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It's still a joke. Even if he is Russian (which is a very convenient boogieman), the fact is he DID expose corruption in US parties.

He may be partisan, he may not be revealing damaging info about Russia. But if the information is true, so what? Shouldn't we be doing something about the corruption he revealed regardless of why he revealed it? I can't believe all you have to do is say the R-word and suddenly people are just willing to ignore everything he says, its ridiculous. Like uhh enemies of the US are more likely to expose damaging information about them as compared to allies, no shit?
I recently added an RSS feed to my personal blog, hosted on github pages, and I was astonished at just how easy it is. I wish all of my friends just had blogs and RSS feeds instead of Facebook or Instagram accounts.
I believe the person you’re responding to is only interested in take-home pay divided by hours worked and whether or not that number >=$100. I am not sure whether or not the requisite $100/hr number to become immune to bribery is pre- or post-tax.

The premise seems to be that if the police made $99/hr, you could easily get better services out of them by handing them a $100 bill, because then they’d make an extra dollar. However if they are making $100/hr, they’d become morally unassailable at that price point.

It’s a somewhat odd argument because instead of responding to a somewhat flippant comment about what it would take to have better interactions with law enforcement, we’re now arguing about hourly wages. It’s a pretty neat way to avoid addressing the actual issue at hand.
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Another survey says debt is being used to cover this. Over 60% couldn't pay for a $1,000 emergency expense without using debt:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/just-39percent-of-americans-...
This worked for me:

https://www.howtogeek.com/139433/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-...

I don't remember if all the instructions worked precisely without a few tweaks, as the Raspberry Pi software has changed a bit since this was written. But at the very least it's worth just perusing the article to see if this is something you'd like to tackle.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with a (Western Digital, yeah I know) USB3 hard drive, that is a file server for my family's home network. I have not set up automatic backups, but do it manually by SSH'ing into the RPi periodically. The Pi 4 doesn't seem to like powering two drives at once, so I plug the drives into a powered USB3 hub.

There may be better ways of doing this, but of course mental inertia has set in, since it works and has been trouble free.
Open your eyes...
The Gulf of Mexico is also on fire due to a pipeline leak https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1411075158006284290! Don't worry though, the predicted hurricane doesn't look like its path intersects with the fire.
mathematically its true though.

if 0.999... = 1, then 99.999...% also equals 100%
That crazy shit is only a problem because they built an algorithmic feed that automatically finds the most virulent bullshit, and then shows it to everyone it possibly can.

Drop the algorithmic feed, and you solve most of the problem. Unfortunately for Facebook, this would also cut their ad revenue, so they'll never do it.
> Why would wikileaks sit on those emails?

They did sit on them, until a timed moment.
Maine has the toughest facial recognition restrictions in the U.S.
Many states, such as Spain, are already pretending that COVID does not exist because of their vaccination rollout plan in spite of their rollout plan only recently started vaccinating 40yo with their first dose.
Well, I don't even want to touch the first part of this comment, there are smarter people than I that can put that logical fallacy to sleep.

Also, please don't be disingenuous, it is entirely feasible and reasonable to legally distinguish between a blog with 10 monthly visitors, and a corporation with 100 million monthly visitors.
I’d suggest a wonderful book called The End of Policing by Alex Vitale. I’ve read it cover to cover many times and it may include some insight that you’d enjoy.
It would have been a zinc-carbon battery[1].

I'm also very surprised that it's not corroded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93carbon_battery
>nothing about the comment I was replying to was about animal welfare.

Still doesn't invalidate his argument. Animals are harmed to produce dairy (Bobby calves), and this is a valid reason to avoid it.
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I feel like this is ridiculous idea with a book attached to it.

Happy to be wrong

But it reads like an advertorial

Like a politician blowing smoke up KWs asses

Look at this line:

"We approach each new task and project as if it was a completely blank slate, requiring an entirely new approach."

Wts?

Cmon, man.

Every other line is lionizing 'us' for our rugged good looks and ability to produce SUPERDUPERHIGHQUALITY ... something... in the face of almost insurmountable odds.

Its a self-parody.

Sorry. I'll pass.

