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Tolkien, in addition to being the great fantasy writer of the 20th century, he was also an Oxford professor and the century's great scholar of Old English. And in his domain were the myths of northern and central Europe.

He needed no popular book of the occult; he had read all the original myths in their original ancient languages. There is plenty of scholarly work describing his sources, and he wrote his own essay on it, though it's more conceptual than about primary sources: On Fairy-stories.
The issue with single payer is all the special interests that already make our costs the highest in the world would lobby to make that single payer pay more. We have this already. Medicare cannot by law negotiate drug prices despite probably being the largest single payer.

The out of network provider in an in network hospital is probably the most perverse thing to happen. One could be unconscious at a hospital and have out of network provider Dr Smith LLC stop in for a few minutes and send you her own bill.
Math from First Principles
TV is a particularly harmful form of entertainment. There are plenty of studies on the negative correlation between hours of TV watched per week and attention span, short-term memory, and general intelligence. The real cost of TV watching is not the number of hours watched, it's the effect on the other hours of your waking life. For me, the effect is noticeable -- when I cut out TV from my life, the improved mental clarity is quite palpable.

So I've switched to other activities for fun, which may not be as physically healthy, but have less mental cost. Smoking a cigar, a light tipple, and reading books while listening to music in a park don't take that toll on my mental acuity.
There's a vast army to take care of that.
It’s not clear that condo units have higher long-term capex costs than single-family homes; arguably economies of scale make their capex lower as a percentage of home value. So the problem isn’t a problem of cost per se, it’s a collective action problem.

The issue is that the buyers of condo units don’t really pay much attention to the condo association’s reserve balance. A current owner who contributes $1 to the reserve fund won’t see a corresponding $1 increase in the value of their unit. The increase, if any, will likely be a small fraction of that.

So an owner who’s considering selling in the next few years - which is common, since the tenure of condo owners is lower than that of single-family homeowners - is rational to fight attempts to fund the reserve. They’re also rational to keep monthly condo fees as low as possible, since buyers do look at the fees. But that also makes preventative maintenance difficult.
I'd say why government focuses on the weak when enforcing taxes and doesn't go after the rich and their notoriously tax avoiding multinational organisations?
And it is also true that no one can effectively compare risks when the assumptions can not yet be relied upon
There's no way the cops doing this on duty have that music licensed for non-personal use. Where are the RIAA lawyers when you need them?
To be clear, I was saying that integrating LSP into neovim makes neovim more monolith-y than it was prior, not that LSP was a monolith! :)
These drones will plant 40k trees in a month
I think outright religious bans on murdering, raping or enslaving people outside of your community are fairly recent developments. Even the old testament is fairly ambiguous on this.
I sat on the board in my previous neighborhood and served two terms as president, this was definitely true for that community too. And, many other HOAs of individual homes (structures) too.

We were lucky to have a decent management company that provided a lot of guidelines and information about what we should be doing. As well as the things we were obligated to do (either because of bylaws or laws, in Texas). Still, any time there was a storm resulting in additional costs for landscaping/cleanup, or work on a damaged/degrading stone wall, or the pool area, etc. We heard about it from some neighbors who didn't want to spend any money, because it didn't directly affect them.

It's definitely an area that more regulations would help everyone involved. We were not experts, but could make some decisions if we had the right information (or knew what questions we should ask).
I think many comments (and also researchers in the comment articles) are rejecting the idea of an troll like neanderthal too fast.
Yes, some details are rather fantasy then based on real research, but the overall idea makes sense.

Controversy around why the neanderthal went extinct exists for a while now.
I think it is very unlikely that a successful human-like species goes extinct without a fight. They where stronger and bigger then homo sapiens.
If it is true that they replaced homo sapiens as the dominant species for a while then maybe they are not the friendly giants they are thought to be. Even homo sapiens cannibalize, so that some physically stronger Neanderthals would also do this seems not unlikely.

The last neanderthals might have lived in relic populations in north eurasia until several thousand years ago without leaving much archeological evidence.
Also oral traditions might survive for very very long.
But yeah, maybe it is not so politically correct to 'talk bad' about a race that fell victim to genocide. We rather focus on the positive things about them.
There is a middle ground for VS Code users:

https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim

This extension integrates neovim into the VS Code environment by mapping keystrokes from VS Code to the neovim binary. This approach (which requires 0.5) is much simpler and more robust than attempting to emulate all of VIM, as the VSCodeVIM extension does.
Very useful - I've had bugs due to incorrect strings entering enum like values the database and I imagine using db-checked enums like this would have saved me some huge headaches
Oh my goodness. this is simply something else. This is why the country is so divided.

