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Not really, but it depends on context. The nuance is often difficult to detect when written. When spoken, a phrase like "quite extraordinary" or "quite brilliant" would usually be a superlative, as you suggest, but it would usually be indicated by emphasis on the "quite". And the adjective itself already has to be quite strong, so "quite good" will never really mean "great".
Maybe The Matrix wasn’t the right power fantasy to compare it to? How about the DBZ over-9000 meme instead because he does have a big group of friends that help?

The problem with power fantasies is that they don’t really show all sides of the argument. If the intentions of moochers is a social safety net and the intention of the looters is infrastructure maintenance, those aren’t villains.
Yes, for the broadcast. By all means. Pre and post match content is just noise. Interviews are too short and mechanical, wasting everyones time. They could use the time to show ads. Let athletes give their own post game analysis.
I am amused at the phrase "communist buerocrats [sic]". I live in the United States, where a particular bastard hybrid of socialism and crony capitalism requires that every birth be well documented by bureaucrats.
Most people live in the country they are born. Mobility is the highest of all time but it's still a very tiny minority of people who move borders.
Did someone just finish season 2 of For All Mankind?
In Toronto, there seems to be an urgency to everything. Calgary? Nope.

In Calgary, people come in early. In Toronto, people stay late.

Have never encountered a hustle culture here in Calgary. Toronto definitely has one.

Startups in Calgary seem to maintain their distinctly corporate nature.

I haven't had a lot of application experience in Toronto except as a new grad, but anecdotally the hiring process out here is far longer.
Sorry, but regarding outdoor experiences Oslo flat out loses to nearly any other city in Norway. And the point of public transport is irrelevant: it's good everywhere, and outside of Oslo commuting by car is much less of a pain as well.
Just curious are such policies considered a human right violation. For example could US or let's say France implement such law as well? Let's say the government just want's to prevent families having more than 5+ children for whatever reason.
UK specific article.

Anyone who has worked with payment processing can tell you how rare debit card chargebacks are, this is because they’re usually vastly more difficult.
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Another Brit. It's all in the context. "Quite" can easily be a strong superlative but it relies on shared understanding between the parties so I wouldn't depend on that interpretation.

It's fine in a spoken context as tone can add sufficient extra meaning. If you can guarantee the listener is expecting an informal register then it probably also comes across as a superlative. "I met him and he's quite unpleasant" would usually imply he was a total c*nt.
> At least most human produced space garbage is magnetic I assume?

You would assume wrong. Given that putting stuff into orbit is a battle with the rocket equation non-magnetic material should be expected because Iron and Iron containing alloys tend to be very heavy compared to similar structures in non-magnetic materials. Aluminum would be pretty common. Of course some of it will be magnetic but to assume that for the bulk will almost certainly be wrong.
> Email clients and server instances are just as centralized in practice.

I don't follow. Not everyone uses Gmail or the big email providers.
A lot of microwaves have a 'wattage' selector. Combo microwave/ovens often do, but they're a bit more upmarket.
The client that is sharing the album could append the decryption key of that album to the URL fragment, such that it never reaches the server.

For example: albums.ente.io/{albumID}/!#{decryptionKey}

Now on the receivers side, the client can use this `decryptionKey` to decrypt and render the photos.
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I say this tongue-in-cheek, but I'm reminded of Bob Saget's scene in the movie Half Baked. It's vulgar, be warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXHHevvr6Q
Cars are loud even if the owner hasn’t made the exhaust louder. Just the sound of tires on pavement, when multiplied across a dozen or more cars, can be quite loud.
I'm still using it and I have no intention of switching away. It does have its warts though, layout and high dpi support isn't as strong as WPF.
I meant without the NATO present.
This website is so laggy, really tells us about the state of frontend in 2021
Taiwan’s punishing work culture is forcing young people to game the system
That's out of date, the UK is now "opt out" [1]. Oddly, this is still called "organ donation".

