prompts you to think about things you may not have considered.
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But saying "no we are all unique" is another blanket statement.

It's more likely we almost all share the same feature set. Doesn't mean exceptions or tendencies don't exist. You know... Like... Most of us have fingers, ears, skin, etc.
Because no reasonable people would put their eggs in “mustdie” basket (if you remember this meme from 90-s)
Kinda. The judicial branch is rigorously separated from the other two, but it self-organises in a way that often replicates the ideological groups emerging in regular politics (they have their own little parliament, basically). When the postwar political equilibrium crumbled under the weight of its own corruption and Berlusconi got in power, effectively altering the ideological landscape, the judiciary “class” did not immediately follow, since most of them saw the guy as a dodgy felon (which was technically correct); and things have been a bit hairy ever since.
Yup, it was broken for me too on Linux unless I somehow have managed to install both Xcode and MS Word. :)
So you are salivating at the idea that businesses that cared for their employees' safety go under just because you disagree with them politically.

Very nice.
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Pretty cool! I think all founders could use this to prepare for investor meetings, not just YC meetings. Additional features could include a pause button to stop the timer, click on an ‘explain this to me’ link, and a continue button.
Thanks.

Linux is tricky. Mostly because Chrome opens applications through `xdg-open`. Custom configuration on Firefox may also affect the result.
As others have said, there's already a turbopump providing kerosene at a high pressure. Also, the hydraulics are open loop; the dumped low pressure kerosene is fed into the engine. That's a lot simpler than a closed loop system, or an open loop system with a dedicated supply of fluid. There's no risk of running out of kerosene for the actuators because as soon as you do, you can't thrust anymore either and so the actuators don't matter.

They also use the kerosene to cool the engines' nozzles before it gets combusted. This keeps the nozzles from melting, and preheats the fuel so it combusts more efficiently.
I certainly won’t argue that Musk is stupid, but trust me, his Mars marketing has never won SpaceX a launch contract, and if anything it probably hurt them in the early days. This business was long dominated by stodgy defense giants, and it has seen a lot of wild-eyed idealists with big dreams and a little too much money come and go. Government and commercial launch contracts have never been awarded on the basis of idealistic excitement, and the conventional wisdom used to be that the SpaceX mentality just didn’t work in this Very Serious and Difficult Field.

In recruiting, on the other hand, the Mars marketing has helped them a lot.
Sounds like they need to work on their UX then because if people here aren't getting it working then it seems likely that most of their users aren't able to. Is it a default installed plugin in Safari?
My favorite way to program is a bit like "applied science". Lots and lots of small quick and dirty experiments to test hypotheses, followed by a slower integration period.
When people say something from MS is “the best and reliable” it can only mean 2 things: they are MS sales people or they just didn’t know any better yet.
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Thanks, we have our interview Tuesday so I don't have time to make anything too fancy. I'd like to improve it a bit but it's probably best to get back to building what matters.
Edge 90 is also affected. We tested it on Windows 10.
Always block all ads. Make absolutely no exceptions. There is no reason to feel guilty about doing this.
This is not like paying bug bounties to white hats who isolate and report exploits before they are utilized in the wild.
That’s its promise, e.g. https://valyala.medium.com/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks-...

FWIW, we are in the process of considering it as a single monitoring plane for multiple clusters with high cardinality metrics
If you've done what Elon Musk has done, you're definitely not dumb.

That's what I hate about people telling Trump is dumb. If you've done what he has done, he's definitely not dumb.

Funny thing is that although I never liked Paris Hilton, I was pretty sure she was not that dumb (turned out she wasn't).

The same story when I look at my Facebook feed. Plenty of smart people have all kinds of different views on Covid and vaccination. And all of them call the 'other group' dumb.

Seems like political viewpoints have nothing to do with being smarter than someone else.
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Thanks a lot! Yes, we have found these questions really useful in improving our responses when we have meetings with investors. It teaches you to really explain the crux of the question as simply as possible.
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It could be a lot. 100B makes a lot of millionaires.

