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> I am not a Catholic scholar, but as far as homosexual sex goes, they can't. It's in the Bible, and literally set in stone as being an abomination to God as far as all of the Abrahamic religions are concerned.

You might be surprised to learn that those references are considerably more ambiguous than how they are generally talked about.

The Bible has been continually retranslated by people with specific agendas and moral frameworks. Some of those translation choices are pretty questionable. As one example, Thomas Aquinas chose to translate "don't practice witchcraft" as "don't interpret dreams" due to his own inability to manage his (intense) dream life. That probably singlehandedly set back discourse around dreams in Western culture a couple hundred years.

The idea that the New Testament speaks against homosexuality comes largely from the (mis)translation of the single Koine Greek word 'arsenokoites.' It has often been translated as 'men who lie with men' but does not have that literal meaning and was not used as a term for homosexuality at the time.

As just one proposed example other scholars have put forth, that line could actually be chastising 'men who lay about,' as in rich people who do nothing to contribute to society. It could also be referring to temple prostitution, something completely alien and irrelevant to most modern people. It isn't nearly as clear cut as homophobic Christians wish it was.

As one other example, the story of Sodom is actually about not providing shelter and assistance to travelers who come to you needing help. The licentiousness is secondary to the main moral teaching of that bit, which a lot of Christians conveniently ignore when they are actually called upon to support strangers in need.

Here's a bit on difficulties translating arsenokoites if you're curious: https://www.stopbibleabuse.org/biblical-references/paul/arse...

I don't know as much about the Old Testament, so can't really speak to that. Personally I find most of that stuff much harder to relate to than the reforms Jesus was trying to lead people into, so I have a harder time imagining how or why you might try to build a modern ethical framework from it. That said, it seems to me that Judaism generally does a better job of acknowledged the ambiguities and interpretative nature of translating religious texts; debate has always been a central part of Jewish religious discourse.
> Which leaves Unity, Epic, and a handful AAA game developers as potential Vulkan users

??? For example, there are a substantial number of emulators that have already implemented or are in the middle of implementing a Vulkan backend: RPCS3, Dolphin, Yuzu, Cemu, Ryujinx, PPSSPP... these emulators are developed by small teams but often push the hardware hard, bringing bugs to light in the process.
I can't help but feel sorry for the Slack engineers who are used to working at a nimble and innovative company, and now will be beaten down by bureaucracy only rivaled by large governments.
And didn't cloud seeding used to be chemical-based where this is electrical? Does that make this less sketchy?
I think what I get hung up on with explanations like this is, what changes once the wave function has collapsed? Are there observable characteristics before wave function collapse that become different after the wave function collapses?

Maybe this question just reduces to “how can we tell the difference between two entangled particles having always been in some state (but we didn’t know it) vs. being simultaneously in both states until we make a measurement?”

Based on other comments in this post, it seems like the answer may be: Bell’s theorem proves that classical explanations have an upper bound on correlations between the particles, but quantum mechanics predicts a correlation the violates the classical upper bound. And we can experimentally test the correlations in practice.

This is all very hard to wrap my head around.
I was at a cafe and a homeless dude came in wanting to buy a coke for cash, the barista pointed to the “card only” sign and the guy left without buying. Seems explicitly anti homeless at times.
I was on a team that was on HipChat that switched over to Slack shortly after it came out. One simple reason: reliability. At that time HipChat had frequent outages. It's certainly all over HN when Slack goes down but I think that's partly because it actually is down quite rarely, and because of this reliability people have built more and more mission critical integrations into Slack, like ChatOps.
Last time I used it, it just flat out stopped working, and nothing I tried could fix it. I could type messages but would not receive any messages anyone else was sending, though on their ends it would show the messages as sent. Tried the web client, same thing. I told my friends they could now reach me on discord if they wanted to continue talking to me, and that's the last time I used skype, years ago.

Even before then, it was extremely spotty with occasionally refusing to deliver messages, not being able to hear the other person on calls, and other stability issues. But it's been so long, I don't remember the exact details anymore, just that it gradually went from a piece of software that I really liked to something that was giving me the most trouble out of any software I was using.
Lack of clouds during wildfire conditions would be my guess
Tesla will not survive the weight of its stock price if the only buyers are ones who are purchasing it for the status symbol. They NEED to be part of and setting the standards.

If Apple's stock had been priced at hitting android levels of market penetration and they hit the plateau they're currently on, their board would all have been fired and the vultures would be circling.
Seems to me like it's an advertisement for shipit
For a few shifts? That's five shifts, and usually a good eight hours each. And the income is sporadic; during the offseason (in tourist areas) your income might be halved.
> they take the side of "VHS was better than Betamax", "Climate change isn't real" "Qwerty is better than Dvorak" etc.

