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In my personal experience (some of it on the receiving end), the "accusations" of "preteciousness" usually say more about the accuser (and their set of life experiences), than the accused.

The only person who could objectively make that claim is someone who is very-well-versed and up-to-date with the in the targeted writer's writing and/or speaking style.

That is to say - I perceive preteciousness to be something an author or orator purposefully and/or intentionally does for the specific occasion and/or audience, this being "unlike themself" for potentially spurious or considered-bad-by-the-accuser reasons. If that is the "natural" way the person in question communicates, I'd consider the claim false.

[As mentioned, from personal experience, the "new" people ("barely-an-acquitances") often mark or accuse me of it, on account of my (unintentional) code-switching and/or quite consistent mixing of my native language and English, especially when it comes to writing. Meanwhile, people who have known me for years know it to be just one of my (many) idiosyncrasies.]
> Even the historic concept of "collapse" is ill-defined. It's widely accepted today that the Western Roman Empire (probably the most written-about "collapse" event) didn't really collapse at once as much as it slowly changed from within and without. Is this "linear collapse"? I mean maybe, but it may just be the process of change itself.

I love to point out how the symbolism of many modern governments is the result of a sort of cargo cult of Roman Republican culture. Government buildings to this day copy the dull gray ruins of Roman buildings, just as many 18th/19th century governments declared popular authority from a Latin-imitating "Senate", filled to the brim with Roman symbolism.

With that in mind, it's not surprising that many today believe the 18th/19th century's "fall of Rome" and "barbarian invasion" myths as a sort of predictive weak-spot of modernity. If you view civilization as a linear path, a story of how the intrinsically superior empires of the Greek/Macedonians and Romans successively lifted the world out of its natural, primitive barbarian state, and the shifting power centers of the 3rd-8th century as a "turning back of time to the Dark Ages" or linear regression along the same path, then the "collapse" narrative is as plain as day. This view on history is pure fantasy, of course, which is why the collapse narratives set in modern days seem so fantastic as well.
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On a well managed farm, you can get 1 cow per 1.25 acres of land, hanging weight about 750lbs. That yields about 750k kcal, which is enough for 2100 calories per day for an entire year.

Nutritionally, you can get all of your fat or protein from 1lb of beef per day. One cow is enough to feed 2 adult humans for an entire year.

This production would require almost zero external inputs. No fertilizer or water, just graze land and water from rainfall.

Just in corn alone, we produce over 10k kcal per person annually in the US. We have a surplus of grains and legumes. We produce an order of magnitude more calories than we need every year.

If you want to solve sustainability, you need to solve waste. To solve waste, you need to fix the incentives. As long as city dwellers demand their cheap industrialized food, taxes will subsidize the cheap industrialized food.
So this is all really about workarounding the GPLv3. Sigh.

Saying that because the motivation is apparently that Free was "stuck" for non-descript reasons with "an old unsecure SMBv1 server", which, i'm going to guess, due to an entirely random coincidence, happens to be the latest version of Samba which was GPLv2-licensed. :(
A union’s job is to look out for it’s members. If the members of a teacher’s union decide to champion political issues then that is their right.
I don't think anyone in this thread has discussed one of the other important aspects of gaming: the social aspect.

Especially in an era of "quarantine at home" - online gaming can be a very social activity and a way to make/grow friendships and play with others.

(Obviously I think getting outdoors and being active instead of staring at a screen all day is probably even better, but that is one benefit of games over just "grinding")
Firefox containers are cool. I do wish though that they were better integrated with the rest of the browser eg. bookmarks , history, downloads etc.

I am aware that I can configure it to open certain sites in certain containers always, but that is not ideal in many cases eg. using github/gmail for both work & personal use.

I currently use an extension [1] that enables support for opening links in specific containers using custom protocol handler. So now I can have a launch-gmail.sh script that invokes

firefox 'ext+container:name=Google&url=https://mail.google.com'

to open the site in a specific container.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-c...
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A guy playing guitar surrounded by women, yes that is even a meme, but I've never seen that happen at a party with mostly men nor have I seen a woman play an instrument at a party. It seems to mainly be a way for men to demonstrate value to women. There are of course other situations, but this is what I've seen and this is what most of the internet have seen since it is even a meme as I said. Example of guitar guy meme:

https://everythreeweekly.com/2013/12/that-guy-who-brings-aco...

