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Ah, the mythical "culture X is very direct".

Unless someone has real data on this, I'll keep to my anecdote of having worked with dozens and dozens of people from all over Europe and the Americas, and I can count with one hand how many people were actually productively direct and not just rude and immature.
That would be age discrimination, not discrimination based on being a white male.
Cherry tomatoes are awesome. Much easier to grow.
Highly recommend this RadioLab episode - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/septe...

(turns out they have more about cicadias!)
I heard (cannabis isn't legal here) it's mostly identical with growing tomato, so ...
I understand how intense the magnetic pull can be, but this is off topic in this thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190749.
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Also did a Show HN some time ago which was received well.
Couldn't agree more. In my experience, self-proclaimed direct people are often just violent communicators.

George Carlin said, "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?".

I think this thought applies to directedness as well.
What's the appropriate feeling about hate/hate subreddits? Mild annoyance?
Humans evolved melanin to resist UV while also needing UV for vitamin D synthesis. Your point is what exactly?
Well, I can tell you for sure that all people are not equal when it comes to safely operating a vehicle.

If they were all safer than me I'd probably be good with that.

If they were as safe as the average driver I'd be very scared of that.
This is pleasing to hear :)
So if the lab leak theory turns out to be true, how will people deal with the fact that they've been vehemently disregarding it as a "Q-anon conspiracy theory"?

And would it be worth questioning if any other recent topics labeled as "conspiracy theories" may in fact also be true?
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. If you reach "they have a legacy to uphold as the Kingdom of Heaven. Their mission under Xi is a moral one to once again become the shining beacon of civilization, the center of the Earth", you long ago left the topic of this thread.

Actually as soon as you went to "Chinese national character" you already did that. For god's sake please let's avoid $anyone's "national character" on this site. That's a fast track to hell.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27191023.
What does he base what on? The importance of empiricism in the modern world? The importance of oral storytelling and teaching in the ancient world? Both of those are extremely well known and documented, so I assume you mean something else.
Less than an hour of battery?
> This is different but related. China has no ability to influence GPS accuracy within its borders.

FYI: And even far outside of them too
Chinese New Year celebrations were cancelled and travel restrictions were imposed in January of 2020.
I like the part where it says that a classified ad showing the entire photo of the product being advertised is "wrong", and the version that crops the image and hides meaningful content is better because it has a "correct aspect ratio".

That's when I decided to quit, because I really don't care about this person's opinion of what kind of design is "correct".
If you believe RaTG13 is genuine, then you should look past no where. At the same time (2012-2013), same place (TongGuan, Yunnan), some miners are infected by a virus with symptoms very similar to covid, and WIV was involved during the time and has the samples from the patients which have never been released.

All this is documented in a graduate thesis by a student from a local college in 2013.
Whatever criticism Israel may or may not deserve over its current bombing campaign, you aren't going to convince anyone if you misuse phrases like "murdered in cold blood". That's just not what those words mean.
This is the first paper that I've seen that comes with a video abstract, This is an awesome idea. All papers should come with videos that explain it in layman's terms.
How am I supposed to focus on small mistakes when on every screen with the guitar, the image is not aligned with the text box below it?!?

https://imgur.com/DesCfwm
It's "impossible".

Private, independent geographical surveying is illegal in China. [0] So technically you can't do it even in the local coordinate system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...
Nice animations!

> "how it compares to what we use currently"

Speak for yourself. Ranked Choice is used in many part of the world already. I have never voted in an election with single-choice voting (and I always vote).
Why didn't he/she go to jail? 25k seems like more than enough...
> then Fauci and Straszak shifted funding to continue it in Wuhan

A nested conspiracy theory is just what we need for some more political polarization in the USA. Score!
In my case it's because my mum runs her own store on some shopping platform and I was thinking it might be worth suggesting.
> Tesla is achieving vertical integration to a degree no other mainstream auto OEM has achieved.

Tesla has made a lot of claims - volumetric efficiency, worrying about air resistance, when Musk toured the Toyota factory there was talk of them moving at granny pace. After the worlds most dramatic production ramp they still have yet to reach the capacity at Freemont of their predecessors (GM/Toyota).

Vertical integration represents the biggest issues with Tesla, a lack of focus. During the ramp of their mass production car, they went and bought Musk's cousin's company for a product that didn't even actually get released until basically this year. I don't see how that is a competitive advantage.
Another way to get at a similar disconcerting place:

Where is the animal population that harbored the virus?
I've seen downstream services fail and RMQ have to swap hundreds of millions of messages to disk, and then resume by itself as consumers picked up... maybe this issue you see affects certain versions?
Thanks for your reply.