Which one of these is not like the other?

The free-market isn't some entity with a plan. It can't say "well we're going to screw up the whole world if we don't reduce profits now". It also does optimize at times for inefficient local minimums in practice.

I don't think what you and the OP I responded to are saying is really consistent at all and I will stand by and continue to criticize someone saying that free market supporters "don't believe climate change is real". That's nonsense. Again, some (not all) would simply argue the market can better handle it than government intervention. I disagree with this but you can't say people who believe in free markets don't believe that it's real. And furthermore, you believe in free markets and you believe it's real right? Or do you not? I'd love to hear a reconciliation of that.

> "these credit default swaps must be well founded, because it would be impossible for a free market of financial products to misvalue them."

Well if we throw aside government regulation of banks in general (before, during, after, the Fed, the whole shebang), the market would have worked itself out here. Those who took excess risk without understanding it would have failed. It's no different than any other risk taking. Unfortunately the government and banks are socializing losses and privatizing gains here. Many are suggesting in retrospect that we should have let the banks fail, because now that they know they will be bailed out they'll engage in even more risky behavior. The free market is further distorted here. I think it's a really interesting and long conversation to have, but you're oversimplifying it to defend an indefensible position.

In other words, you don't get to double-blame the free market. The free market wouldn't have bailed out the banks. It might have created the risky behavior, but the government bailed them out, so we don't get to see the system correct itself.

> These are all real opinions that many people encounter in the real world and have to fight against.

Yep. I have to all the time talk about and defend things too. People say the second amendment should be abolished, or that we shouldn't have universal health care and they are real things that I have to fight against (I support UHC and 2ndA). Nobody here has some big burden fighting against opinions in the wild any more than anyone else does.
I don't think we use those terms in public. We use charging network provider or something for EMSP and operator for CPO (Charging Point Operators). I'm also used to lots of very techincal dicussions on this subject where everyone understands them. Every now and then someone adds in a new term to mean one of the normal terms because of some new thing.

When you onboard to our company you have to learn so many acronyms.
Do you have any references for yours?
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The question is what they see as their business model. Part of the Tesla pitch to buy a car is access to the big Tesla super charger network.

Competing on charging networks is tough. The charging cost is determined in large parts by energy cost and rent for the space. Customers have some ease-of-use effect to get a membership at a large network, but brand reliance is low. Thus there is little to gain, but cars from all sorts of vendors blocking Tesla's chargers isn't good for the exclusivity of their brand.
I work on something which will either be a side project for CV or a small business if I'm lucky - in either case most of the work at the time relates to development.
On a typical week I put 30 - 40h into it (I don't work full time so I can afford it) and it still goes so damn slow. And the project is not anything crazy, just a standard Electron desktop app.

I can hardly imagine how someone could build anything at 2h/week. 30 min is barely enough time for the brain to switch gears.

I fully get how someone does not have time for side projects - they have life besides work, while I barely do.
That’s my other issue. It’s so full of glitches … I hope this newfound interest in UI design will also have an effect on the sensitivity for bugs.

Stability/resource usage wise I didn’t have many issues in the Wayland session at all, though. Seems like they’ve improved that a lot in the past years.

I don’t use KDE for multiple reasons anymore, but I like how it usually understands what an advanced user wants to do, which no other DE really seems to. I massively appreciate that and have some hope they’ll get their act together in those areas eventually.
>it's not that they don't have a lot of capacity

How can you say that any number of anything is 'a lot' when you're specifically not considering demand? What does it even mean for there to be 'a lot of capacity' in a sense divorced from relative demand? 'A lot' only has meaning in relative terms.
Over here the thrift / secondhand stores are usually charities, so it's kinda expected the employees are volunteered or low paid.

I'm confident that since they work there, they get first pickings of anything of value - jewelry, rare albums/books, collectibles - before it ends up for sale. I can't begrudge them that, they offer a valuable service and all, but at the same time I'm jealous of others who find great stuff at thrift stores.
Can you drink cola without adverse effects?

Because I can. And coffee gives me issues after a week or two.

Therefore something seems wrong about giving caffeine all the blame.
Not defending ridiculous claims based on small sample sets, but isn't this how it's supposed to work? You run some tests and notice a pattern and develop an hypothesis, and then continue to expand the test to see if it holds true? Then other groups perform the same tests to hopefully receive the same results so that we end up with known facts. Essentially, the definition of scientific method.
I'm curious how places out there by the sea like Dubai are essentially a desert. Evaporation should be massive at those areas no?
Huh. The GUI must have lied to me. Annoying.
You mean like the lab leak hypothesis that everyone said was untrue but now thinks might be true?
I am saying large-scale refactoring can and should (in same cases) happen (and are doable). The author claims you should always do it in steps. I disagree with this opinion. If the refactoring is automatic, why would I do it in steps?
This is actually the reason why Miami is one of the few major American cities that's never broken 100 F in recorded history. When temperatures rise significantly above 90, then the chance of rain goes to 100%, which cools things back down. It's pretty much why you get clockwork torrential downpours every afternoon in Florida summers.
I don’t see why automakers should pay up. They don’t pay oil companies to allow their customers to buy their gas, either.