[1] https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-you-to-decide/about...
Sure, there's lots of great calculator apps with visual interfaces.
Maybe, but probably for people without family, coming from different countries like Berlin. Depending on the ranking (which are like benchmarks), Berlin doesn't even appear in the top 10 cities in Germany https://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/staedteranking-2020-...
Removing tenure is indeed a very bad idea. However I think we're talking about using tenure as a hall pass for whatever asocial attitude some might practice. Because hitting your fellow researchers with a binder doesn't do much to advance science, that's for for sure... it's not like the tenured scientists had all the answers and by being aggressive they actually quench different - and possibly novel - ideas.
The CIA has certainly done some regrettable/shady stuff historically, as have almost all intelligence organisations that I’m aware of (reading about the history of espionage and covert activities, I often wonder how the people involved manage to preserve any sort of sanity in that mistrustful, cloak and dagger world?).
Although politically (and somewhat culturally?) natural allies, being that both entities are largely a collection of democracies/republics, if you view global economics as a zero-sum game you could say that the EU is a direct competitor to the US.
Indeed, although politically less-strongly federated/bound together, as far as I’m aware, the EU has greater wealth as a whole than the US does. Various governments, companies and individuals that oppose democratic forms of government and ‘liberal’ values see the economic strength, cooperation and mutual defence/offence promoted by an alignment of these two political organisations as counter to their interests, or potentially a threat to more authoritarian hegemonies. Contrary to what you say, the previous US administration actively supported Brexit. Many authoritarian governments around the world were also cheering it on, as presumably geo-strategically it was/is in their interests to divide and undermine democratic forms of government.
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People who makes these weapons should be brought to account. Engineers should be held to the same morality as those shooting the weapons
Jimbo's friends, i think.
Globally, population growth is the single biggest problem, IMHO, and it won't be possible to meet both environmental and development targets with current and medium term population numbers.

Sooner than later we will have to adapt to at best constant population, which will mean a large proportion of elderly.

Trying to boost births (as everyone is doing) is just kicking the ball down the road at the expense of the environment.

Now, in China specifically I think lifting restrictions won't have much impact. A child is very expensive and virtually all women work. They would need to look at a welfare system to help families for people to consider having more children. There is also the issue of migrant workers: many people from poorer areas work in richer cities and leave children with grand parents for years on hand. They are not going to have more children just because it is allowed.
The Greek concept of democracy looked nothing like the modern republic. A Greek democracy did not elect legislators: that function belonged to the people assembled as a whole. Nor did it elect ordinary magistrates, who were instead selected by random lot from lists of willing volunteers in a process now called "sortition." The rationale behind sortition relied on the notion that the ordinary business of government was mundane and required no special competence or knowledge aside from the ordinary citizen's share of justice and patriotism. The ancient Greek democracy elected only ambassadors and generals, people in whom authority needed to be concentrated and yet who also had to be competent rather than simply willing.
There was an ancient form of government in between tyranny and democracy: oligarchy. In an oligarchy, a few people were selected to make decisions for the rest. There were in different cities various methods of selecting the oligarchs, but popular election was certainly among them. The downside to regularly scheduled, popular elections, in contrast to the random chance of democratic sortition, was that the expectation of elections generated political parties or factions to attempt to influence or control the outcome of the popular election and thus control the oligarchy. This was, of course, impossible in a democracy, since no election was held: sortition makes partisan politics pointless.
In short, the reason that the word "democracy" is never found in the American Constitution is that America was never intended to be a democracy in the ancient sense, the only sense in which the Founders understood the term. The modern "democracy" of an elected legislature and elected magistrates is, in fact, what the Greeks would have termed an oligarchy.
I've seen bus- and truck drivers sit down and watched their seat just sink down a few inches, thinking that those must be so comfortable and absorb so much of the stuff that the passengers who sit on a bit of cloth stretched over vandalism-proof plastic chairs have to endure.
"You can't be addicted to technology because people have historically panicked over other addictions like novels and hobbies" is such a vapid argument. Human beings have a strong propensity for addiction to stimulation, in whatever form they can get it. Novels, sports, hobbies, social media, whatever. We know this, we want this, and we're willing to give it to each other in increasingly convenient ways. Player pianos, novels, television, smartphone, the march of convenient stimulation goes ever on. That doesn't stop it from being an addiction.