Another example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/76k1c0/guy_th...

To me it doesn't look like people appreciate them, at least not the men.
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Glad. What things you really hate and like? It will help me to learn more.
President Roosevelt was right: we should have never allowed public employees to unionize. When unions negotiate with government officials there is no one to represent the interest of ordinary citizens and taxpayers.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-the-resolut...
This points to a deep rooted problem. Probably OCD.

(Ha, you expected me to write about a problem in how people use language, got ya :-)
If I remember right, Google found something similar too. Everyone knows Google makes the candidates jumps through a lot of hoops to evaluate them and hire the "best and the brightest". But an internal study showed that apart from the really top talent (the rare few), all that technical knowledge doesn't matter much in the long run:

> "Google originally set its hiring algorithms to sort for computer science students with top grades from elite science universities. In 2013, Google decided to test its hiring hypothesis by crunching every bit and byte of hiring, firing, and promotion data accumulated since the company’s incorporation in 1998. Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills ..."

> "Project Aristotle analyzes data on inventive and productive teams. Google takes pride in its A-teams, assembled with top scientists, each with the most specialized knowledge and able to throw down one cutting-edge idea after another. Its data analysis revealed, however, that the company’s most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don’t always have to be the smartest people in the room. Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills ..."

Source: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/12/...
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Sure but I’m not really comfortable with this level of government interference with peoples lives.

No one ever stopped me from playing soccer for 5 hours a day when I was younger, and in high school sports practice was a 3 hour minimum.

This restricts game play to 3 hours per week. That means essentially you can’t play video games for leisure … while at the same time you are forced to do a minimum of 40 hours a week in education (normal school + cram school + homework).

If you can only play a video game for 25 minutes a day, you might as well never play.
> Americans aren't a threat when we've collectively moved on.

You may have collectively moved on, but the United States is still banning travel from many, many regions that have a much lower prevalence of COVID-19 than it does.

Reciprocally banning Americans from traveling seems like an appropriate response.
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Citadel has been around forever, but I've only played with its BBS functionality. Has anyone tried it for calendaring etc.?
Subs must necessarily produce heat. That heat has to go into the surrounding (usually very cold) water. This is unavoidable. Those nuclear reactors are cooled with that surrounding water, though obviously through heat exchangers.
> I think a lot of this is because our profession does not have an accepted universal bar everyone can jump over to be considered ‘qualified’

Someday soon we may accept that what gets classified as software engineering is actually an amalgamation of skills from an entirely different set of titles/careers, most of which treat software creation and management as a tool and means to an end.

I don't generally consider a blacksmith and a welder to be the same occupations. You can lump them under metalworker, but would you really expect the interview process for these roles to be at all similar?
Really strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic. You would think they would be encouraging activities which enable social distancing, not banning them.
Your comment explains why the variance is high; it doesn't explain why the mean should be low.

In other words, there flipside of what you said is that sometimes you'll excel and be offered the job on very attractive terms.
People don't care about what China does inside China as opposed to what it does outside.
Loosely related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353718
You are making an extraordinary claim when you state that the vaccine does not prevent spread.
Additionally, the flu vaccine becomes ineffective year after year expressly because of variant strains arising from unvaccinated people failing to take precautions like wearing masks, socially distancing during epidemics, and avoiding school and work while infectious.
Hm. Mostly what I expected then. With one exception: I am in the EU so here $120K a year does not exist. Not even $100K is easily achievable although I've commanded the equivalent of ~$90K a year and will soon work for the same figure.

So I started wondering if I can pivot to the US market -- which was never a goal.

I appreciate your advice. Insecurity and the impostor syndrome can hit even super capable people (I've seen it). Your words help me reassert my self-confidence, and that's sometimes shaky. :)
I’m frustrated that adding and tracking public events is still so primitive. Why can’t I just click a button and follow all the local events for my favorite artist/venue/team/theater/charity? Why do I still have to manually create events and copy and paste details? Why are there so few “add to calendar” and why do they often fail?

