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> The EU could've had an internal border within it's own market, but that wasn't an option because they didn't want Ireland to be cut off.

That's not an EU decision as you're suggesting there.

Ireland isn't some vassal state. It's an equal partner.

Ireland itself doesn't want to cut Ireland off from the EU.

It's not for the EU to decide something like that. It's an Ireland decision, and in fact the power to do so resides with Ireland.

If Ireland had wanted to align with the UK and separate from the EU, they could have, and they still have the power to do so. Of course they don't want to, why would they. They've benefited enormously from EU membership, and one of those benefits now is that the EU often protects the interests of Ireland - as determined by Ireland - in negotiations with the UK.

It is important to remember that the EU is not actually a top down system, even though it can seem that way. Any member country is free to leave simply by giving notice, and cease to partake of the benefits of membership. The EU's laws are clear on this.
>Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago?

I suppose if you consider 1898 a few years ago.
Really?

That means some of these heists are staged!
Also, the term "curve" is literally a statistical bell curve that teachers would fit the students' grade distribution to.

Even if teachers use a different method, the term has stuck as a synonym for "grade adjustment".

I only had a few actually do this, usually it's just a fixed amount bump given to everyone's grade.

Only 2 or 3 times did I have a teacher curve grades down.
Wow, that’s incredible. Since it uses electricity for it’s energy input, this could be readily adapted for use in remote areas powered by solar plus battery. Even in Western nations this is a boon to treat well water sources instead of shock chlorination.

This combined with GAC filtration can produce very clean water anywhere you can get sunlight.
>I don’t agree with the need for physical violence. Historically, we have had decent regulatory protections for customers.

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

Regulatory protections certainly didn't arise from the void. If you trace them back the New Deal agencies, then you have to consider the widespread violence that forced their creation.
We should consider another alternative - elite overproduction correlated with very wealthy societies, and very wealthy societies revert to the mean. So overproduction of elites correlates to decline, and correlation is not causation.

And attaching my pet theory - China has transformed their society, radically for the better, in 1 generation. As far as I can tell the American press has taken no interest whatsoever in seriously figuring out what happened beyond very surface level analysis. Are the policies that worked in Asia even serious contenders for implementation in America?
What Can Coerce, and Where, in Rust
There's no need to use blockchain technology for stock trading. The current centralized clearinghouse system works fine and is highly scalable. It also allows for transactions to be unwound in the case of mistakes or system failures. No one cares if a handful of retail investors lost money on foolish GameStop trades.
Anytime you read things like 100,000,000 times more effective - you should be asking, what was the numerator or denominator in this. Or are they just describing some tiny part of the system.

For example, normally you need to filter, do settling for sediment etc - how did they solve all this?

Given the orders of magnitude involved here a 5 MGD plant could produce 500 trillion gallons per day of "commercial approach" water cleaning. The water handling issues alone in doing 500 trillion GPD seem large. Am I missing something?
The different between a lawyer and an engineer is that one creates new means of production which grow the pie, and the other procures pieces of pie.
Time to find a way to move crypto to proof of desalination.
Man Is there a product that does this that is not Apple? I really want this but I will never buy into Apples software.
I just hope the Reactive Oxygen Species that are 10M times more lethal to bacteria aren’t equally more lethal to humans. Also, if this requires electrolysis-level power, it might still not be worth it in most cases.
How much gold and palladium are required? Those are massively expensive catalysts and it feels borderline disingenuous to talk about how this will bring clean drinking water to the masses without so much as mentioning cost.
Bitcoin is the world's least efficient blockchain, so how is it the largest? I suspect people flock to the number-go-uppest blockchain.
I'm still kind of surprised that software engineers don't have the same certification process as structural engineers, civil engineers, etc. You have to work as a newbie for a couple years, then get a few professional engineers to vouch for you, then pass an exam, then you get your stamp.

Sure, you can get certified by Amazon or Google or Microsoft in their own proprietary tech stack, and you can get a degree from an accredited university, but there's no formal body of software engineers who've outlined a process by which you can earn your engineering stamp.
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Looks like a phased array [0], which is probably a smart idea with a dish like that. Instead of using a parabolic reflector with a receiver at the focus (like in a normal satellite dish) they use an array of a ton of tiny receivers (each of those tiny ICs would be a driver for a small, on-PCB antenna). Phased arrays (essentially algorithmically delaying the individual radio signals from/to each driver on the scale of fractions of a period of the carrier frequency) let you do really precise beamforming and aiming, but take a lot of processing power and a lot of antennae to be efficient so weren't practical until recently.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
Agreed. These articles are becoming a formulaic bad trope.

