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The guy who used to sweep away the paper airplanes (Roy Glauber) went on to win the Nobel prize in physics for his work in quantom optics.

Based on his wikipedia page [0], you would think that Keeper of the Broom is a more prestigous title than Nobel laureate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_J._Glauber
> Then most of the world isn't free I fear.

I fear that too. Freedom has always been paid for with blood, so if it's just meekly handed back, we are robbing our grandchildren and passing that cost on to them.

That said, what parts of the world are you talking about? If you look at the insults being freely hurled on twitter at politicians around the the English speaking western world, I'm not sure how bad it is here yet. Maybe it's only a problem there if you insult the wrong type of politician?

> Why should it be legal to publicly insult someone?

How do you define an insult? Would it be insulting to call someone a nazi, white supremacist, racist, misogynist, Russian agent, heartless, senile? What if those things were true or you believed them to be true or at least a valid comparison to some degree? What if you call a religion or ideology bad or point out bad things about its teachings? Even if what you say is true, it can still be taken as insults by followers. Should blasphemy be outlawed?

> You can't punch people in the USA. Does that make the country not particularly free?

It does not.
This take sounds like it's just opportunistically trying to find the negative in a positive, because it's Facebook.

In some countries, masking recording/photo-taking indicators is a bona-fide crime.

The TOS normalizing this to "don't hide the fact that your recording glasses are recoding" is not only not an onerous term of service, it is uncharacteristically pro-safety and pro-privacy.
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Do real estate investments count? I've heard others say it's not truly passive.
Sounds like a PR play then.
Note all the "reasonable" and "great danger" in the decision. It's unclear (and to be determined) if covid fits that description
> It's literally impossible to use that without zooming

Let's keep the discussion honest. I have a high DPI phone screen, I'm at the normal text size for my device, and I regularly use those buttons without zooming with reasonable accuracy.

The hyperbole is not warranted here. While I agree touch targets could be bigger they are certainly not impossible to use reliably.
An amazing achievement but he has a way to go before he’s even close to Martin Strel - the Big River Man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Strel
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Thank you.

You're correct the PPP rates doesn't reflect the exchange rates, It's based on market basket of common goods.

According to the Wiki[1],

>> Ideally, a computer in New York and in Hong Kong should have the same price. If its price is 500 US dollars in New York and the same computer costs 2000 HK dollars in Hong Kong, PPP theory says the exchange rate should be 4 HK dollars for every 1 US dollar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity#Conver...
Reading things like these in other (even developed, Western) nations:

- UK surveillance state powers, anti-porn laws

- Australian laws to detain you, break encryption

- This German incident

I sure am glad to live in a country where freedoms are explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree.
That's exactly what they are!

Seriously how is this not obvious?
China will never be a reserve currency because Chinese courts do not respect property rights.
In my opinion self replicating teach is the greatest existential threat to humanity.
Agreed, but that's inconsistent with a claim that China is a threat for the world that justifies atrocities to stop.
Oooh! These HN nerds are so tough … when they’re typing anonymously on their keyboards.
I agree. There are instances of this syndrome all over the world. The common denominator is the presence of US Government employees.

I call it as 'workplace injuries'. But the Government is more willing to blame 'adversaries' than admit any liability to millions of dollars in Workers' Compensation Claims.
That laziness isn't so smart when it comes time to write all the tests to check there won't be runtime exceptions due to treating values as the wrong type.
The average public school teacher salary in the US is $63,645. The US median personal income is $35,977. On top of that, public school teachers get pensions and other benefits not given to the median US worker. The idea that they're poorly compensated is a myth. They make more money than most of the people funding their salaries.

On top of that, teachers unions cause all the usual non-monetary harms, like preventing teachers who deserve to be fired from being fired, or driving off eager young teachers with stale seniority rules.
PENIS is the new Godwin.

edit: Singing voice: Hast Du etwas Zeit für mich, dann schwinge ich mein Glied für Dich...
Trickle down economics was and is a lie.
> some call a coup

Marxists and the MSM, you mean.
I think at least one study has shown that strenuous exercise before sleep is not good for your sleep.
Proportions don't matter in this case. Individuals immigrating each year and the waitlist to do so does. Otherwise you're comparing admission policies instead of the will to live in that place.
Another thing the US can do (and other countries that criticise China's human rights policies) is set a better example in international affairs. People in the US and US-aligned countries can organise opposition, for example to end the blockade of Cuba, take care of the disadvantaged, and end the illegal wars and terrorism. Meaningful action we can all take, utilising the freedoms and privileges we have to criticise the actions of our governments.
Absolutely not. US troops in Taiwan create a long term issue. It's objectively better for China to strike Taiwan before there are sizeable troops there than wait for those trooos to accumulate forever.

China would strike as soon as US troops officially settle in China in a military and not police/security/training/sales capacity.
You need a Delaware C Corp when you need it. Typically that’s when there’s an actual investment on the table that requires it.

Yes, YC companies are Delaware C corps.

Because YC’s investment actually requires it. And because YC’s investment requires it, YC helps YC companies set one up.

A Delaware C Corp is not do it yourself. It is something that your lawyers and accountants set up on your behalf.

Not having lawyers and accountants is a good indication that a Delaware C corp is inappropriate right now.

It is not like an LLC, where $100 and three pages of boiler plate can be enough.
I think the frontend/backend distinction is mainly from the Web Development culture (that has unfortunately permeated everything else in software); it makes little sense if you're working on desktop applications, for example.
> Adding noise isn't deniable.