Part of it is down to the failure of micro formats and the semantic web, but it would seem like with today’s technology it wouldn’t be to hard for a browser extension to recognize an event and automatically extract the correct details (title, place, date, time).
> Stop complaining about people who protest about the restrictions (whatever the restrictions), and support them

I refuse.

So long as they - antivaxers - are filling hospital emergency rooms and killing other people by DDOSing caregivers, I absolutely fucking refuse.
> [...] “Metcalfe’s Law”: “the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).” That is, every time you add a new user to a network you double the number of ways that users can connect with one another.

Small detail, but that's not how n^2 works. "Double something every time n is incremented" would be exponential, 2^n not n^2.
I can't help but feel that the whole advertisement and "ad targeting" business is built upon quite a few lies and a dose of misinformation to make the whole thing seem way more effective than it is.
Three years sounds reasonable, one not so much. For the lack of security at one year, an actual contracting role might be more lucrative.

Is it the case you can earn (quite a bit) more as a contractor, compared to full-time employment in NL? At least when I was doing contracting in the UK contracting roles could earn me almost twice as much as permanent roles (without the benefits of course).
I don't think it's helpful to "take pride in" introversion any more than it is to demonize it. Human connection is important, and so are many solitary activities. They aren't mutually-exclusive. And each of them can take many different forms.
Beats still operates as a brand of audio equipment: https://www.beatsbydre.com/
Honestly, I wish I could delete at least half the comments here, including yours. It's as if the moment somebody mentions "government", the majority of HN that is American goes "bu-bu-but it's authoritarian!!!!" and cries about freedom. It's ridiculous.

The CCP is an authoritarian government. Yes. Is this being proposed in the US? No. Why all the whining and insane amount of pearl-clutching then?

Frankly, I was hoping to see more discussion about the (potential) effects of (excessive) gaming or the potential/unforeseen consequences of the ban, but apparently people here seem to go braindead the moment China, government or freedom is mentioned. It feels like I'm back on Facebook or Reddit again. Has the level of discourse really become that much worse on HN over the years?
My most upvoted reddit comment ever was when I posted a "Sacagawea selfie"... by sticking my camera at the end of a statue's arm: https://i.imgur.com/UXRUx8q.jpeg
One of the goals i believe is to also allow some things like RDMA and other pcie to pcie comms for handling 100Gb+ speeds from direct nvme or similar storage. That's also really hard to do from userspace because it's dealing with hardware and resource controls. Not impossible to do, but certainly not easy either.
Good point! I think this heuristic works well if the edges between tiles in completed picture are uniquely identifiable or close to that. However from the images there seem to be only 4 "colors" of edges in the puzzle (8 if you count two orientations for each character), so I think this will prune the search space to "only" perhaps around 100k-500k. Still really good, this makes the search space 50k-250k times smaller.
LOL at people still thinking any of this is "temporary" or it will stay "mild". You're looking at stratification of society a year from now where anyone whose mandatory booster shot is older than 6 months can't participate, you must quadruple mask and wear a buttplug (farts spread covid too, you know), and you can't complain on FB or anywhere else about any of this because you'll get banned not just from FB but from everywhere, and lose your job, too.
It's not really that simple. First of all, "the orders of magnitude" claim is not supported by anything I've seen, care to provide your source? Then there is an issue of what cells are affected. We know that the virus binds only to a certain receptor, which exists only on some cells. What about the vaccine's "lipid particles", do they bind to receptors at all? I also could not find any reliable information on these particle mechanism of action, which I imagine is natural as this is the trade secret of the vaccine manufacturers so we don't know if these affect the same cells the virus does. I for one rather sacrifice a few billion of epithelial cells to the virus than 1/1000th of this number in the brain neurons to the vaccine because neurons are probably not going to regenerate while the epithelium constantly regenerates.
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Most people assume governments are benevolent. The rest are bots and/or promoting a political agenda.
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Would love to in another life, but have too many responsibilities and obligations (e.g. things I love and cherish) here to do anything like that in good faith at this point. I have a friend who did when he was young (probably best time to do these types of things) and it's a thing that has a lot of meaning to him to this day and rightfully so I imagine.
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I asked a classical-loving friend this same question and she gave me a wonderful Spotify playlist that I can share if you're interested[1]. I also condensed it down to my own favorites if you'd like that as well[2].