Even at 10B, lots of millionaires are created unless all hires were made at high valuation. I was getting 1m/yr at 5B and I wasn’t even that early of an employee or high up. Expand that same company to 100B? Everyone would be getting millions out of it - even the lowest ranking employees.
Sorry I wasn't being clear about this part. What I meant is a comparison:

If there is an on-prem option, the release, the update/migration, the installation environment, and the documentation on deployment should be carefully crafted. All of these not only require more effort, but also require people to keep in mind not to stomp on things. And even worse, they have to search for potential problems with their imagination because they don't have access to the data with edge cases they're dealing with. If people are not careful, it's very easy to seriously screw things and lost some customers forever. On top of that, if fixes are required, the team usually needs to fix multiple versions over and over, of which the codebase might have drastically changed. The teams are usually less and less "brave" as time goes by.

For most SaaS without on-prem options, people can just focus on the functionalities and deploy many, many times a day. For non-critical issues, people don't need to worry about them, just debug what's going on and respond fast, and the issues are very likely fixed in hours. Plus they can use components like Kafka, Elastic Search, or even other SaaS as needed, without having to choose between re-invent things or ask everybody to install a zoo of components in their on-prem solutions.

That's one of the key reasons why web application is so popular nowadays compared to what we've done in the 90s desktop applications. Because it enables the "move fast and break things" mentality because more things are fixable in web applications. On-prem is like 90s desktop applications in disguise. Just try to imagine how horrifying if someone breaks the upgrade functionality. Or if one needs to fix a bug in Windows 10, they also need to fix it from like Windows Vista to Windows 10, where the codebases are drastically different.

In conclusion, on-prem sounds applaudable to the audiences on HN, but the reality is it doesn't work well for most for-profit businesses.
If your criteria for conspiracy is "takes government money" then almost every company, country, and citizen is part of this conspiracy. People are in fact able to see nuance
Hell, I'm worried about fossils on Venus buried under kilometers of lava. That's actually pretty likely IMO.
If they only had the choice to do one of two diametric opposite actions you might have a point. Of course, in reality, there is no such limitation. If the CDC had told the public masks work and research shows home made, cotton, or surgical masks are significantly better than nothing and we need to get our N95's to our medical frontline... Or, you know, been prepared with enough masks for medical frontline people. Doing nothing when blood clots were reported is a bad idea, doing analysis (ideally in advance) to know what levels of side effects should and shouldn't be cause for alarm would be a better idea.
> As for the black market, I'm not sure that's a bug.

Rationing implies a black market must be illegal. Besides, it enriches random people who don't need gas, at the expense of the people who went to the effort to supply it.

If that isn't a topsy-turvy unjust, inefficient and inequitable way to run an economy, I don't know what is.

Rationing suffers from the delusion that bureaucratic rules can distinguish who needs something and who doesn't, and denial of the existence of normal human motivations.
So you mean starting his own crypto?
The only thing I would change would be the screen. One with more nits would be really nice, and having a Ryzen version of this would also be nice, but I totally understand the availability problems of AMD processors nowadays. The rest of the laptop is pretty good.

Being able to change components, even the CPU and the side connectors, is a lot to a thin and modern laptop that cost around $1000.

I hope we have soon some 3rd-party analysis to know how well they are made. After having a laptop with hinge and structural problems with totally fine hardware, it's a big deal for me.
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They still pop up in the UK like a rash that won't go away.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jun/16/once-again-cop...
> how do you check your e-mail?

You don’t. That’s what breaks are for (assuming personal e-mail).

> What if there's documentation that needs to be read?

- Define an objective together (e.g. „We‘d like to understand how the HTML progress element works“)

- Optionally, agree an a timeout

- Split (both reading at their own pace, on their own device)

- Join and discuss results
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This is a bad idea and one that is going to backfire. The Indian variant of Covid is already spread out to over 44 countries, and although we don't have conclusive evidence yet, it is being suspected that the current crop of vaccines are not very effective againt this.

In the past one month alone, more than a 100 medics (who are all fully vaccinated), have died - albeit due to a different vaccine and higher viral load in their workplace.

It's a little premature to ask for masks to go off
Soo.... They invented an induction motor?

They are at least 100 years too late.
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She watches TV
What would you recommend today as a self-hosted solution today?
> Every piece of drug marketing I've ever seen has been accompanied by a comically long list of side-effects.

In as big a font / for as long and loudly as the supposed benefits? As prominently towards the top of the page / the beginning of the clip?

Let me guess: Hardly, right?

> What market are you seeing unregulated drug marketing in?