But happy other folks find value in doing first the things that... need to be done first.
Why is this comment being voted down?
I agree that is a factor I did not explicitly cover but is part of the choice involved as an individual. I think this is modulated somewhat by the fact that at this point anyone who wants a vaccine has got one, other than kids. So at some point it should be a marginal concern when weighing the personal risks against the network effects you will be accelerating.
> your own web site

What about all those times internet infrastructure companies shut down the people who built their own website? Do you see the precedent that you're setting?
What corruption? Some staffers saying mean things about Sanders? Invitations to attend avante garde art shows?
They are half-inch wide 7-track tapes. It's the 7-track bit that makes them difficult to read (I have a half-inch machine but it's 8-track). I think it was NASA and a few other government agencies using this 7-track format (or 1-inch 14-track), rather than the 1/2-inch 8-track / 1-inch 16-track used in audio studios.

The workflow for these tapes is described on the Chilton Computing website [1].

(Note: this is analogue 7-track, not to be confused with the digital 7-track format used by early IBM mainframe machines).

[1] http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/satelli...
That would let too many people into the Lisp priesthood, can't have that kind of shenanigans going on.
things he says in first 10mins are coherent with what happens on the internet

what's the point of fighting, when you can spread bullshit on other's country internet and divide people?
The same reason the climate is collapsing: people don't like difficult truths.
He haas none, because its not true.
The "argumentation is hard to argue" because you do not have arguments.

If you do not have anything to add about the subject, please don't waste anyone's time complaining about form.
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>I imagine it may require some modification either way because of the oldschool battery.

It's a 22.5v ANSI/NEDA 215, and they still make them. Alkaline now instead of Zinc-Carbon. They are kind of expensive, at $20+ USD, but available.
Much of the article reminds me of the description of how NASA ended up launching a shuttle in temperatures far below what they originally would have allowed. You walk just past the line, nothing bad happens, so you move the line a bit. You walk just past that line, nothing bad happens...and this repeats until, inevitably, eventually, something bad happens.

Regardless of whether or not this pandemic came from this lab, the industry incentives described in the article can only eventually result in one.

We have a mechanism for dealing with this sort of problem, and it involves outside audits. The "bad thing" involves being slapped down by an outside authority that has teeth behind its recommendations. In order to have authority in places like China, it would also need to have authority in places like the USA, which means a bunch of American (and European) scientists would see their own work get more difficult, as well. This has to make it more difficult for them to decide to think objectively about the possibility that this pandemic came from a lab.
If you're interested in furthering RSS (and Atom, JSON Feed) - one way to help this along is to continue extending it to bring it modern. For instance, I've documented an extension for adding temporary 'status' to the feed - useful for pinned posts or broadcasting that a livestream is beginning.

https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Exten...

It feels like there is still a lot of room to extend these formats - part of the advantage to them is how easily they can be extended. The media enclosure extension is the reason they've been so useful for podcast subscriptions.
Impressive how little that battery leaked over all those years

It was very likely one of batteries where each 'cell' looked like a block of compressed charcoal, about an inch or two square, with a strip of plastic around the edge. When I was a kid back in the 1960s, we used to pull these apart and throw the cells around like stones.

The most common size radio battery then was a 45 v battery, about 7" x 5" x 2" (IIRC) with a small socket in the top of it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/unclegal/31122957375
Chaos is good word bot I think for another reason.

Weather is chaotic system in the mathematical sense of chaos. In this sense, the idea is that small changes can have arbitrarily large effects.

Climate on Earth has settled into equilibrium that for millions of years has been changing rather slowly and periodically.

We are now moving the climate out of that equilibrium and it is not possible to tell what can happen. There are not many hard bounds on what the weather can look like on Earth when (if) we come the other side.

We know how much energy we receive from Sun and this is not going to change and this puts some bounds on how energetic our weather can be. We know the oceans and atmosphere will not evaporate into space in any short time so we are not going to run out of air or water anytime soon.

Other than that, it is possible we can be reflecting most of the Sun's energy back into space (if we manage to snowball our planet). It is also possible we can get our atmosphere to retain much more of heat making it completely uninhabitable to human life unassisted by technology.

