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Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software
Sorry for not replying. I don't feel comfortable replying to comments that begin with turns of phrase like "are you aware", as in your comment or "do you realise" etc. I find this style of conversation coercive and adversarial and it puts my back up, and I don't want to have internet conversations where I'm made to feel that way.
Well, it's either requiring rent to be paid throughout the entire lease term or not allowing leases to be randomly transferred to unqualified tenants. Does it really matter at that point which one GP meant?
Anything can cause damage if it is intense enough (intensity is a separate quantity from photon energy). You do not want to put your hand into a microwave oven. But a cellphone's level of radiant intensity is absolutely harmless.
I'm not sure about the specifics, but the sun is a blackbody radiator. As visible light is orders of magnitude higher frequency than regular radio waves (say, AWS which uses 1.9/2GHz), the amount of radio-level RF emitted by the sun isn't as high as you'd think. Also, if it did emit high enough levels of RF, we wouldn't be able to use any radios here in earth because the SNR could never be high enough.
> a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be

Classic.

> What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government.

-- Noam Chomsky

> The neoliberal era of the last generation is dedicated, in principle, to destroying the only means we have to defend ourselves from destruction. It's not called that, what it's called is shifting decision-making from public institutions, which at least in principle are under public influence, to private institutions which are immune from public control, in principle. That's called "shifting to the market", it's under the rhetoric of freedom, but it just means servitude. It means servitude to unaccountable private institutions.

-- Noam Chomsky

The (not really) free market already decided that the rich should get richer that survival of the human species doesn't even compute as an agenda item. How inspiring, how wise.

And of course, people organizing themselves via government is just "a few bureacrats", but you asking if you're "the only one" to believe what you believe, or a company "deciding the strategy it prefers", that's different.
I lived in DC and NOVA for 8+ years (including at UDRs Shirlington property) and never felt I needed a broker when apartment hunting.

Now that was about 5 years ago, so the market might have changed.
I like the straightforward explanation this site provides. That said, I tend to use http://example.com to trigger captive portals because it's an IANA reserved domain [1] that other people can't register.

This gives me confidence to browse to it without fear that the domain could lapse in the future and get taken over (e.g. in a watering hole attack).

[1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
The assumption that software can solve this problem is simply wrong. It's the regulation change that needs to happen if you don't want that renter pay the broker "services".

For example, a new law in Germany to apply the "who hires pays" principle for brokers in the renting market basically made the renting "broker fee free" for renters. Previously, the landlords would hire a broker that needed to be paid by the renter. Why not, it doesn't cost them anything, and at least they don't need to have a contact with the potential renters. Now, that they have to pay for the brokers service themselves, it's suddenly not that valuable to them.
Show HN: I created 500 dev questions and launched a quiz platform
We had it in the era of America's greatest relative growth (by some measures at least) in the 1950's-60's,they were called beatnik's. The conversation around them at the time tightly mirrors that about tangping today.

I've been saying for a while now that China is undergoing a Mccarthy era politically, and that their "summer of love" is less than two decades away, and they'll be radically tranformed by it.

Thanks for the metaphor with the Stirling engine, hasn't heard of that before. Interestingly I've always considered capitalism to only work in a system without scarcity of resources (land, minerals, ect.) as it's often the most efficient way to extract those resources and convert them into more useful products (by humans subjective standards). It's when raw resources are limited that the paradigm for endless extraction breaks down, as there's nothing more to extract, and quality of life starts diminishing as we extract beyond replacement level of natural resources.

But I think your point is about scare processed resources being the motivator for capitalism, and that once the gradient diminishes and the top is warmed enough, and the heat differential with the bottom is less, certain members will opt out of further extraction. This is why inadvertently a lot of conservstive lawmakers advocate reducing entitlements, to artificially "cool" the top plate, to keep the engine turning, even if they don't know for what purpose.

Still, communism even in it's converted versions has not worked (I'm sure you don't seriously consider China's economic system one that is concerned with equal distribution of wealth among the working class right?) and has brought many horrors to those living in states that claim to be using its doctrine, and those failures must be accepted and addressed before better alternative approaches can be considered.
Crypto doesn't exist in a physical location.