1. Grab some classic American media.

2. Look at it through a perverted lens it wasn't meant to address.

3. Decry this lack of coverage as some evil ploy to suppress an outgroup.

Seven habits is a great book that anyone would be better for having read.
"Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork."

Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.
Biden to Sign Executive Order Granting Farmers Right to Repair Protections
There's a reason they got sanctioned, though, right? Broadly, attempting to develop nuclear warheads in unstable regions. So yeah, I'm ok with sanctioned people not trading TSLA to pressure the regime. Frankly, I can't think of a reason why that would be ok.
Equity futures (e.g. perpetuals) exist in forms beyond the definition you've mentioned.

example

https://ftx.com/trade/FB/USD
Sorry but please read the politico article posted a dozen times in this discussion. It is less agenda driven and wuotd clearly spells out this is just a law to allow providers to do it, not an obligation. In fact that provision existed before but was running out, thus this temporary law.

As regards the brexit comment, you are right my writing was unnecessarily harsh but you missed the main point:

> By virtue of the eu legal process this law only exists because Italy voted in favour of it, like all other EU countries.

The history of much EU bashing is that national governments vote YES in Brussels then turn around and say nationally 'really sorry we are obliged to implement this EU law' -- the very law they could have vetoed if they had wanted to. This is one of the basics of EU lawmaking which the previous commenter clearly was ignorant of.
The thing will also be a weapon of mass destruction of plannet cracking potential, one "parking accident" away from making planets uninhabitable.

On the other hand a civilisation producing such things should hopefully be technically immortal with lots of distributed backups for each individual potentially affected by such accidents & resources to fix up any affected infrastructure. So still, totally worth it, go fo it! :-)

(Less advanced neighbors might still be a bit on the edge, so please be considerate.)
It's a phased array, it uses those many little chips to do "beam steering". Check out this video by The Signal Path (a Bell Labs expert!) doing a teardown and explaning parts of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MfM8EFkGg
Or, you know, we could champion legislation that would prevent these banking institutions from arbitrarily seizing your money.
I too hate the coloured plots but I can tell you as a Stress & Structures engineer who works with ANSYS regularly, it does help when assessing material limits and strain energies. This is especially true when you're working with models where temperature is time dependent.

A great article, one to bookmark for sure.
Well, Slackware has all of them :p.
The Post-Pandemic Hybrid Office Should Be Built for the Remote Workforce
git uses them for local clones.
I mostly use it on mobile, I don't know if I could use it if they kill third-party apps.
I guess electrolysis of hydrogen from water isn't really a very efficient process so would therefore need a lot of energy.

It's the same reason that we're not all driving around in hydrogen powered cars.
What makes you say that? Mass media, especially English speaking mass media, have been EU polyannas since its inception. It's bad for their status quo.
What if you could somehow rate limit it? e.g. you can access N remote offices per day, but not all of them. Like the time lock on a safe, to prevent these pervasive smash and grabs.
Seatbelts are a pretty thoroughly disingenuous argument here. No one is going to die because a company making a DAW doesn't know how many people are using what versions.

So far no one in the many replies to my post have given even a single reason why the world is substantially better with data collection on versions. The argument is either this kind of attempt to substitute an Obvious Good Thing and then not explain how this thing is like that, or that "it's just a harmless bit of data collection, as a treat."

I think data collection should probably be held to a higher standard than that. Come up with why it makes my life better first, then pitch me on it. Otherwise you're just pissing in cornflakes and calling it breakfast.
The amount of electricity required wasn't mentioned, so while I'm hopeful that you're right I'm worried that the energy requirements will be prohibitive to adoption in many areas.
>Whereas if you write a check on your account, pass it to someone else, who passes it to their bank, who presents it to your bank, your bank wantonly dishonoring the check would result in a much larger fallout.

I doubt that the law would be on your side if the bank called and told you that your account was closed, and you continued writing checks. At best that would prevent situations mentioned in the article where your account was frozen without your notice, but you'll still be out $10k while that's being resolved.
> But Uighurs are being oppressed due to religion, it’s just the generic religious oppression that China applies to everyone.

Reporting claims that (1) the Uyghurs are suffering under much more oppression than other Chinese groups, such as live-in minders and a legal ban on owning kitchen knives; and (2) this is because of their religion.

These two claims cannot both be true. Islam is one of the traditional religions of China, and it benefits from legal and social recognition not given to e.g. Christianity. You are free to make the argument that Western reporters are hallucinating or lying about what is happening to the Uyghurs. Or to make the argument that reports of the Uyghurs' oppression are accurate. But you can't make the argument that the reported oppression is due to religion, or that it's just another example of the same oppression that other groups experience.

