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Or just abolish the security theater that is the boarding search. The TSA misses the majority of weapons at their screening points, it is obvious to everyone that ~nobody permitted boarding wants to hijack planes, or planes would be hijacked all the time, and they aren't.

The whole thing is a gigantic waste of time. Europe lets you keep your shoes on, in the US you have to get fingerprinted for Precheck to get to leave on your shoes and not get jammed into the naked scanner.
One thing to always keep in mind is how much money there is supporting certain viewpoints. It’s not that people are combining up with things at random but that they’re hearing stuff recirculated from the same sources. Anything to do with fuel economy or power sources gets the double whammy from people who are hesitant about change or self-identify with a technology (think about the car enthusiasts who said EVs would never be fun before Teslas started smoking them), as well as a very well funded media network serving both political ends and the interests of a very rich industry. That keeps ideas circulating and the more people hear it, the more they might start to think there’s something to it.

One interesting example of how weird this can get was in the mid-2000s when various places started circulating hit pieces on Rachel Carson claiming that banning DDT had killed millions of people by letting malaria spread. This was scientifically nonsense (resistance evolves rapidly & was a major problem by the late 1950s) but it circulated enough to get mainstream coverage, especially as various right-wing outlets (Reason, Cato, CEI, Fox, etc.) started pushing it as justification for ignoring climate change. For a period, a fair number of people felt it reasonable to ask whether it might in fact have been better to allow unrestricted DDT use even though they had none of the political or financial ties motivating the original spreaders, simply because it was successfully introduced as a topic people should have an opinion on.

The campaign traced back to tobacco company lobbyists who were trying to discredit the WHO in Africa so their anti-smoking campaigns would be less effective:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517020543/http://www.prospe...
I'd say it's even more of a dark pattern than that. They didn't encourage me to "upload my contact list" but rather "give access to my contacts" (or something like that) Perhaps the difference is trivial in how it's coded yet even though I've removed their access to my contacts, they still have my contacts. I think they should have to delete them whenever I remove their access, or not even upload them in the first place but just read them when necessary.

Also, some apps seem to do this with photos, asking for access, does anyone know if these apps also upload all of one's photos once the user grants permission on iOS?
Unfortunately 5.800 is not yet on F-Droid. I am looking forward to it.
I mean hell, local could even just mean "same continent" or "within a X hundred km radius". The real key is that there's no reason for such excessive energy waste from transportation due to facilities being on the opposite side of the globe when it's easily producible locally.
There are different levels when it comes to surface level transport. London Heathrow is pretty far outside the city but the Heathrow Express train, while not cheap, gets you to the centre of London in 15 minutes.

The same is physically possible at JFK but it’s such a clusterfuck of disconnected authorities that it’ll never happen. Case in point: NYC’s LaGuardia is finally getting an AirTrain and it’ll head away from the city before you get on a train going in the right direction. Baffling.
I sizable portion already do
As much as I hate _Kelo vs. City of New London_, I can see the temptation in this case to invoke eminent domain and hand over those vacant properties to another private owner who will put them to good use.
Resist the preservation order? FOI the comms leading up to the preservation order?

They'd probably shrug both off, but I guess there's an outside chance you get a good judge who sees right through the BS and orders them to fess up.
Yeah, but I'm probably never flying on one of those. Almost all my flights are on narrow body planes.
> “We have really tried to walk that line of not wanting to invoke new measures that are going to have a significant effect ... unless it’s absolutely necessary,”

This isn't exactly an unusual stance, but I'm increasingly convinced it's a terribly ineffective way to handle a crisis.
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Internet figures suggest that industrial scale seawater desal costs $3-$4 per thousand gallons.

Tier 2 water rates in Marin are $9.70/1000gal. Sure seems that that that the rates could support it.
Which is funny, because the airport versions of most luxury stores are just way worse than the regular stores. Poorly attended to and somehow always manage to look cheap.
It bothered me and I couldn't come up with an answer myself. Thank you so much for taking your time! I have not seen those videos before, I'll definitely watch.
> When cities grew before airports and so the underground is already full of subways and infrastructure, it can be prohibitively expensive to build a new fast tunnel to downtown.