It’s the customers who they should expect money from.
Aren't like >70% of the populations taxes extremely simple tho? Most people are just taking the standard deduction and not much else.

Most of the complications in tax policy are affecting a small minority of people and corporations.
People who are paid to write it and their managers.
A hash table has E[O(1)] inserts and lookups. Most people ignore the expected part and just say those operations are O(1).

Asymptotic complexity is of course only loosely correlated with speed. In real systems with real workload sizes, constant factors matter a lot.
It is a US-only phenomenon. So far nobody was able to show an example of this happening in other countries.
He’s stating facts. He’s not advocating.
Independently of gematik's work, Phoenix also uses Matrix as its communication backplane (source: the Matrix team is also consulting on it :)
This is awesome and made my day knowing that the space industry is big enough to support a startup building this kind of ops tooling.

You said “you don’t hear about most of those on the news” and you’re right - most of the customer logos on your website I’d never heard of - is there a website / twitter / ? that you rely on for daily coverage?

I would love to build a better view of the industry, players, priorities.
that folder seems to be a different format:

https://github.com/diggerhq/digger-examples/tree/master/node
This hurts in the Glitch-shaped hole in my heart.

But also, if they did start work on a new game, I'd immediately start following it.
You can change your display name on a per channel basis after you join. They can still see your account tag if they click on your account, so there’s no way to disassociate accounts with a single login. There’s also no way to change avatars per channel, AFAIK.
Why is CCS so big compared to the Tesla one? Why does one plug have to connect to both AC and DC even if you're using only either one?
Sounds like the next iteration of downstream countries getting mad at upstream countries building dams on rivers.

E.G. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50328647
I checked it at the time of posting the above comment, so I could still not intuitively use the interface (for example the dragging feels strange, there is no preview of the dragging and I would expect drag to move cells not to connect them, for connection I would expect to drag a "connect" handle or something like that).

I don't think the tutorial is the way to go, I would focus more on improving the UI/UX so it's more intuitive and doesn't need a complex tutorial.
For what it’s worth, 10 Korean wons are worth less than a US cent (1 USD is over 1000 KRW).
I thought op made those quotes up and found it hillarious. Then saw they were actual quotes.
> electrical charges into clouds in order for them to clump together and form precipitation

So like … real rain?
Ironically when I was working there, they would translate a lot of English words into German because most of the people in those institutions have been working there for 30+ years and don't have any exposure to English terminology. When they used Jira "Todo" was a term that needed to be translated.
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Controversial take: We found that we get better responsiveness from our open source community on Slack at PostHog, probably as our users have it open for work already and are used to posting without too much thought, whereas making a post on a forum feels like a higher barrier to entry. This feedback helps us improve the product. Would love something that extracts all the content and pushes it somewhere indexable though, as we often end up manually taking conversations and converting into github issues etc.
Matrix installations by default (even on your own server) have all users phoning back home to the Vector identity stuff.

Same goes for the push service for the iOS app, but that isn't really their fault as Apple makes it impossible for federated systems to do push without each homeserver having their own app. All notifications for a single app need to come from one centralized push certificate holder.
looks promising!

how does it compare to convox[0]? (never used it, but I think it’s similar?)

[0] https://convox.com/
I actually find this to be a really interesting question. Founders do have significant sway in these kind of deals, in terms of advocating (or not advocating) for employees.

How are Slack employees doing financially?
I’m not against public transit. I lived in Taiwan for a while which has very good public transport. But what’s good for a single person doesn’t necessarily work for a family living outside the city. The benefits of owning a car are pretty clear there.
If I have a company, and we use your service to generate our AWS infrastructure. If there is a bug in your service that causes a misconfigured something that causes downtime to my company, leaking pii/customer info, etc. How much liability are you taking on? Can we sue you?
That's a great way to make millions instead of billions.
I agree strongly with you about the need for good resources. Here are a few I've found that are useful.

* A trip through the Graphics Pipeline[1] is slightly dated (10 years old) but still very relevant.

* If you're interested in compute shaders specifically, I've put together "compute shader 101"[2].

* Alyssa Rosenzweig's posts[3] on reverse engineering GPUs casts a lot of light on how they work at a low level. It helps to have a big-picture understanding first.