You can prove somebody has access to a registry on a blockchain, you cant prove nobody else does. This has been one of the hurdles for custodial regulations to adapt to. South Africa has the entire concept wrong though.
Relevant quote:

> Our main takeaway from the current review is that approximately 1,000 hours of lifetime cellphone use, or about 17 minutes per day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60% increase in brain cancer.
The concern isn't the power now, after people point out that your cell phone is emitting less power than a single christmas tree light. Power absolutely was the concern, it was beaming energy right into your brain! Boiling your precious fluids! But power was shot down, so now it's not the power, it's the modulation!

Except the Sun generates a tremendous mish-mash of modulated EM radiation, so "modulation" is also a nonsense argument.

What's next for the Gish gallop crowd?
In training on publicly accessible repositories, GitHub did something anybody could have done. If they also used private repositories, though, I would see that as abusing their position.
Thank you for the feedback about the web site. You are right, we will update our web site and put pricing information when it will be ready. Currently the application is in beta and free for use. Furthermore first 100 users provided feedback to the application will get a released version for free. Pricing will be easily affordable – about the price of a coffee for individuals or a client lunch for business users. You can find similar text on the web site.

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Of course no messages are passed to the server. Scailer connects to a IMAP server (gmail, office365) using a secure channel and stores message cache in local encrypted database. It allows Scailer to work with old messages in offline mode as well as support other features like fast searching, message threading and others which improve Scailer's user experience, and at same time increase the application security. Due to strong encryption nobody will be able to read your data on your hard drive, for example if you lost it.
Yes, types are usually represented by a DAG with sharing. OCaml does so, for example, and I assume ghc does something similar.

So, while id id has type ('a -> 'a) -> ('a -> 'a), this is stored in memory by a pointer structure that amounts to let 'b = ('a -> 'a) in ('b -> 'b). The type of id id id would become let 'b = ('a -> 'a) in let 'c = ('b -> 'b) in ('c -> 'c). This grows linearly. If one were to write out the types without sharing then their size would grow exponentially.
Aight, this is some next-level stuff.

Hell, I'd even call it badass. The FBI created a tech startup (even with the .io domain!) and sold devices with a custom Android distribution.

It's funny because you can search for the XDA-Developers thread mentioned in the article, they were pretty shocked to find a phone with modded software and a locked bootloader.
It's the same story with PDAs, apps, and the web, just way shorter.
Show HN: A link preview generator for your notes app
I created this small tool that I wanted to share with you

What's its purpose?
I take all my notes with good ol' plain text markdown files so I can store them locally and not be reliant on some service.
(The "zettelkasten" note taking approach in combination with "The Archive" is really great!)

Plain text is great, but especially for things to watch/play/read those website previews that you get in Telegram/Slack/Notion are really good to remember what the link was about.

So what the "Link Preview Generator" does, is it generates such previews but as downloadable PNGs so you can do whatever you want with them – in my case put them in my notes app.

It's probably a pretty niche/obscure problem that I faced but I guess if I have the problem, somebody else might too!

Anyway thanks for reading.
Feedback is welcome!
No they are not. Patents are incentives. You can weigh the benefits or lack thereof and chooses to opt-in or opt-out. Regulations are a government-created burden. You can't opt out of a regulation.
>5G is actually harmful to your health

How so?
what's with the Moskowitz spam lately?

he's a known crank; he's been on this for years; you'd think he'd see a reasonable effect size by now!
> The situation in the first week of Feb was very tense.

Wasn't it partly due to the genocide misinformation? One protestor died in a tractor accident and Twitter did little to curb the misinformation that he was shot by police.
>As for "baseless investment", you might want to read up on hard money properties.

How does hard money ensure that a decay in real investments does not erode the real value of the currency in the long run? It doesn't. You're relying on the rest of the world to make those real investments to maintain the real value of your currency. Having a currency be a store of value just shifts the medium of exchange function to a different currency. The idea that you make a profit off of making it harder to do real investments is absurd.