Despite my dislike of left-wing insurrections, like seattle's chop, in which they actually did install a government [1] for a few days before American forces reclaimed it, it would be absolute hyperbole to believe that it was in any way an actual threat to American sovereignty.

Or when protestors broke into the Supreme Court to overturn the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, no one compared it to the civil war. How hyperbolic can we get?

And yet, hyperbole like yours is not only tolerated by mainstream news sources, it is parroted by elected officials, other news outlets, and regular people. It's absolutely insane.

[1] By all measures, Raz the warlord's occupation of chaz qualifies as having been, for a few days, the sovereign government of that area. They enforced a law, punished criminals, taxed people, and provided safety, all the while preventing other forces from doing the very same. This meets any reasonable definition of sovereignty.
> Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Do most Americans even know who Julian Assange is?

Why should anyone trust Julian Assange in the first place? Specifically, why should anyone trust that Julian Assange dumps all the data Wikileaks receives, when it receives it, instead of selectively disclosing whatever Julian wants whenever it suits him? The latter behavior, which has borne out, constitutes the actions of someone with a hidden agenda who should not be trusted.

Like, what has Julian done to earn our trust, and demonstrate that he is being completely forthright and transparent?
You've misunderstood. There's no extra hardware, secret or non-secret. It's possible to run devices in reverse. Take a computer with separate headphone/microphone jacks (not the combined jack), and plug a speaker in to the microphone jack and scream in to the speaker; the speaker hardware works just fine as a (crappy) microphone. Or try the opposite, plug a microphone in to the speaker jack and turn the volume up, you'll hear sound coming out of the microphone.
The release looks solid. Can you guys produce a bulletin point list of:

* bugfixes

* new features

* removed features?

It is easier to approach.
Brickit's AI Camera Scans Your Lego to Suggest Things You Can Build
>Funk, then a 21-year-old pilot, was the youngest of the 13 women who passed the same rigorous testing as the Mercury Seven male astronauts in NASA's program that first sent Americans into space between 1961 and 1963, but were denied the chance to become astronauts themselves because of their gender.

This is completely wrong.

The Mercury 13 were given (most of) the physical examinations that early astronaut candidates were given. While it is true that the US government was not actively looking for women astronauts, these women were not eligible because

* For NASA Astronaut Group 1 (1959, Mercury Seven), no applications were taken; the US identified military pilots and brought them in for further testing. No American woman was a military pilot.

* For Group 2 (1962, "The Next Nine"), applications were taken but being a fighter test pilot was a requirement, and there were no female test pilots.

* For Group 3 (1963), the test pilot requirement was dropped but having fighter pilot experience was not.

While women were among the first shuttle-dedicated astronauts (1978's Group 8), they were all mission specialists. The first NASA female pilot astronaut, Eileen Collins (fighter test pilot), was chosen in 1990.

>Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos will be joined by Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed NASA's astronaut training program

This is also wrong; the physical tests the Mercury 13 passed were not "NASA's astronaut training program", but part of the initial screening process. Not all male candidates who passed the physical tests became astronauts, either.
I do wonder if there could be some nifty filtering tech that would allow the two voices to be isolated and the higher-pitch one (Taylor Swift) and music be removed.
> Just because you're interested in something and it's important to you, doesn't mean you need to impose it upon other people!

We're talking about a moral issue though. If you want to argue against advocates on moral grounds, that's one thing - but how is "it's not important to me" a relevant argument?

If you don't donate to battered women's shelters, can you still refrain from domestic abuse? If you don't advocate for the protection of children, can you still treat them with respect personally?

You don't have to take an interest in animals or veganism or farming or any of that to recognize a moral argument about them. If you think that argument is flawed, engage it at that level. Otherwise, I just don't see how your sentiment matters in this discussion. It wouldn't be mentioned in any other discussion about morals.
If she were 70, it would not be a conversation topic (she would have been vaccinated as the benefits would considerably outweigh the probability of risks short, medium and long term). But as she is young, there is a big question mark. And as it is not an exact science and nobody knows...
It's quite interesting you should mention political affiliation and facism. Did you know that when the DNC emails were hacked and released via WikiLeaks as if they were exposing a major scandal that the RNC had also been hacked by the same people, yet no emails were released at the time? Considering just how much information about Republicans meeting with corporate donors and just how directly that results in Republican legislation, it's quite hard to believe the DNC emails which exposed essentially nothing were the only thing worth exposing. Assange facilitated this partisan assault on the American political system.