It's not a matter of regulated vs unregulated, it's a matter of how close to ignoring the regulations one can skate. And of lobbying the regulators enough to get very-skatable regulations... In what market are you seeing marketing regulations (for drugs or any other product / service) that cover length and prominence as per my first paragraph above?
Can you name the games?
> Yes, thanks to all the regulations.

No. That was months ago. What about those with vaccination or reconvalescence immunity? Those don't affect the curve?
I'm sure that with funding they'll have resources to focus on that
Superiority is a pretty loaded word.

I wouldn't call athletes "physically superior" either. That kind of supremacist talk is looked askance upon, for good reason.

But they're definitely faster/more coordinated/stronger than average, pretty much by definition. They can be proud of that.

Computer programmers are also smarter than average. If they weren't, they wouldn't stick around. It's not physics or higher maths; I figure anyone above the 80th percentile can do a good job of it, and some people in 60-80th can get the hang if it, but will probably never be great.

That's just the way it is. Phrasing it as being intellectually superior to the rest of humanity, that's just your hangup.
> Chinese scientists cottoned on to this very early

China didn't even admit human to human transmission until mid January.

They haven't even admitted when the outbreak started, which almost certainly wasn't November 2019 since there are suspect cases in Europe already at the beginning of December, of people that had never been in Wuhan.
I find the Honeywell consumer mask comfortable for daily low risk wear.

https://ppe.honeywell.com/

If I’m going to be in an enclosed space with lots of anti maskers for a longer period of time I use a 3M elastomer mask with replaceable p100 filters. It’s less comfortable though.

Also to be exceptionally clear, if you are wearing an N95 mask and it is fogging your glasses, it is NOT sealing properly. That condensation is coming from air that’s escaping out the top.

KN94 masks with ear loops are rather less effective as they can’t pull tight enough on the face to seal.
Does a triangle have a duration? Does a line? An equation of a line is very close to 1+1=2. X=2 and y=2 are lines.

Nothing in math has time or duration. 1+1 = 2 = area of a triangle with base and height 2 = 362/181 = -2(-1). These are timeless relations. If 2 has no duration, none of the others do. They are just statements of relations.

In fact ontic structural realism (some versions) says there is only these abstract relations and everything can be reduced to mathematical relations. Spacetime, consciousness, subjecive experience - all of it are just timeless relations like numbers in a table.
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From that article:

> It’s hard to imagine what Google looked like without ads

...I'm not too sure on that one, Colin. Not a whole lot of imagination required.
So glad you agree that having both WebKit and gecko remain active is a positive.
I don't think Earth is substantially more vulnerable than anywhere else in the solar system.

A heavy object picks up some kinetic energy as it falls into a gravity well, but realistically a tungsten rod moving at orbital velocities could destroy a space station or asteroid habitat just as effectively as it could destroy an Earth target. And there'd be somewhat of a difference: with Earth, we have an atmosphere to slow fast-moving objects down and provide an early warning that something is coming at us. (Probably not enough early warning to do usefully react, but still. A couple seconds is more than 0 seconds, and maybe there's some way to use that to a tactical advantage.) In space you'd have no warning at all, unless you can track it on radar or telescope, in which case Earth could do the same.

Earth's big advantage is that everything we do is so geographically distributed that any damage done is a temporary setback. It would be a sad day, but the human race will go on. Unless it was a really big rock, in which case it would be hard to redirect one into Earth's orbit without anyone noticing.

I suppose if you really want to be protected from flying rocks, the best bet may be to find some moon or minor planet with weak gravity, and tunnel deep into the surface and set up shop there. You could do something similar on Earth, though there's a limit to how deep you can go before it gets too hot. (In Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks, there is planet whose original inhabitants had built a deep underground subway system where train cars house the military command structure, and in time of war the trains would always be moving around so that a nuclear-armed adversary wouldn't know where to strike. That approach could work too.)