It's not that I don't want any DOM, it's that I specifically don't want "the" DOM as seen in web browsers. What I want is a scene graph without layout or CSS, but with events and transform nodes and the like. You can get close to this in web DOM just by making everything absolute and just not using CSS, but without a way to measure text before drawing it, you can't do your own layout properly.

It looks like Sciter might be what I need to build on top of though, I will look into it further.
The Democrats (and the many “gullible” reporters like the one that wrote the referenced link) are simply waiting this out in hopes the average reader forgets that Trump and others including a few brave scientists pointed towards the obvious possibility of a lab leak early in the pandemic.
> So if the lab leak theory turns out to be true, how will people deal with the fact that they've been vehemently disregarding it as a "Q-anon conspiracy theory"?

If the lab leak theory turns out to be true, I'll admit I was wrong about my intuition. It's not impossible, but it's extremely unlikely. We've had literally thousands of new virus strains evolve in the past century of viral research and like three known "lab leaks". As has been repeated ad nausum, there is absolutely nothing surprising about SARS-CoV-2's structure or relatives or evolution and no reason to doubt that like every other pandemic this is a naturally evolved pathogen.

Now tell me why people keep INSISTING that this must be true absent evidence[1], and explain what you'll do when (as with basically every conspiracy theory) it turns out that there never really was any real evidence.

[1] Or don't. We all know why. The lab leak theory casts a convenient boogieman in the part of the villain, and distracts from fingerpointing aimed at parties closer to home who could have reacted well to the pandemic but chose not to. It "makes it all someone else's fault", so there's no surprise why it's so popular.
The statement is very explicitly not aimed at people who believe it’s a possibility.

The childishness of telling people to unfollow you on Twitter is undeniable, but isn’t really related, and is just what you get when you’re reading Twitter.
There's a lot of interesting conspiracy theories about why that is the case. Most people point to one of the Warren Commission documents obtained via FOIA about how the CIA must discredit people who doubt the official JFK assassination narrative and have them associated with communists.
Although the banking system is rife with flaws as well, it does all the worlds transactions and isn't an inherent pyramid Ponzi scheme.
That’s hardly a flood though. A flood is the village disappearing in day or two. Disappearing in a decade or two? I’m not sure what I would call that, but definitely not a flood.
Your father having a mini stroke at a very young age does sound to be like a pretty important risk factor. Family history is super important in these situations.
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It is worth noting that that problem is only understood by humans (as well as it is) after _centuries_ of study by many professional players. My understanding is that even very strong human players must study that problem for days/months/years to really understand it well.

So katago being unable to handle it without special training doesn't seem _quite_ as blind of a blindspot as the chess examples from the article seem to be (I suck at chess and I was able to understand one or two).

I'm not trying to undermine you mentioning this, in case it comes off like that, on the contrary I think the comparison is quite interesting. I'm curious if this is just a difference in go vs chess, or in the relative abilities of specific kinds of AIs to handle these, or maybe just differences in human ability to craft and/or understand different problem difficulties between the games.
This is my thought. I think it is hard to do a Bayesian analysis here and come up with priors everyone can agree on but it always seemed to me it would be like if a new Mad Cow disease started near Cambridge, Mass. If a new cow disease arose naturally it would probably be in a cattle farm with tons of animals being slaughtered - not next to a lab that studies prions.
Sorry, my bad, the study above is for high-income OECD countries as opposed to all of them. Mexico and Colombia are both much poorer than the US, and Greenland is both not a country and a bit of a special case since the locals struggle so much with alcohol.
the touch bar still ships with every current-gen MBP though; the Air never had one
There was a post about this last week where someone said the reason is to prevent the widespread confirmation of Israels nuclear program. Everybody knows they have nukes, but officially the US denies knowing.

These images would provide fairly strong evidence of Israel's capabilities, hell Israel has spent years trying to claim satellite images of Iran prove they have a nuclear program.
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It wasn't my intention to turn this into a nationalistic thread. I was just trying to explain that we're not going to get anywhere with an investigation because there are a lot of political, historical, and aspirational issues at play here rather than actual malfeasance. I'm not trying to discuss about who is "right" or who is "wrong" because we'll be at it all day and the thread will turn to garbage.

At the core this isn't really about this or that nation anyway; it's about human nature and how we respond to pressure based on our power. This is how humans will behave in a contentious political world, and why the distrust is and will continue to run high for years or even decades as the new political world order sorts itself out. One might even say "interesting times". Nationalist countries will always be oversensitive, up-and-comers will try out their new strength, and egocentric leaders will steer their countries in twisted directions based on idealized past glories and fables. Thus my final paragraph in the parent.