[1]: Turns out I'm unable to share her playlist, but...

[2]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Foxcns6j4SwiWIWiaEtKX?si=...
If it is a choice between, (1) Spend $500M just to see whether there really is a black hole there, or (2) it is probably a just statistical fluke -- it is not hard to guess which will be chosen.
> What's so bad about... mediocrity?

Nothing, but engineers are expensive, so if you can spend a couple thousand dollars to get better value for the money, you might as well.

Of course, some companies spend far more than that, which is probably not economical.
What about Israel? [0]

What about Gibralter?

They have also had huge upticks in cases and are still mostly vaccinated.

The idea that this vaccine is going to cure everything feels more and more silly -- places with high vaccination rates _still have problems_.

If the goal is 100% compliance on vaccinations, what do you do about other countries? These variants will be leaking out of them until the end of time.

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-DZDM-UUAInxW7?format=jpg&name=...
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Canada's government should win an award for incoherence. They called the USA racist for banning flights from China, then proceeded to ban flights from China one week later. Canada subsequently proceeded to ban non-essential trips to/from the USA by road, but only partially by air when the USA had a higher infection rate. Then, even after Canada achieved the same infection rate as border states, the government kept the travel ban, to no apparent gain. There are even more gems if you look for them: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/canadian-travellers-fined-5-700-each-f...
Mother Jones was reporting on similar shenanigans in the house J. Edgar built back in 2011.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/fbi-terrorist-i...

It's a time-dishonored tradition that goes back to COINTELPRO, by the agency's own admission.

https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
In games like Magic: The Gathering you do get to decide what possible cards you can be dealt.
I think it's more a response to two decades of corporations having free rein to exploit kids (and adults honestly but I understand such a policy would be less palatable). We've known since forever that the only solution would be government intervention since the market will never correct a dopamine lever and just .. nothing happened because it's profitable.

It's honestly nice to see a not totally incompetent government try a novel policy with good intentions. It's welcome break from the firehose of our own government making policies that seem to only target the poor and minorities.
>We perform a field experiment to measure racial discrimination in the labor market. We respond with fictitious resumes to help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers. To manipulate perception of race, each resume is assigned either a very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a better resume. For White names, a higher quality resume elicits 30 percent more callbacks whereas for African Americans, it elicits a far smaller increase.[1]

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>Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago sent 83,000 fictitious applications for entry-level job postings to 108 Fortune 500 employers, using randomly assigned and racially distinctive names. They found that distinctively Black names on applications with reduced the likelihood of hearing back from an employer by 2.1 percentage points relative to distinctively White names. But differences in contact rates varied substantially across firms. About 20% of the companies were responsible for roughly half of the discriminatory behavior in the experiment. [3]

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

[2] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-29/job-appli...
Some of the EmptyEpsilon scenarios are very much like this, and many have tunable difficulty settings to increase the number and frequency of things like enemy activity. The enemy AI is extremely simplistic, but the chaos on the bridge tends to balance it out.

Minigames come up pretty often for EE, with one problem being that they aren't fulfilling when there's less to do and overwhelming when there's more. The only station that has them in EE is the Relay/communications station, which models hacking other ships with puzzle minigames.

EmptyEpsilon also has a few PvP scenarios.
Yes. This is a "Very Online taxonomy".

While I think it's useful to think about mechanisms of collapse, the author seems to have a clear bias towards the belief that collapse will happen which feels very non-objective.

In my experience, the vast majority of people I interact with (maybe 90%+) fall into the author's categorization of "radical denier" or "partial denier".

I don't think there's anything "radical" about the belief that while things will change, society will go on. But calling the belief radical and suggesting that this is a belief only shared by Very Evil People (e.g. Koch Brothers) is a disingenuous straw man.

For the record, if I had to put myself into this unscientific taxonomy, I might be somewhere between a technological and economic optimist.
Dairy cows are killed for meat about 5 years into their 25 year lifespan when they stop producing as much milk. That's on top of being made pregnant (so they produce milk in the first place), having their offspring taken from them (so they don't take the milk) multiple times and male offspring being killed for veal. I don't see how it's any better than eating meat - you're still paying for animals to be killed for products that aren't essential.