There is a dangerous threshold where the stimulation becomes so easy it threatens our everyday lives. My sister in law is a kindergarten teacher. She says kids ask her on a regular basis how to get their parents to talk to them instead of looking at their phones.
The dictionary definition of bigotry is the "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."

I think it is unreasonable to believe that no one has "unusual" characters in their name. And I also think that pre-judging people for belonging to a group with accented names, is discriminatory.

I'm not saying the people who designed this form go out at night shouting racist abuse at people. I'm saying that - through action or inaction - they are displaying their their bigotry.
If this is true I am happy for the clarification.
And in California. One patient died of CoVID-19 in California as early as 6 February 2020, though that only came to light months later. The patient had no recent travel history, so there was community spread in California in January 2020, at the latest.

I referred to the NY outbreak as the first "major outbreak" in the US, because it was much larger than the outbreaks in Seattle and California.

However, the fact that there were these early cases in the US just underscores how ineffective a policy of closing borders and then failing to test is (or worse yet, only banning travel from some countries and then failing to test). Even China, which has extremely strict travel restrictions (it takes multiple rounds of PCR testing and two weeks of quarantine to get into the country), has occasional imported cases. Without constant surveillance, those few cases would quickly develop into a full-blown outbreak.
It might be just a matter of terminology, but this comment has me confused.

Could you please give a counter-example of what has actually triggered a deep experience for you. Was it an even more potent psychedelic? Or do you just not consider this kind of experience deep? Or perhaps your dosage was very low?

For anybody who is reading naively, don't assume that you won't have a deep experience. Of course ymmv, but the consensus seems to be very different from my parent. Be advised not to take it lightly.
Understandable. But I will say that the government in question is well known for doing whatever it pleases.
lol, microsoft reached an all time low, they push adware to their own users because they refuse to use their bloated products, hahahahahhahahahahaha the irony
It's really a pity that this kind of comparison tables don't provide sliders to let viewers change scoring weights.
This is a horrible format for providing the transcript, and a long and boring conversation, so I didn't read much of it...but from what I can tell, they're just trying to redefine the word 'addiction' to a narrow, specific, and arbitrary meaning. I've consumed plenty of supposedly-addictive chemicals, and aside from nicotine, none of them have the kind of pyschological hold over me--or rewarding brain-chemical satisfaction--as video games. That's a more narrow focus than "technology", but these days everything is being gamified, so there's no clear delineation.
Not just that, but the mere fan vibration is enough to make ISS unsuitable for some particularily sensitive 0g experiments. There was an entire co-orbital module for ISS in the plans (that never came to fruition, sadly) to provide the station with a separate volume with high-quality microgravity, that would be in the same orbit, docking with the station from time to time.
Private institutions are even less accountable. I don’t see an alternative for advanced civilization right now.
This. It's nearly impossible to find a decent apartment to live in Amsterdam for example (not very far away from the city center). Same experience in other Western European cities.

You'll probably get a decent job in a few weeks, but an apartment? A few months if you are lucky. Same goes for almost all the other cities in the list, plus if you look foreigner or don't speak the local language (and only English) add a few more months of waiting.

Sure, if you are willing to throw more than 2000 EUR per month in renting an apartment, then you'll get one relatively fast. But 2000 EUR/month is not what I would call "decent".
Disclaimer: I did not listen to the podcast, I merely skimmed the transcript.

Is 'addiction' to social media the same as an addiction to heroin? No of course not. But it is evident that some people have great trouble to not have it control their life to a certain degree. If addiction is defined as "a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences" I think you could argue that some people are addicted to social media. Just because you're not injecting something into your bloodstream doesn't mean it can't be an addiction, many lives are destroyed by gambling addiction for example.

Also from the blurb:

>discover who really has the power to break these supposed “addictions.” (Hint: It’s you.)

It's always you who has to break the addiction. I don't see how this makes it an "addiction" instead of just an addiction without the scare quotes.
Median income in the UK is just over £30k (about 35k EUR)
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No, that's not how statistics work. Only planned abortions can tilt the girl/boy balance. Otherwise, every new child is a new coin toss, staying at 50% regardless of the other kids.
Now I wonder if a NN would be able to learn a nonlinear effect without aliasing, even if run at the original sample rate. Oversampling and filtering are, after all, things that could become part of the model too. Perhaps it can learn to approximate them with less CPU cost than doing it for real.
No, it will not be a sensible choice. There are some pretty deep, social problems in the crypto space that make this an extremely unlikely outcome.