I would say London is a clear counter argument to this. There was no need for a new underground tunnel, the Heathrow Express uses existing train track, just prioritised in such a way that it gets to the centre of the city in 15 minutes.
> at least until male bullying graduates into violence

My experience is that it mostly starts there. Most of male "bullying" is establishing physical dominance. It's almost all intimidation, physical threats, pushing/shoving, fighting. The psychological, gossipy, demeaning sort of bullying is more from the females.
What do you mean? I want Google to remember my ↑likes and subscriptions, so they can give me recommendations that actually reflect my preferences. I just don't want them to track which videos I watch or search for.
Then we should repeal the majority of Dodd-Frank.
I was thinking about the signature issue as well. In flat space (i.e. Minkowski metric), this would imply a constant four-potential with an imaginary 0'th component, which I can not make sense of.
Ah, that comment again
I assume it's because people in cities are richer so they tend to consume more.
Sure not, but then it could be a door for corruption.
I think you could argue that it has broken down a bit with Delta, as the first dose provides very little protection there.
I thought we knew this already since Faraday.
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I’ve pointed out that my place and date of birth haven’t changed since the ID expired. The sarcasm is never appreciated, but it feels good.
A very informative article, and I found this part darkly amusing spoiler alert :

> Anderson had not reckoned with intellectual property regulation: the moment he had chosen to ape NetBlocks’s name, he had lost any chance to prevail in a challenge fought on those terms.

Maybe the real internet censorship was the intellectual property regulations we made along the way.
BRU does have an efficient "filling station" at security (I like that), though many other airports have similar setups.

The train connection from Zaventem to Brussels is also excellent, and they're doing a great job with COVID testing right now.
It sounds like you’re talking about Oculus Go, which isn’t the first oculus.
I always thought that plant behavior and invertebrate sentience are vastly understudied fields. You would think that they would provide key insights faster than studying rats or humans do.
It's gotten better in recent years. In most airports, I can find something decent like one of the premium burger places which I rather like in general or an outpost of a good local restaurant. But, yeah, numerically-speaking airports are dominated by well-known lowest common denominator national chains.
I think it is important to decouple two issues:

1) Is it hypocritical by definition? Yes or no.

2) Does it bother me? Yes or no.

I think it is incredibly juvenile to find their push for sustainable consumption domestically to be a problem. Or, alternatively, incredibly juvenile to consider their nation building and wealth building oil exploration to be more of a problem because they tried to stop consuming it themselves. The oil production won't stop whether they were consumers or not, since that is the constant and their domestic behavior is the variable, then why create an argument based on the presence of the variable?
Words are important and public opinion matters. And you need a lot more money than what it costs to bribe some politicians. E.g. back the companies that takes a stand against the worst violations.
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I'm not sure why you would want Neofetch on any embedded system or corporate machine though.
This is circular reasoning. These multi-year vacancies exist precisely because the present regime encourages it. One determines the appropriate vacancy rate and then tunes the regulatory framework to remove barriers to achieving that public purpose.

The most direct policy framework would be wielding the sledgehammer that is eminent domain. However, I think government should use the lightest touch possible to achieve the public purpose, so I’d prefer setting the rules in a way that maximizes freedom while still achieving the public purpose of having non-blighted commercial districts.
I mean, that's the nature of an emerging situation. What do you _expect_ health officials to do?
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There are copious amounts of examples showing how Nature is attracted to symmetry(a form of beauty). Why wouldn't we use this is evidence as a heuristic?
Yes but it’s so nice in other airports. Like most European airports have dedicated train stations in the basement. Not transit links or a bus going to another bus that you need to take a train to terminal z to get on, but an actual train station that has you straight away integrated with the rail network. Go down a couple of escalators and hop on a train to your destination. Easy.
They do this because the risk is very assymetrical. If someone is >18 and they ask for ID, no big deal. If someone is too young and they don't ask for ID, they risk a huge fine, criminal prosecution and possible loss of their license. So they instruct their staff to "think 25" to minimise the possibility of the latter. It's understandable.

I'm 30 and I still get asked for ID occasionally, and you know what? I don't care - because I've been on the other side. I've worked in those shitty low-paying jobs where you often have to ask people for ID and I've seen how rude, pissy and entitled people can be when you make them suffer the enormous inconvenience of flashing their ID so I can avoid the risk of getting fined thousands of pounds and fired. If you think it's such an indignity to be asked to prove you're above 18 then I suggest you spend more time working in service jobs.
> California I wonder why they can't convert ocean water into fresh water?