Do you have any idea how much Assange and WikiLeaks has cooperated/collaborated with Russian agents? The US 2016 elections were a shit show in no small part due to WikiLeaks releasing only the Democrats emails. Zero Republican emails were leaked, and the most damning part of this is that the released Democrat emails were completely innocuous, but when a website called WikiLeaks releases a huge bulk of emails they've labeled as suspicious or scandalous, stupid people jump to unsupported conclusions and you end up with unqualified politicians undermining democracy, and we're not the only country this happened to. Assange and WikiLeaks are guilty of participating in Russian attempts to spread disinformation in support of the Russian's agenda at a bare minimum.

Assange might not be guilty of being the kind of traitor we traditionally think of, but he's still a dangerous individual that will help overthrow legitimate governments by misrepresenting illegal activities as exposing scandals, none of which actually exist.

So tell me again, how exactly is Julian Assange the single most hard hitting journalist of the last decade? Very little of what he claimed turned out to be accurate, and he participated in withholding information from the public which actually did have a chance of exposing serious political corruption. I might also remind you that despite essentially being a partisan shill for the Republicans (greatly helping them win in 2014 and 2016), they attempted to put him in jail as well.

The problem isn't that a lot of Democrat rank and file want to see Assange in jail, it's that way to many Republican rank and file haven't seen him for the liar and yellow journalist he his.
>If you view life as a series of problems to be solved, then life will become a bleak series of problems needing to be solved.

I disagree with this, conditionally.

It depends on how you perceive "Problems" and "Solve", as pedantic and Clinton-esque as that comes across.

Perceiving your "problems" not as barriers that hinder your progress, but identifying winnable opportunities in your own capabilities is a hallmark of the Growth Mindset[0] This is such a good quality, one that everyone can cultivate given the motivation and effort.

[0] - https://fs.blog/2015/03/carol-dweck-mindset/
The issue becomes clearly in focus if you consider the question of what to do about children. They do not have the same risks of COVID, nor its long term effects, in its current form. If they did, we'd be in a much deeper crisis and (valid) panic about COVID than we already are.

Under those assumptions, and the ones I've stated, it becomes clear at the very least this is a difficult question. This doesn't mean we can't form good priors, but it does mean that anyone discounting that process by claiming it is self-evident beyond a reasonable doubt is the kind of behavior we should push back against given it will ultimately cause more problems than it solves.
Welp, guess I'll be taking all my code off of GitHub now, lest it be copied verbatim while ignoring my licenses.

(I'm no John Carmack, but still.)
I think only Github's lawyers would interpret what GP posted the way you did. Looks like weasel wording to make such an interpretation possible, while making customers believe that code is more or less synthesized in realtime. "Snippets" makes one think one or two lines of code, not entire functions and classes.
I think one of the key reasons is that scientific effort and attention is spread over the largest possible space, in order to make good use of grants and brains, most people work on different topics, and are not intimately familiar with the work everyone else to develop a 'smell' for doctored results.

In contrast Speedrunners are working on the same problem, and are intimately familiar with the details of their chosen games, are aware of all the tips and techniques one could use to get ahead, and if someone suspiciously pulls ahead of the pack, you bet they will analyze everything to the smallest minutiae.
Screwing around with insurance process bullshit can easily exceed the value of whatever you're trying to regain/figure-out.

Hours, literally, of on-hold time, likely more than once, and if you're trying to get them to pay for something they don't want to, you're likely going to need to get state regulators or lawyers involved, which means even more time (and money, in the latter case). Probably you'll end up having to do the same thing with one or more hospitals or healthcare providers, playing go-between with them and insurance, and usually those places subject you to the same malicious-incompetence as the insurer does.
I'm genuinely curious -- is there any empirical evidence to show that's the most effective approach?

Because then the firmware can never auto-update, but needs to be manually and explicitly done -- flick the switch, apply the update, flick again.

And clearly a significant proportion of people (probably a very large majority if we're being honest) will simply never update firmware.

So which is the bigger threat: unpatched firmware, or firmware auto-update vulnerabilities?