Realistically, though, I think if humanity develops the technology to start moving large heavy objects around the solar system, then almost everyone is going to be very vulnerable. The best defense is to be on friendly terms with all your neighbors, and have very good visibility into where everyone is and what they're doing.
Everything is "just physics"
Ah, Romania. Though this country does seem to have one of the lowest vaccination rates.
I’m not American but reason to not blindly trust the institutions you list to act in your best interest are unfortunately factual. What comes to my mind when I hear:

- FBI: Hoover

- NSA: Snowden

- Police: Floyd

For the CDC I know only of the recommendation to not wear a mask at the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s debatable if it was a lie given the knowledge at the time (many other health agencies did the same recommendation in other countries at the time).
Nervous as we’re on an /extremely/ cheap (almost free) legacy plan.
Presumably, USDT would lose value. What then?
Really, who gives a shit?
Sure, my point is more that Tesla could in theory live up to their astronomical valuation. They merely have to pull off an iPhone and create a new industry…
Just buy a Jetson Nano 2GB, they are cheaper than a Raspberry 2GB now anyway (atleast in Sweden where the Raspberry is sold out and Arrow has free shipping of the Jetson). And that little 10W machine is 1/2 a Nintendo Switch, it can play my MMO engine with 300 characters on screen without world or physics (probably 100 players when the game is complete):

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No. You're wrong.

Inherited guilt makes it sound like it's a grievance someone chooses to wear like a coat.

People suffer disadvantages brought by prejudice.

You can make that choice, because you don't suffer the same.

The fact you make these assertions via an account named 'tossaway' goes to show even you don't have courage in your convictions.
And yet the average non tech user took to it like a fish to water compared to all alternatives that came before it.
So the idea is to make every room a negative pressure room of sorts? I think this is probably long overdue, but I'm afraid I don't really see the paradigm shift.

Haven't all of these steps been taken on airplanes already, to some extent? From what I see, the "personalized ventilation" idea is substantially similar to what aircraft ventilation does, just adapted for a workspace/building setting.
Yeah, the Feynman story doesn't prove what people who bring it up think it does, or indeed, what Feynman presented it as.

Anyone can botch a test. You can't fake winning the Putnam.

He was a very smart man. Also very sociable, a man of the people. I think Feynman demurring about his 125 IQ test was a way of presenting himself as relatable. He could have easily done the opposite by slamming home the point that he aced the Putnam and intimating that he was one of the most intelligent men alive, but he was smart not to.
vaccination is probably the most broadly effective, but there are many ways, big and small, to limit the risks of transmission, so don't fall for the fascist line of thinking that there is only one true way, especially when an understanding of the risks (airborne is highly unlikely) and effectiveness of the various mitigations (no, you never needed masks outside unless tightly packed for extended time) is so woefully lacking.

and civic duty is voting, educating yourself on policy issues, obeying reasonable laws, and tolerating and even celebrating differences of perspective and opinion. it's about participating effectively in our democratic republic. it doesn't encompass every possible responsibility to every other human, like the term 'moral duty' might.
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They even have a disclaimer below stating that they provide more services than USPS but it’s so hard to tell if it’s flat out lie or not.
Also here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/689
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No single participant has a significant chance, but if each target becomes more expensive on average, then state actors can only afford less targets, which makes the society as a whole more resilient.

And if one target is so critical that it could take out a society, perhaps it would be better to either 1. Make it so minimalistic that it can be fully audited and secured or 2. Broken into smaller pieces and decentralised so they can either qualify for #1 or increase the total cost and complexity of compromise.
Or it turns out Bertrand Russell's teapot was made of Plutonium and de-orbited.
The entire cryptocurrency market would collapse and cryptocurrency would become usable again.
I think I'm closer to the imaginary side of the complex plane, but a little bit of real is nice from time to time.
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Shouldn't companies actively aiding fraud to the the tune of, I expect, $Billions have their executives go to jail and the company garnished of at least some percentage points of global revenue?

Taking money to put fraudulent ads above legitimate results seems like it's not doing the minimum due diligence to skirt around a willful negligence accusation.
They don't make people feel anything, all they do is show some pretty picture and a people do the rest themselves.

Should pretty images be considered shady marketing because of this? Probably no.
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I think the only way anyone would not find it would be assuming it doesn't exist. If you search on the web, App Store, iPhone search box, etc. you'll find it right away.

And the answer is, it's not installed by default, but there are a variety of third-party plugins available in the App Store.
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Its unbelievable that someone stoles a $20,000 car and do 15 behind bars, yet here we have folks that embazzled $850,000,000 and AG will sit down with them to kibdly negotiate a plea deal and penalize them 4% of what they stole.

I mean seriously what the hell happened to Lady Justice??
> MUDs were before my time, but I have a friend that claims to have spent hundreds of hours playing these text-based games.

> Addiction is a human issue and isn't limited to one form or another.

For me it was newsgroups. (Sure, I read them in a Windows-based Usenet reader, but it was the contents that were addictive, and that was all text.)