There are apparently 11 desalinization plants in California today: https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-as-citie...
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Network effects: your kids don’t get to hang out IRL if everyone else’s parents let their kids meet all their social needs from social media.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the world would be a much better place if the big players in social media ceased to exist, but no single person can act as an island, and you need to understand the problem well enough to give your kids alternatives rather than just put your foot down and say “no” — even us adults have trouble staying off whichever social network our friends and family use.
That’s how I feel every time I get asked for a utility bill as proof of anything. Security theater at its finest.
>but I'm not sure if things in the network infrastructure would be any more challenging.

1. this assumes your network is properly set up and doesn't have legacy cruft that prevents ivp6 from getting deployed

2. empirical evidence speaks for itself: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html. If it was as simple as what was described, ivp6 deployment wouldn't be moving at such a glacial pace.
> this income would be taxed entirely at our highest marginal rate

So your one income alone was large enough to put your in the top marginal rate for a couple alone? That's going to be a pretty rare situation.

I wish more people could afford for one person to stay home and for the reaction to a guy taking paternity leave wasn't so stigmatized.
> … "recreational drug" …

Clearly you missed the news. Little seizure suffering kids are now not having seizures who were previously not being helped by pharmaceuticals (allowing normal lives where all they had to look forward to before was certain death). Cancer patients are finally getting some relief from the misery of chemotherapy. Many people are getting pain relief where nothing worked for them before.

Just because it's used recreationally does not mean it has no medicinal value (despite it's Federal classification as such). You may want to educate yourself on the history of how (and why) it became illegal in the first place, and how much science progress and study has been actively suppressed or entirely prevented surrounding it.
I'm not an expert in GR, but the linked paper seems nonsensical[0]. It postulates a highly degenerate decomposition of the metric tensor, for which they postulate a contrived action which then seems to correspond to the Einstein-Hilbert, through mathematically unsound manipulations (how can you raise indices with the metric being nowhere even close to invertible?).

Besides, how can you talk about unifying general relativity and electromagnetism without mentioning Kaluza-Klein theory[1]? And what about one of the most beautiful principles in physics, gauge invariance[2]?

I don't want to be rude, but I'm very curious as to how this got through peer review.

0: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1956/1/...
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory
The government doesn’t need to write me a check when they rezone my property and block future construction.
you have a point - they are not exact analogies - but, as you say, we came up with those ideas after we had an understanding of the system. If we can discover things without having a prior definition of them, then having a vague prior definition should be no obstacle - even if it leads to some initial confusion, clearing that up through the gathering of evidence should be no harder than coming up with a definition for something we previously did not suspect through the gathering of evidence.

This is so even if it turns out that the phenomenon does not exist, such as in the case of the mythical causal effects of the four humors.
We had a Problem out here in central New Mexico, a foreign investor (external to US, I think it was people in Italy) sought permits to drill very deep wells. At the time, the state of New Mexico technically stopped water rights at some crazy depth, like 3000 feet or more, but anything beyond that was unregulated.

This sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, tailor-made for the ranchers and farmers who control the water. I will try to dig up references...

But just like T. Boone Pickens buying up water rights in Texas, open markets for water don't solve the fact that the American West is out of water, and no amount of legal entitlement is going to create any.
This. If only every other country with oil managed their wealth with such good intentions and for the common good the whole world would most certainly be way far ahead in getting rid of much of our dependency on it. So no, I do not think that selling oil to oil dependent countries is the same as selling opium. They have the same knowledge, means and even more motivation (no freaking oil) to get their shite together and follow the same conversion Norway has been undergoing for almost half a century now. What, do you think their fight is that they just grew a conscience yesterday and decided to replace all their petrodollars with Teslas? They freaking groomed generations of environmentally conscious citizens with all around free access to the best education to become great scientists and engineers to fight off this dependency. In and out of their country. They imported some of our best research scientists which were struggling to make a living out of their work and did not even care about it (At least until they reached their mid 30s and tried to start a family). They now own and live in literally million dollar mansions because their research efforts paid off by a country acknowledging their value. As they should. They were even able to monetize this fight for the environment, making good bucks from it. The fight for our freaking oxygen and clean water. Which shouldn't need any monetary incentive by the way, in case that is not obvious enough. In my mind they are the best kind of society you can get nowadays. I do appreciate the point of view comparing them with freaking vicious enslaving East India trading company and I am sure there is people with that mentality in their numbers but... Bitch, please.
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What, you don’t send your friends screenshots of the beefy machine your work provided you? Or the potato you are running Linux on?
Sorry but you are still equating content from your friends with content from trusted sources and experts. I love my friends, I don't care what their opinions are on most things (because they are often uniformed). And I don't want to see endless pictures of their kids.
After two doses, overall T cell levels were 1.6 times lower after the long compared with the short dosing schedule. However, after the longer dosing interval, a higher proportion of T cells present were ‘helper’ T cells, which are important for long-term immune memory and helping generate antibodies to prevent infection.