Even small changes in temperature can weaken, stop or redirect oceanic currents and these can have outsize effects on weather patterns. Sahara could be getting monsoons and Europe could revert to climate of north Canada (as its latitude would suggest).

More than that, in some places on Earth we are skirting the boundary of uninhabitability for unassisted human life. Humans cannot survive wet bulb temperatures 35 degrees Celsius or more. There are registered cases of waves of hot humid air with wet bulb temperatures over 35 degrees -- basically deadly for any human. These waves are going to be more and more frequent and may be responsible for increasing number of deaths. A large wave like that could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in a densely populated areas of India.

An even slight increase in temperature or humidity or wind patterns can cause these waves to be much larger or lingering for longer creating new type of natural disaster.
I am asking for links to published (not preprint) papers supporting what you said. I’m open to it.
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> Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is?

I’ve been following the story since the Slashdot days. Why am I not outraged? Why am I not protesting? It’s certainly doesn’t have to do with some political party that I don’t belong to. I fundamentally feel that Assange and Wikileaks went about things the wrong way. They feel more like an anarchists organization than some sort of journalists organization to me. I certainly do not feel outraged nor inclined to protest.
I don't think anybody is arguing against querying your emotions as part of choosing how to solve a problem. What OP specifically advised against was "wast[ing] cycles on the emotions of having problems". You will always have problems. Some worse, some nicer. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer. But your feelings about that fact won't help you move forward.

That's why approaching problems with an unemotional mindset is very effective. I can be mad that the bus was too early, or that my shipment wasn't delivered, or that I received a rejection. It's fine and healthy to feel those emotions. But they just tell you that something is wrong, without putting you any closer to fixing what's wrong.

> Finding purpose

Finding purpose comes from choosing which series of problems you are going to solve. Happiness isn't some final resting state you reach, it's more or less directly tied to solving problems. So framing is really important for making sure you actually face problems that can be solved.
They remind me of Alvin Schwartz illustrations[1] but made in Photoshop.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=alvin+schwartz&hs=uPB&source...
Humans used to have significantly bigger brains 35,000 years ago. Can you imagine?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-human-brai...
My support for libertarianism is tepid at best. People empowered or incentivized to act in bad faith is the thing we all want to avoid with our social structures.

Ideally we'd somehow expel being a bastard.

Where many libertarians brains break is they understand this with institutions that they choose to label with the word government, but once you remove the superficial label they think there's no longer any problems.

That's where anarchism comes in. But like libertarianism it means contradictory things depending on who you talk to.

Whatever you want to call it as long as we admit we are only in the current chapter of history and many more are to be written then together we can continue to try to build a better society
How about: "Turns out the universe is flat ;)"

But yeah the struggle to find the right argument, rather than to win an argument...

Sadly the second of those is, I think, the more common. Interesting to see from your example how stupid it makes us -- if I try to win an argument without understanding the alternative, the the thing I gain most, is a reduction in my ability to reason
Seems a bit weird to conflate emotion with cognitive biases.

Sure emotions aren't particularly intelligent, in particular they almost entirely ignore consequence, but that doesn't mean you should ignore them, it just means you should not use your current emotion to plan the future. You should however use your future emotions to plan your current course of action, because otherwise what's the point?
Saying that in reply to “We need to develop tools to help stabilize small-scale communities” reads to me like you are furiously agreeing with the underlying principle, while ignoring the substance of the argument.

Most local communities are not going to do that for reasons largely due to macro policies (which have positive effects too; eg labor mobility is harmful to local communities but well worth the cost).
Easily like preassembled on amazon prime and many more would try it
Add a few zeros to the daily fine if there’s less than 90% compliance at 95% of hospitals by year end.
If you say someone committed murder with zero evidence to back it up it's wrong-- at that time-- even if evidence ends up coming out. You still had no basis for such a serious accusation and would still be irresponsible to throw the accusation around as "true".

Sometimes people make unfounded guesses based on little/no evidence. Just because it turns out to be correct doesn't mean those people were any more justified-- at that time-- in their unfounded accusations.

Of course a person is now justified, with evidence available, to make these claims. It doesn't mean those who made them baselessly out of suspicion and guesses any less irrational for doing so before there was evidence. Making unfounded accusations doesn't retroactively turn an irrational accusation into a reasonable one just because it turns out to be true.