If you asked the Chinese, they'd tell you that Uyghur oppression comes from the Chinese not wanting to have their schools bombed.
Don't care or don't perceive the threat clearly?
That's not what "elite overproduction" theory refers to. "Elites" means people with PhDs who can't get academic jobs.
This sounds very cool.

Though I wish this article addressed some of the questions I had around commercialization, namely the cost of the gold + palladium, the expected lifecycle, and the expected maintenance routine (e.g. do they have to be regularly removed and cleaned?).

The article makes great arguments for why this should work (i.e. hydrogen peroxide is already being used, this just short-circuits how we get a known effective cleaning agent, reducing/removing logistics inefficiencies). So a lot of the question is: Is this cheaper/less hassle than buying stabilized hydrogen peroxide commercially?

A lot of these fantastic advances often end up in the black hole, wherein they work as advertised, but the financials/logistics never line up and therefore nobody uses them in anger.
AFAIK The number of new planned towns in the US post 1950 is approximately 0. The closest equivalent is a "Master Planned Community," which is a large-scale suburban development that might include a mix of land uses. Those are relatively common, but they're build as attachments to a larger city, not as new cities.
>If a shopkeeper wrongs you, you can go yell at the shopkeeper

So, go buy your appliances from a local store, not Amazon or Lowe's or Home Depot. Do you, or do you not do that? Because you can totally do that.
I thought this vulnerability had already been reported to Kaseya (privately), and they were working on it. Does that still qualify as a zero-day?
There's a lot involved in market dynamics - BTC or otherwise :)
(which seems just a really silly limitation)

It's the most straightforward way to ensure the directory structure remains a directed acyclic graph.
Oh wow. I always just assumed they were throwing these at regular intervals during the day! You’re saying they’re actually giving you these based on your pulse or smthg?
Is it? Seems like it's eating the sunset of services that allow you to scale containers. But I don't see it eating any of the big services that cloud providers like aws care about. Like managed databases, queuing services (sqs), messaging services (ses), etc.
It's not new so that's how they are getting caught up. It's more like a new major version of Lumberyard which itself was a fork of Crytek, which was able to ship AAA games (as painful as it was to do).

I know the devs say it's a major rewrite but... come on. You and I have both seen that code monstrosity before.
That's exactly the point of the comment above - own a house you need to be an 'elite'. So people trying to become 'elite' is really just people trying to own a house and get a tiny bit of stability.
Andrew Price is a really nice guy. I love his blog.
The clause is there because of the data collection, not independent of it. As people have been so quick to point out: "you will find this clause in everything that collects data as standard boilerplate."

If it weren't collecting version info what possible reason could it have to have a clause in the EULA about giving info to the police? You have to be phoning home for that to even mean anything.
Fungi too!
Counterpoint: China does modern business just fine.
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It's gone because it worked so poorly for society.

Most obvious consequence: the physically-strong can get more justice than the weak.

Which leads inevitably to: the physically-strong make the rules. And social regulation has failed.
Only 1500? Phew.

Please tell me that my most onerous and security conscious customers weathered this just fine. You know, the folks that lock down ports by jack number, MAC address, and user. The folks that MiTM everything and instantly cauterize a port if the traffic becomes suspect. Please tell me they made it through this OK and that all the security theater was for something.
When did personal computers die? Most desktops and laptops are fairly open and although android phones are not as open you can build software on your laptop/desktop for usage on your phone.

You could also use something like pinephone or librem. You wont have access to a lot of android tech but the most important functionality. A web browser, sending sms, email, making calls all work.
This aligns with the experience I and my parents had growing up in the US. My grandparents worked in factories and did relatively well for themselves, living in the same town in Connecticut that their grandparents worked in as farmers 2 generations prior. They had the notion that factory life wasn't wear the future was and pushed my parents to go to college in the 70s.

By the time I was growing up in the 90s and 00s just 2 towns over the very notion of factory work as a viable career had vanished. Everyone was prepped to live in a 2-tier system of college goers and those who weren't heading to college.

Flash forward to now and it turns out that it was only certain types of college that paid off and everyone else went into unstable service jobs or unstable non-technical disciplines.