It's equivalent to letting a plot of land sit idle for 20 years while the population grows and then expect the future generation to work hard for it even though you did nothing to improve the value of the land, nor did you help people get higher paying jobs so they can afford your expensive land.
The work required for moving the RTG up a slight hill might just negate the energy you gain from it. An RTG is not really meant to move itself very fast. Consider the Mars rovers, they move extremely slow but benefit from the stable, long term power supply.
You're not missing anything. We already did a huge natural experiment with the analog phones of the 1980s. They put out a full watt of power, and headsets weren't so common so it was going straight into peoples brains. Then we switched to digital, which use 88% less power, at peak. There was no mass drop in brain cancer.
Sure it is, you brain is not software though
I’ve always been amused by the mobile phone tower complaints, as they always seem to ignore the inverse square law.

If there’s a tower in your neighborhood the. Your kid’s phone will emit less power than it would to reach a farther away tower.
It is worth noting that the IT mister resigned[1] just a day back in a massive cabinet reshuffling (if you could call that).

Twitter attracted the ruling government's wrath when it didn't censor/takedown Tweets supporting farmers' protests and those critical of government's handling of COVID's 2nd wave.

[1] https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/breaking-ravi-shankar...
Being non-ionizing is definitely a perk of regular radio, but it doesn't necessarily mean it can't create cell damage.
They can't compel a bank outside their jurisdiction. If your crypto is in Coinbase and you convert it to USD and then send it in to South Africa when you need to convert to the local currency & buy something, it seems like you'll be okay.

I suppose the issue will be getting you paycheck $$ from South Africa into Coinbase (or wherever)
It appears some health authorities are in agreement?

> In 2001, based upon the biologic and human epidemiologic research, low-frequency fields were classified as “possibly carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization. In 2011, the IARC classified radiofrequency radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” based upon studies of cellphone radiation and brain tumor risk in humans. Currently, we have considerably more evidence that would warrant a stronger classification.

> Most recently, on March 1, 2021, a report was released by the former director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which concluded that there is a “high probability” that radiofrequency radiation emitted by cellphones causes gliomas and acoustic neuromas, two types of brain tumors.

And why this?

> Our government, however, stopped funding research on the health effects of radiofrequency radiation in the 1990s
>"top" is arbitrary"

Sure, but at the end of the day you've got to pick a frame of reference and people have settled on North being the 'top'. You can draw a map that ignores this convention and still have it be valid but you're going to confuse a lot of people.

For what it's worth there's more landmass and population in the Northern Hemisphere so make of that what you will.
GitHub used code that wasn't under any license at all, just publicly visible. Their claim is not that the license allows what they're doing, but that they do not need a license.
How does Chainalysis claim to know the intent behind all of the crypto transactions they studied?
Poor IRS, if only it had some good government contacts, it could ask them to improve the law and close those loopholes. Oh well.
1) People love drama
2) People say stuff they don't really mean just to perpetuate a drama in their otherwise predictable lives
3) Social media is a cancer on society
4) Statistics are sometimes nonsense
I would value knowing how to flag the _lack_ of usage of the variable within the catch body; I had this problem while trying to write a semgrep rule for Java, but if I were working with python, it'd make me just as mad

I'll show the Java version first, because it's more obvious, then the equivalent in Python to stay moderately on-topic

try {
((String)null).length();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("I swallow errors for fun!");
}

try:
dict()["kaboom"]
except KeyError as ke:
logger.error("it did not work")

In the python version, I would accept the presence of `logger.exception` but my question in both code snippets is how to detect that nothing touches the exception variable within the catch block
Near the beginning the article states:

> After reading many animal toxicology studies that found that this radiation could increase oxidative stress — free radicals, stress proteins and DNA damage

Not knowing enough about chemistry, I could imagine the radiation being able to affect some of the weaker bonds in certain chemicals, breaking them, and creating more energetic new compounds. This could be damaging to among other things, DNA.

I know the photo-voltaic effect means there is a certain threshold frequency needed to be able to affect such bonds. I have no idea whether there are any chemical bonds that can be affected by say 5.8Ghz radiation. (Highest frequency non 5G phones should be emitting)
Simple JavaScript Calculator Tutorial for Beginners
Thank you for the opinion. Scailer has unique design that improves user’s experience in email. We decided that Scailer should look same on both platforms.

Regarding performance of the application on the old Mac, if you try it on and give us feedback, it will be really appreciated.
We tested it on really slow PC and it works normally.