The fundamental issue is that creating scalable, cheap credit infrastructure for mass economic activity is fundamentally in opposition with creating an investment that will continually gain in value. You see this really clearly in Ethereum, where’s gas fees can be exceptionally high compared to traditional financial institutions.
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There is an interesting point there - that new things are compelling in a way that can't really justify the effort we put into it. That radio was compelling in its time. I don't have a problem with using the word 'addiction' though.

But the tech we have now is coming through much faster - there is no way that we can play with it in our 'natural' way (over years) and overcome it. I think it is an overwhelming change.
I guess that's compensated via salary (they earn around 2x-3x more than their European counterparts).
Speaking about legality is so much better than speaking about morality, yes? It's convenient, sure, but that's about all it is. If you want a more 'precise' example, here's a thread from just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319477

> More importantly -- what are these people of whom you speak doing about improving their condition? Are they demanding a raise?

Not at all, I'm sure they just roll over and "let themselves be sacked" because that's how it works? Saying "just get a job where you're treated fairly" is extremely reductive. Said jobs wouldn't exist if the people employed in them were already happy with readily available non-"exploitative" jobs elsewhere.

I wasn't aware we were making economic arguments- after all your original comment ended asking whether it was immoral. Not economically unviable, not illegal. Immoral. Anyway, I'm not really looking for credibility, and my moral compass isn't tied to faith or organized religion, but your point is taken. Perhaps I am too, call it unrealistic or idealistic, for your taste. You're going to believe people like me invent problems to compensate for our failures, and I'm going to believe people like you overlook problems because they have found or earned enough to have the luxury to. We're not going to agree here and I'm not really interested in changing your mind. Have a nice day.
And a ton of money wasted on IBM consultants.
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Bottom line, it will take a death (or multiple) before countries even consider getting serious about this problem. Unfortunately, losing a bird would be bad and get headlines for a news cycle but that is 'just money'.
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"Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26056276
Culture also plays a big part. For instance, in many Hong Kong companies (where I live) people tend to stay until after their manager leaves. If the boss burns the midnight oil, so do the subordinates. If your boss emails you on Sunday while you are you are playing with your kids, you answer.
and then they burn them in Bulgaria ;)
Electricity is far from the only measure of efficiency in financial transactions. Cost overhead is another one.
I did it about 15 years ago, but I think this is what I was referring to - I had just purchased an SV650 and was told the test would be virtually impossible to do with the bike (and most bikes) due to some low speed maneuverability portion that was only feasible with the small cruisers they use in the safety schools.

My instructor claimed the DMV had done this on purpose to encourage people to take the safety course, how they can't force people to do one by law so this is how they got around it.
These kind of lists only reveal that happiness is related to GDP.
There is a new mount syscall in Linux 5.12, see "ID remapping in mounts" [1], that should help with all the permission madness, eventually.

It allows different mounts to expose the same content with different ownership, and in general to map permissions IDs between mounts in any way we like.

systemd-homed wll use that to abstract over the uids and gids of portable home directories, for example.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/837566/
The first is empty, pseudo-aspirational, typical early 2000s SV, bordering on caricature hogwash.

The 2nd is mature, focused, grounded in reality and is actually what wikimedia does.
So yeah #2 100%. But then again I'm not 12.
Emphasis on some though. My previous Macbook (2013 or 2014?) had a screen delamination issue. My current one (2016) had an issue with the speakers that required the whole top to be replaced - known issue, recall program, etc but still, and currently has another known issue with the ribbon cable to the screen being broken so the colors go all weird. It's impractical and too expensive to fix, but it's the kinda thing that shouldn't need to be fixed. And of course there's the issue some models have with the cruddy keyboard, etc.

I mean I want to believe Macs are skookum devices but they're really not the best.
> One Child Policy prevented ~300M births.

This is a questionable ascertain. The birth rate had already dropped, and had been dropping for over a decade, before the policy kicked in.
Went to Ottawa on a Sunday, everything was closed, pretty shocking.
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