If we're building a meritocracy that feels like a lottery people are going to be angry. If it works like a lottery, then the people with the most tickets are going to win every time.
I might be too influenced with Brazil I watched recently, but the monopoly on necessary violence is not without restrictions ( which is why there is an outcry when the outer bands are pushed too far ). Granted, the fact is that the bands are now hidden from public view only to resurface when a whistleblower lets the population know. Still, basic principle remains. There are limits to violence goverment can legitimately engage in.
It also corresponded with massive illegal and legal immigration entering the labor force of over 50 million individuals (unions were always against immigration for the labor supply competition reason). In addition, there was not a commensurate increase in housing stock in many urban centers and areas leading to more of your income swallowed by rich landlords.
The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes
I've been on the platform since March, I've done five cofounder trials, and I can say I've met some really interesting and talented folks through it.

The challenges I've seen have mostly to do with the motivations of the cofounders and the process that everyone (including myself) tends to follow in the beginning.

I wrote about my experiences here: https://johnchildseddy.medium.com/why-a-day-zero-start-is-im...
Maybe it's the computing word I live in, but I've never seen a laptop with a mute button for the built in mic. That's what I'd like to see!
The article was very vague… I’ll wait for the paper to come out!
Whats convoluted about GDPR?
How is it misdirection? The comment said maybe the brexiteers were right, so why would leaving for the purpose of privacy benefit when UK's own laws go beyond the EU? The answer isn't brexit it's changing your own laws in that case.
How did you track your time? I kind of love this idea but time tracking is a pain in the ass. Seems like maybe you could use "day" or "half day" granularity?
Bold and italic at the same time? What is the devils work?
My house is well insulated, I keep the blinds on sun-facing windows closed during the day; I have 12' ceiling in my living room and I'm smart enough to not run the dishwasher or clothes dryer during the day. The refrigerator I can't do anything about. However, I'm not crazy enough to think I can live without A/C in a Minnesota summer.
I edited it 5 seconds after posting it. You posted 20 minutes after I posted it.
Sort of related: The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal https://youtu.be/pUa9x1-SMLo
Interesting, I didn't know this. Thanks!
Late to this, but to be sure: I have learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly have to be alone. If we learn and make good choices, things can and will be very good, better than now. Honesty and the Golden Rule are important, as is sincere prayer to God (who knows you and actually does care, and has a plan).

Your worth definitely does not depend on comparisons with what seems popular. There are permanent truths one can grasp and keep, for peace & stability amid the hard times that we all can have; even joy.

Some other ideas (not all are about dating) at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27637759 and my profile fwiw.

All real best wishes.
Waxing lyrical: taking ear wax seriously
The specific measure appears to be in CFU/mL of E. Coli in their test sample before and after. As you suspected, this does not include filtering or settling, just clearing out bacterial contamination.

I haven't read the paper yet (paywall)- just looked at their supplementary data.

The increased effectiveness appears (guessing here a bit) to be in terms of bacteria load reduction given similar concentration of bacteriacidal agents in same volume of liquid.
Yes, some groups leverage that complexity for their own benefit. Absolutely true. See also: every complex system ever.

But some systems are complex because they're complicated. And the net of, say, regulated banking, is socially beneficial.

So punish the scummy behavior with the avid prosecution of just laws, obviously.
> The frequency with which I use my mouse to click buttons vs. keyboard shortcuts to invoke functionality in a program is not personal information

It absolutely can be uniquely tied to you. Whether or not it is personal information doesn't matter: it is still spyware.

> This is not private information.

Yes it is. What I do on my own computer is absolutely private information.

> Tell me how the Audacity developers knowing that I press a sequence of three buttons in a row enables them to determine that I'm single, or how tall I am, or that I like Polish TV dramas, or literally any other personal information?

It's not just three buttons in a row. It's every button over the lifetime of the installation. It's uniquely what buttons you press, where, how long you might hold the mouse button down, what songs you listen to, in what order, did you double-click them or drag them to a playlist or go through a menu; do you set a playlist and forget it or do you interact with the playlist often?

Just because you are unable to see how to do it doesn't mean that it can't be done.
Why is the default “we’re going to collect data from you.”? Opt-in or no-go. Don’t assume I’m ok with it.
> This is an example of survivorship bias. How many ambitious game concepts have collapsed under performance/architecture issues that lead to productivity-killing refactoring? Impossible to say, but no doubt many.

I'm reminded a bit of Minecraft, whose infinite and completely mutable voxel world was really novel at the time -- and which was (and maybe still is) the source of a lot of performance woes.
I bet this is due to lobbying from coinbase investors. for coinbase to not flunk, they need to get rid of binance and lobby for more crypto regulations. I guess coinbase wants to get more EU customers. binance was already all but banned in the US I think