I think there is demand for a good book on this topic.

[1]: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...

[2]: https://github.com/googlefonts/compute-shader-101

[3]: https://rosenzweig.io/
I know it's a favorite pastime on HN to bitch about Jira, but I actually commend Atlassian for "New Jira". IMO they had an incredibly difficult problem: how to simplify the app that had grown pretty monstrous over the years, but in a way where you don't piss off every company that has their own specific workflow so if you don't support their particular way of doing things, they crap all over your changes.

I'm very happy with the new jira that we've been using for the past ~18 months, and I think it strikes the right balance between simplicity and ease of setup while still supporting the features we need.
Something tells me this is not the first time the GC took such an approach.
Great! I can’t wait for Slack to perish.
Have you tried drinking it black as well? I wonder if it’s added sugar that a lot of oat milks have or something drowsy-inducing in milk.
You could say a priori but then you're just exchanging English for Latin.
Well, or their heirs don't treasure. I've found some fairly remarkable stuff in used bookstores.
> I don't recall vending machines ever taking pennies in my lifetime to begin with either. They've been that useless and annoying to deal with for that long.

Bus fare boxes often will, although they don't show it on the sticker. I got rid of a ton of pennies when I was riding a bus regularly.
The technique is different too. This uses electricity somehow instead of the chemical methods that are typically what people call "cloud seeding".
I think they are just trying to raise the value of the collection so that the sideline investors will get their attention about the said sale.
I've had the pleasure of working with Ben for a while, cheers from team mav! Wearing my matrix hoodie writing this :)
I'm assuming that's the stats for the "results" on the linked page. It's certainly not the stats of opinions of mathematicians in my circles.
I'm willing to bet that much of that extra code you talk about is the boilerplate code that every Vulkan tutorial tells you is boilerplate code. After that boilerplate is cut and pasted in and you have your first triangle, what is the incremental in drawing a second triangle?
Long-term orbit stability of the Apollo 11 “Eagle” Lunar Module Ascent Stage
It’s mostly immigrants who grew up in Europe with the idea that the state is the enemy. Firefighters and paramedics are an extension of the state so they are targets. Often they set a trash can or something on fire to lure firemen then proceed to encircle them from all sides. Throwing rocks and other stuff.
That's a good thing, though. Get a VPS for 5$ per month, set up LetsEncrypt and launch the software in a Docker container - and you will have to do very little administration.

Then no one can limit the messages that you can have in the chat or make you pay for many of the features or suddenly take the software away from you or make you have an outage due to external factors of any software vendor.
There is a lot more nuance than that, and the danger is more about well placed nationals who can be recruited than government trained spies.

This is what risk assesnments are for. The consequence of every piece of gitlab hosted code, much of it which runs on publically visible servers, falling into adveserial hands is catastrophic. A government may well make an offer too good to refuse.

On the otherhand, there are pleanty of other software jobs out there which pose minimal risk, and many companies demonstrably are more than willing to hire Russians or outsource to Russia.
Great! now they only need to fix the problem of doctors giving preference to private health insurance vs public health insurance. Or the problem of doctors systematically rejecting immigrants to be their GP or even giving them an appointment.
The US spends more on a lot of things and gets less (education, transit).

What’s weird about the life expectancy point is that the demographic within the US that has the least healthcare access, Hispanics, have a life expectancy comparable to people in Western Europe. Prior to covid, life expectancy for US Hispanics was 81.8, a year longer than people in Denmark. But almost 1 in 5 Hispanics lacks health insurance.

Moreover, asians in the US are the longest lived people anywhere in the world. The life expectancy of Asians in the US is over 87 years, 3 years longer than Japan and 6 years longer than Denmark. But there is no special Asian healthcare system in the US (unless I didn’t get the memo). Asians actually have slightly less healthcare access than whites.

So you can’t discount demographic (and diet and culture) differences in the US when looking at life expectancy. It’s not clear you’re comparing like with like.
Well, yes. Matrix is a federated protocol like IRC, XMPP/Jabber, IRCv3 and a few other less known ones. Being federated is basically what made Email so widespread, and I guess in the long run that model of doing things will be the only viable one. For most people, states, companies and organisations, using a centralized foreign service, no matter how trustworthy it were said to be, isn't an option.
+1 for freetaxusa. Been using them for the past couple years and have had no problems
Much appreciated!
I certainly question it from personal experience, but I'm very interested to know more.
I would absolutely love to be able to donate a domain name to the Internet Archive plus a lump sum cash donation and have them keep it hosted in perpetuity.
Seems like a common misconception to me that people seem to believe that you can never change an interface. You actually can as long as it is not published to be used outside of your repositories.