Regarding the keychain. Keychain is aimed to store an encrypted data. MacOS prevents other applications from accessing keychain data of other applications. Scailer uses own isolated keychain to store encryption keys to protects user’s data from 3d-party access. Scailer stores database encryption key in user’s keychain and license encryption key in system keychain. When Scailer adds an encryption certificate in system keychain, MacOS asks user to allow Scailer to do that. It will not allow Scailer to read keychain data of other applications, system or user. MacOS only allows the particular application to read keychain data created by that particular application. Using system keychain allows all users of the same Mac to use the same Scailer license.
>- Why can Trump write off a $70k haircut but I can't write off a $35 haircut?

Probably claims it as a necessary expense for being on TV.

>Why can my employer buy my laptop, and I can use it in my off time for video games but if I buy a laptop, even to help with say an LLC I might own, I can only write off the 'portion' used for work?

Stuff provided to employees for personal use is supposed to be taxed as a benefit. It's just likely that this hasn't been investigated by the IRS.

> - Why can my employer buy us lunch but if I work on my own I can't write off a meal except under specific circumstances?

That one's a can of worms and I know the rules have changed a number of times on this. You might consider inviting potential client to lunch. Then he or she might invite you next time as a potential vendor to lunch.

Similarly: company retreats, teambuilding exercises, and gifts to clients. Consult your tax professional.
the rule of thumb for mammals is Ne is 30% of census size.

i think this is probably an overestimate tbh (assumes poisson distribution of offspring).
> Is this correct?

Yes. Otherwise a microwave oven would just sear stuff. Radio frequency penetrates meat. It doesn't do it well, because meat has high impedance, but it does penetrate.

Disclaimer: I don't believe cell phones are causing cancer; there just isn't enough power involved. It's all bunk.
I run it on my pihole with Dnscryptproxy.

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Local-DoH

It isn't too hard.
Oh hey! Author of the video here. I also tried NaNoGenMo in 2017 with my "Infinite Fight Scene" [1], a novel that is one long fight, utilizing an earlier version of the same system. I think I remember your entry (I'm a sucker for space opera). I thought it was great!

[1]: https://github.com/filiph/edgehead/raw/nanogenmo2017/output2...
Using the algorithm to eliminate leeching middlemen was one of the promises of the future.

Real estate in general is full of middlemen looking for a cut and providing little to no value. The whole industry is overdue for a shakeup.
It's non-ionising, thus unable to liberate electrons from their atoms. It can still do stuff like heat water up (though low-power signals have correspondingly low heating power) or communicate with electronics (e.g. firmware update your smartwatch to short the battery), though, so it's not unconditionally safe.

I'm sceptical that low levels of non-ionising radiation can do damage, but it's not physically impossible. (I know of no biological mechanism by which it could cause harm, but I'm no biologist.)
Either this the biggest concentration of actual multi-millionaires in the history of a forum thread or they can pat themselves in their backs and laugh all the way to the bank since the hoi-polloi fiercely fight the ideological battle for them. I suppose from the misguided belief they will soon join the club.
> I am reacting to the increasing trend of renormalisation of the exception to make it the new norm(al).

So in essence you really are not paying attention to what I'm actually saying, you just have an axe to grind and are determined to grind it regardless of what I say.

If that's not the case, I'm very interested indeed to know how exactly you arrived at "everyone would need to carry an additional document" from "denoting your sex on general-purpose identification should be opt-in". To me it would seem patently obvious to anybody who is not jumping to argue that the only people who would need to carry additional papers are those who have chosen to (by deciding not to put their sex on their passports, driver's licenses or what have you).

I think it would be worth your while to interrogate why your kneejerk reaction to "it should be the individual's choice to disclose this information" is to translate it to "nobody should disclose this information".

> While what you or I think about those norms is up to us, it is decidedly not up to us to dictate our norms to others.

First of all I guarantee that we are not from the same country nor do we share norms. Second of all, it's not the norm in Indonesia to (for example) recognise same-sex marriages, but I fail to see how this is an argument about those in such marriages owning documents that reflect their union (or making their own decisions about where they can take those documents to and what workarounds they might need where their validity is not recognised). And finally I frankly do not understand what your point is with the police officer. What exactly happens to an unconscious woman in a street in Indonesia found by a police officer with an X in her passport as opposed to an F (or with no passport at all, which is by far the most likely option)?