The data I'd like to see discovered is if and when this effect tapers off. Surely we need that to know the optimal time to take a booster? (This is assuming the vaccine makeup hadn't changed and you're not taking a booster to immunize against variants.)
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My thought on this is, if you cannot update the device yourself, manufacturers should be mandated to support the device for 4 or 5 years past last point of sale.

If they unlock it, and release full sources so you can access all the hardware in alternative builds, then fine, they can drop support when they please.

It isn't an either/or, in my world they could keep it locked for 3 or 4 years, providing full updates, then provide unlock and a year later drop security updates.

My point is, security updates need to come before profit, and no one should be selling phones a year before updates end. Or even, not even do updates!
Hi HN - I put together a stupid little page of what it would look like if tech was written about in the same way as all the "recipe websites" out there write about recipes.

Enjoy!
Both posts were from me; the first didn't go thru initially, so I posted a second one from a different vpn

Do you want me to dox myself before I try again to complete suicide due to life devastation? Revealing my identity isn't exactly desired when seeking this form of help.

I need a fucking laptop to do any coding and I need a job to do any coding.

PM is to try to remain somewhat anonymous.

PO Box is bc I'm fucking homeless, and need to piggyback off of a friend's PO Box.

I don't have a phone service.

I changed my mind and just want to try again to complete suicide; clean the gene pool.

Hate this ape species.
mass/energy conversion (in particular to/from photons, i.e. EM waves) is a kind of huge hint that there is really only energy and spacetime (and with energy being just a configuration of spacetime we're left with the spacetime only really). The only issue is the nature of electric charge - what is it really, i.e. can it be reduced to gravity? can it be just an emergent property of energy/spacetime? And in particular the repelling property of the charge which at first seems to not exist for gravity - then where it comes from? I think it is some spin based effect along the lines of the [non-charged] black holes spin-spin interaction based repelling effect, something like this https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02894

Another commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27943428 talks what basically looks to me as an emergence of EM field from rotation - "to multiply each point of the universe by a different complex number of modulo 1" - ie. as an artefact emerging by changing the frame to the one where the system is rotating (ie. gets a spin). Kind of similar how magnetic field is just emergent artefact in the frame where charge is linearly moving.
> Further, I'd state actual facts about girls mental health, they will see and be exposed to unhealthy mindsets on this app.

Contra: whether they're online or not, conversations about them will take place. And if they're not online then how can they defend themselves, either as an individual or by herding their friends in their defence as well.
Seems like instead of educating your kids, you prefer to control them.
I think a lot of this might be projection from the HN community. How is this even relevant to schools opening? It seems obvious that forcing kids to wake up at 7:30 to go to a conveniently free and "safe" underfunded facility so both parents can work yet still not make ends meet is the actual culprit. The gender difference is notable, but kids and young girls are very cruel to each other, especially when packed together in close proximity.
We do, EUV LLC. was subsidized by the US govt (via DARPA) and a US industry consortium in the 90s. Lots of the tech went to European allies in I think a sale/collaboration at some point but we maintained power due to that initial seed and have used it for things like trade restrictions on the technology.

(1998) https://www.semiconductoronline.com/doc/euv-llc-enters-devel...
This is where cost and bandwidth matter. If you have satellite coverage but can't afford or don't have the bandwidth to continually stream GPS position and other metrics then it's not very useful.

It's pretty ridiculous we don't stream blackbox data in realtime in instead record it locally like it's still the 1950s.
This guy is a scammer, He orchestrated a major rug pull with his scam crypto coin.
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It's a big issue for several fields of science.
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Putting all your code in one file does indeed solve all import problems, but creates far bigger ones.

In case you didn't know, each source code file is a module in Python.
I am sorry, but I don't understand this logic. The owner still has to make mortgage and property tax payments on an asset that is not yeilding anything. Sure the value may be growing but how fast is it growing if it is sitting empty. Empty building with no maintenance tend to wear down and often get graffitied and broken into - all of which involves further mitigation costs.
Lots of motivated reasoning. See no further than the willingness to believe that there are all these hydroelectric power plants idling around in China to see that it can befall even those convinced they are oh so rational.