The "legacy to uphold as the Kingdom of Heaven" is China's past glory being used by its egocentric leader, similar to Trump's MAGA, or Bolsonero or Erdoğan or Putin or Duda or any of the egocentric leaders who've gained power due to fear and uncertainty in today's turbulent world.
I think people usually give zero weight to conspiracy theories not because they're never true but because it's much likelier that the experts know better than you do.
Part of the solution is pesticides. "Natural" pesticides do work. Pyrethrin is very powerful.

Part is cultivating carnivorous insects. Keep cats away from your garden, they hunt and kill the carnivorous insects.

Part is chemical deterrence. Dilute soapy water interferes with the life cycle of many pests. Garlic discourages lots of things.

Part is companion planting. I have not had much luck with this myself, but better gardeners than me (most) swear by the technique.

Be a bit vigilant. If a plant is being attacked, rip it out. Spray soapy water and/or garlic on your plants on a regular basis.

Accept some defeats. You will not win every battle with the little evil creatures. But if you engage with them you will stay ahead enough to have a fabulous garden.
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About 1. Are you sure? I think 80% of Japanese go to university. Or you mean they studied a different subject?
I would believe that Covid started elsewhere in China before believing in started in a wet market in Wuhan. It is extremely unlikely to start there given that isn't where the bats in China are or where new corona viruses are.

In fact, if you read any research that had been published by the WIV on coronoaviruses pre-2020 they all start by talking about expeditions to collect bat droppings 1500 miles away.
> You know it was once a conspiracy theory to say the Earth wasn't flat.

Archimedes knew the Earth was a sphere. You can tell the surface of the Earth is curved by the fact that the body of a ship disappears from view before its mast.
If you're into factory factories, you should really dig deep into delegation factory factories. There are many. They are a joy to work with as you get to export both interface blueprints and heap allocations to external third counter-parties. Just remember to sign full contract certs before doing anything by wire.
> I feel like I'm being gaslighted by half the people in this thread that are saying that "have been being watched" is a normal phrase.

I assure you the feeling is mutual :/. It really does sound perfectly normal to me. I can easily imagine e.g. Jonathan Creek saying exactly that.
I assume virology labs are not randomly distributed across the country, e.g. there could be many reasons why a lab studying coronaviruses might be located in close proximity to an area with a high risk of outbreak.
The 'banking system' is a vast and comprehensive global system upon which everything basically rests, it's the 'water utility' of economics and it's far far more than 'credit settlements'.

Given that BTC doesn't really add any value and consumes 1/2 that energy, it doesn't really bode well for BTC however the comparison is done.
Same problem with SARS-CoV-1. The Bat SL-CoV-WIV1 virus that is closest related to that is also from Horseshoe bats in Yunnan. The SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in humans was >700 miles away in Guangdong. The virus may or may not have used an intermediate animal like civets to jump to humans.

We've seen this happen before and we know there was no lab leak involved.
The Christian population in the Christian towns of the Westbank (Bethlehem) and in Gaza have been decreasing steadily for the past 70 years - this has nothing to do with the occupation of the Westbank and Gaza and everything to do with persecution by the local population. This trend is not confined to just the Westbank and Gaza and is in fact a trend that is occurring across the entire Middle East where in the past 100 years the Christian population has decreased from 20% of the population to approximately 5% of the population.
That would explain why there's only one way to write 'a', wouldn't it? The mystery is why it's not as simple as we'd expect.
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That's a pretty weak reference because it's part of an opinion piece with no references.

However there's an article in Nature which makes it clearer that the 1.2B figure is just an amount requested by those who suggested the project. A far cry from "current plans" to fund that amount.
Horseshoe crabs aren't crabs. They're distantly related, although both are arthropods. Not much brain activity going on there. But honestly pain and suffering are so hard to nail down outside the tetrapods. I'd say the fact that until we started harvesting their blood more sustainably, they pretty much all died is enough of a reason to harvest them more sustainably, regardless of how we define the ability to suffer. They're an important food source for a lot of different animals and we shouldn't be damaging their numbers when we can get the same product without killing them.

Also, they like to hump fishermen's boots during breeding season, which is absolutely hilarious and I think well worth preserving the species.
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That's interesting. Is it just easier because you can't accidentally move to diagonals, or it's easier in your mind because you've seen it more? If you can even tell the difference.
"until what end?"