It's also worth noting that this is still unproven: it doesn't look good for China, but there's nothing definitive yet.
Hardest lesson I learned is that most people have no clue what they’re talking about. Especially with regards to life advice. If someone is pushing you hard in one direction, but you think it’s a mistake, it probably is. I’m speaking generally here, someone who has been writing Java for ten years, probably knows Java. But life advice wise, be very careful. Jealousy, arrogance, success bias etc heavily influence people’s advice
?? Little Snitch works fine for me on macOS BS on my M1 MacBook Pro.

Does it fail to work properly on Intel Macs? All of my x86 Macs are far too old to try Big Sur.

EDIT: Oh, I see -- first-party Apple apps can stream unlimited data, tracking your activity. Egads...

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Kernel extensions going away doesn’t mean their functionality is going away.
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It seems like a weird approach when the ActivityStreams spec is getting a lot more traction and semi-official endorsement.
Although this isn't specifically code golf, I think code golfing as a hobby can be fun and a good learning experience. It's fun to take a working block of code and try to trim it down as much as you can, often learning about lesser known built-in functions and syntaxes as you go.

Seeing your weird slurry of bytes come to life upon execution to fulfill some task is rewarding.
I bought a super cheapo USB hub with four ports and on-off switches. I didn't think I'd have any use for them, but it turns out they're extremely useful because it turns out I need to unplug/replug things on my desk much more often than I thought.

In related news, I used an old Android phone and DroidCam over USB as a webcam. The picture quality is stellar, much better than any webcam you might find, and it's very simple to stop it by unloading the driver (I know, I know...).
When I say redefine the project I mean make an honest decision as to what needs to be completed and what needs not to be completed, and then just finish according to what has been decided.

Lingering work, unfinished projects, are damaging to team productivity. It is better to turn a page and focus on a new task rather than have a dozen of them 90% complete and still occupying everybody's attention.

I try to set explicit success criteria for any task I create (ie Jira ticket). The task is either done or not done and success criteria are reference.

But this is bit more difficult on scale of whole projects.
What makes you think the setting is unrealistic? And why is it an issue that the housing looks pleasant? I’m sure it won’t look exactly like, but for the types of customers that are in the market for consistent 1.5 MWe at $0.06/KWh (their target), a decent-looking exterior and an ability to be placed in remote settings seem like desirable product features.
Hacker News allows anyone with an account to favorite a comment, no need to comment on it to save it. Bookmarks are also a thing for a while.
The growth mindset can be summed up in one sentence: "I can become good at anything."
Do you mean an Atari ST? The Amiga didn't have built-in MIDI and the Atari did.
> Manslaughter for publishing a bad scientific paper? Have you lost your mind?

I recommend you get acquainted with the definition of manslaughter, otherwise you wouldn't complain or object to it after learning the basics of this particular paper and how it's broken logic is being abused as a denialist propaganda tool.

For future reference, here's Cambridge Dictionary's definition of manslaughter:

> the crime of killing a person when the killer did not intend to do it or cannot be responsible for his or her actions:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/manslaug...
This is it. It’s not journalism when you’re just a cutout for the Russian government.

The irony of all ironies is that many of the same people who complain about editorializing in journalism and media are the same ones who back Assange.
> There's also some historical context that everyone seems to be forgetting.

Agreed.

The difference between January 6 and previous incidents is there's a very well-reasoned argument to be made by people who are experts in this area that the events of January 6 were the culmination of a self-coup attempt we typically only see in developing nations[1]. Fortunately the execution was inept and the institutions were able to withstand the assaults against them, but there were serious efforts to accomplish it nonetheless. The actual assault on Congress was just one facet of the attempt.

I've watched the footage of the rallies in the days before January 6. The people who assaulted the capitol were fed a firehose of lies for days and weeks (and actually going back to 2016) about the election which dovetails nicely with your point:

> The point I'm trying to make is that the technology a lot of us work on allows violent lies to spread with unprecedented ease, but there isn't a real way for them to be walked back after they're out in the open.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/11/capitol-ri...