The answer doesn't seem intuitively obvious at all to me. But there must be stats available -- frequencies and severities of vulnerability categories, and how often people update firmware on non-auto-updating devices. So it doesn't seem terribly hard to compute an answer?
Thank!! That is a really important fact I missed reading the article.
As I understand desalination, a huge bottleneck besides cost is what to do with the brine. Why can't they build a gigantic pool/lake out in the desert and pump the brine there and let it dry into salt and other minerals. A 10 square mile pit/pool with a clay or other barrier to prevent it from sinking into the aquifers would allow for a massive amount of brine to be safely contained in one place wouldn't it?
Single-Mother Self-Taught Developer Raises Concern over Apple Remote-Work Policy
Yeah! I've uh, ... never copied a bit of code into my repo verbatim, right?

yeah right.
I wish.

(Not saying every dev does this)
Previous conversations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114959

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303
Assange has also stated that he had documents related to the Trump campaign that he wouldn't publish because they were no "more controversial... than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day"[1]. Meanwhile they posted thousands of totally mundane emails from Democrats that included things like office lunch orders and automatic out of office replies that were not controversial and served no public good. Wikileaks clearly had a different standard for publishing documents that hurt Democrats and documents that hurt Republicans.

[1] - https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/2934...
> “If people were regularly getting fucked like that the system wouldn't have the entrenched support it does from the "but I want to keep my insurance" camp”

I don’t see how that follows.

The “I’ve got mine” camp doesn’t care that it happens to those other people, and also doesn’t understand that it could happen to them in their old age (or simply after bad luck) because they’ve only made short visits into the system.
Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48
I think you may be putting words in my mouth and getting pretty worked up, because I didn't say what you are implying. I am just stating(for the third time now) that Spain was at the cutting edge in 15th century warfare. Regarding your last paragraph, which is on some other tangent, but since you brought it up, it is known that the Aztecs and Mexica had a very different view on the purpose of warfare.
Indeed, and that doesn't change my point (though I'm not accusing you of saying that it should). Do we believe accuracy in such accounting - at least in Australia - is error-proof to at least one in a million? Could it be 10x better or worse? 100x? Where's the line? I actually have no idea where you would even begin to work out the accuracy of such a number. For aspirin too, for that matter.
I am aware that EOL care is a large part of the costs of our system. However, one thing I have not heard is any definitive evidence that that is materially different in the US vs. e.g. Canada or the UK.

This study suggests that your interpretation is not correct: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0174 Mean end of life spending is only marginally higher in the U.S. than in other countries.
You don't need your neighbours approval to be pro-active about repairs.
Except that the majority of the unicorns are sick, and the majority of the lollipops have been licked by someone else. And when people point out that while we don't have them on every corner for free, at least what we do have isn't like that, they're ignored or called heartless.
I don’t see a link to their Github page (did see one for Instagram !). Am I missing it ? Thanks
"Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs"

As are local governments, county governments, and state governments unless they get a big grant from the level of government above them. Even federal infrastructure is in disrepair.

My locality had to redo the main street and the water and sewer lines under it. We had to get a grant from the state and they also put a 40% surcharge on our water bills to pay for it.
Ah, that's what I was looking for. Just a suggestion but maybe there should be a direct link to the release notice from the blog post?
Can you please not fulminate on HN? The site guidelines ask you not to, and your comments unfortunately have a lot of this.

HN is supposed to be for curious conversation. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
> This was mainly due to improvements in childhood nutrition, healthcare, and education in the post war period.

Even controlling for these improvements, the Flynn Effect is still happening. The cause of the Flynn Effect is as-yet unknown, but it is not due to these improvements.

There's speculation that it's due to society increasingly being an environment that develops abstract thinking, which is the kind of thinking that is tested in IQ tests. So it's not that people are organically developing a higher IQ, but that people are just getting better at IQ tests
I guess I was speaking to all of the guesses that people have so far as to what any long-term effects may be... I haven't heard anything that seems plausible that is worse than the organ failure that the disease itself can produce. There's a lot of Cronenberg style ideas about what could potentially happen across generations but I think all of that comes from just a complete misunderstanding of what mRNA is. But I haven't heard any long-term side effects of the vaccine that seem plausible so far.
Wow, it sounds like you've been through a lot. I hope things get better for you somehow.
If the mob boss holds leverage over the enforcer (first a debt with threat of violence, and later evidence of the enforcer's crimes) then the enforcer might not be such a bad person. This is a big reason that lower level criminals are offered witness protection in exchange for information
Either that or Facebook is biased, and it is completely reasonable to mock them.