A very useful question. In any disagreement, it's important to answer both "What would change my mind?" and "How will I know I am done/have won?"

Without answers to both of those, it is difficult to win over anyone who doesn't already agree. The first question shows that one is acting in informed good faith. The second lets people know exactly what they are being asked to agree with.
Increase from 49 to 122 is certainly a big increase, but these are extremely small numbers, considering they are derived from cities with combined populations of tens of millions of residents.
How do you feel about building codes?
One of those systems powers the entire global economic system, employs probably 100 million people, an we would be adrift without it.

The other doesn't do anything.

That one uses 1/2 the energy of the other should be shocking, I don't see how this can be a good look for BTC.

The notion of tying outcomes to whoever can burn the most energy (all other things roughly equal) was really not a good idea.
Definitely, chips and other components shortages are getting increasingly serious, and costs are going through the roof; voltage regulators that normally cost 50 cents have been selling for as much as $70.

There is indeed a lot of demand for chips and electronic components of all kinds but I understand that manufacturers claim is not real demand, is just a spike caused by uncertainty in international supply chains.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/04/22/200...

Just like we all saw a lot of people buying toilet paper like crazy at the beginning of the pandemic, well, there is also a lot of hoarding by big tech companies that make this shortage likely to last well into 2022.

So, they're not exactly willing to expand capacity for a demand that is most likely to go away eventually.

So indeed, it is a challenging time to design and manufacture hardware; all the big players are buying it all.

The only advice I could give to anyone that is starting to design their electronics to make the design as flexible as possible, leave room on the PCB for 2 or more alternative components.

You could even try to make 2 different PCB layouts and choose one or the other based on price and availability of components, oh and try to delay components selection as much as possible, that's the most useful advice I've read https://titoma.com/blog/reduce-component-lead-time
Seems notable that they are using the Sinopharm and Covishield vaccines which have been found to be less effective than vaccines like Pfizer or Moderna. Also that 63% of people with new cases had either not been vaccinated or had received only one dose.
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>"Uxn is a portable 8-bit virtual computer capable of running simple tools and games programmable in its own little assembly language."

[...]

"Why Create A Small Virtual Computer?

We want to produce lasting versions of our tools and games, and by using simpler systems(the UxnVM is only 200 lines of C) we can build more resilient software due to their lack of dependencies, and support older hardware when possible.

The Uxn emulator is extremely simple, and can be ported to an unsupported system fairly easily."
The two 'g's are double-storey and single-storey (looptail/opentail):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#Typographic_variants

FWIW the 'g's in my input box here are single-storey.
I do try to run away or cover my ears when I run into them...
It was already discussed in the past, one major source of the difference was that in Europe tabs are more common and it is also more common to talk about monthly salary,
My reading of the situation is that it's a convenient "national security issue" which happens to favor SK companies and insulate them from having to compete head-to-head with Google Maps.

Turn-by-turn navigation also doesn't work using Google Maps. Meanwhile SK navigation apps like Naver Maps or Kakao Maps have really poor navigation features if you compare to what you'd have using Google Maps on an American road.

The end result is that consumers suffer, since artificial market protection leads to an inferior product and no real need to improve and compete by players on the local market.
I don't like your alternatives, because they are not the same thing. They also use too many words and assume you have mythical improvement.

But also, "this is dumb" is insulting. It is not direct, it it's just insult with 0 information.

"This won't work" or "this will cause issues" or "this is complicated" would be better equivalents, because they actuality hint to what your issue is and wont insult. The management, if it listens and have good reasons is then fully able to modify their own plan or stick with it while noting objections. They are also fully able to explain why they are doing it is objection seem to miss the mark.
Then free beer access to universities coupled with an annotated book did the rest.

Had AT&T been allowed to sell it, I bet we wouldn't have turned with it everywhere.
> Auth/auth is routinely cached.

Which completely undermines the argument for not using JWT. "We can't use JWT because then tokens would be valid for 5 minutes after the user logged out" - but if you're caching your auth for 5 minutes then you have exactly the same risks.
Lol right, the rapist and the raped need to find a compromise
This information is publicly available and was mentioned in Wade's article. It wasn't against the law to fund it, there were loop holes in the rules that allowed circumvention with sign off from Fauci and likely another guy Collins from the NIH. So no need to dismiss this with the tired conspiracy claims.
It matters because I don't want this to happen again in 2025, and neither does anyone else. If COVID-19 was released from a BSL-2 lab, or even if it would have been studied in one under current biosafety practices, then perhaps such research should be conducted in BSL-3 facilities or above. Above all else we need to avoid shutting down the entire globe for another two years.