Noise should be added either in a fixed pattern or randomly. Eg consider a disk of size 2^N, with volumes of size 2^(N-1), 2^(N-2), 2^(N-3), ..., 2^(log minsize). Blocks would be written such that every second block is for volume -1, every fourth block is for volume -2, etc. Data for lower volumes should be queued to be written in turn; when the turn comes up, if the queue is empty (or less than a appropriately-distributed[0] random amount full), a appropriately-distributed[0] number of new blocks should be added to the queue.

(Note that you'll also need a compaction phase when the disk fills up; I don't think that can be done without the keys for the lower volumes (or losing that data), so you need to be careful to regularly compact while in a safe environment.)

0: This requires some tuning depending on general (but obviously not specific) expected usage.
It seems like CPU peripherals are gaining more and more intelligence. I was reading about PCIe's potential successor CXL and the amount of features that allow peripherals to do their own thing with a minimum of CPU intervention seems to be increasing.

So at some point I bet you'll be basically uploading BPF like code to peripherals directly in order to accomplish really fast I/O. Don't know how that's going to look at all from a post-POSIX API perspective.
Apparently, 600k+ Postal Service workers not included in mandatory vaccination order [1]. What would be the possible reason for this?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/09/covid-delta...
So what explains the syndrome in Washington DC, Australia, China, Austria, etc, etc, etc?

Down the track we'll find that it's due to Workplace Injuries.
My all time favorite award in 1991 for Education:

Dan Quayle, "consumer of time and occupier of space" (as well as the then-U.S. Vice President), for demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education.
I believe total annual solar irradiance is closer to 1.5BTWh/yr.

The 1200-ish W/m/m figure is hitting a flat plate circle, not hitting the whole spherical surface.

Taking 173,000TW of continuous solar energy* times 24h/d times 365.25 d/yr yields a little over 1.5B TWhr/yr

* https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
Comparing absolute numbers is surely meaningless - if the US was arbitrarily split in half, there would be half as many immigrants to each half, but that wouldn't mean the US was suddenly half as attractive to immigrate to.
You'd think anytime the French did anything that messed with the Brits would be celebrated. Sure, it also helped the Yanks, but you don't have to care about that part. That sounds pretty French to me
You mean the “Thielian” outlook on capitalism is as bad as everyone said it was? Who’d a thunk …
I am a self taught programmer who first learned python and then learned Haskell. A lot of concepts in python were difficult when I was new and the same is true for Haskell. I found the Haskell community to be very welcoming and very willing to explain their terms and the reasoning behind them, and I dont find the negative characterizing from you and others about them to be true at all. That's why it really bothers me how you and others are so willing to slander a whole community based on what I perceive as not the truth at all. That's also why I wonder if you would be ok with non-programmers making the same generalization about programmers.

In my experience concepts like Functors, Monoids, Monads etc. are difficult, not because they are complicated, but because they are seemingly too simple. A Functor is pretty much something you can map, and every programmer knows list.map, so what's the point? The point is that when you have some infrastructure around using them, then you can see new ways of using them, and you can see that mapping makes sense over a lot more structures than lists. Even over something like a function "a -> b". The problem is that non-functional languages doesn't have this infrastructure around them, so they are not very useful, and so its difficult for people not using functional languages to understand what the point is. I dont really think there is any way to get past this unfortunately and the only way to get comfortable with the terms is to program in a functional language.
> “Product-first” engineers are obsessed with using code to solve a user problem and they see code as just a means to an end.

> “Code-first” engineers are obsessed with the abstractions, architecture, tools and libraries in the code. Elegant code is the end.

Then aren't basically all professional software engineers "product-first" engineers?

Consumers or clients are the users to "product" engineers, who in turn are the users to "infrastructure" engineers. If the infrastructure engineers spend their time building elegant abstractions, tools, and libraries that don't solve the product engineers' problems, the product engineers will get their infrastructure needs met elsewhere (i.e. off the shelve, roll their own, or outsource) and the infrastructure engineers won't be necessary.

(I'm not arguing against infrastructure engineers per se, just that their primary goal isn't elegant code.)
Interesting- The benefits you mention are primarily physiological.

I would argue that if building strength, clarity, and focus is someone's main goal then this could be just as easily achieved by regular routine exercise like a calisthenics or bodyweight program with a healthy diet to boot.
At least this way you can realise the benefits much quicker than a year or two.

I can't speak to the rewarding 'zen' nature of Yoga. After close to a decade of full-time weightlifting though, perhaps it has conditioned me into treating it as a sort of routine, mental therapy.
Hmm, this assumes Epic is allowed to submit to begin with. Look at it another way: Apple acted willfully to terminate their developer and business relationship with Epic per their developer agreement, and this was an Executive decision, not a bureaucratic one. So a new submission isn’t likely to result in a “rejection” so much as a termination of the account that submitted it.

I’m not familiar with Korean law, but a change in any law typically isn’t so cut and dry as to obviously result in a new outcome given the same actors and the same circumstances. Obviously Epic will argue that it should be more cut and dry because it is in their interests to make that argument, but Apple also has their own rights and interests to protect and the means to do so.
I don't think you're correct here, but of course I'm not a lawyer. Epic is asking the ban to be undone, an appeal of the existing ban. The ban was for violating TOS, nevermind the TOS presumably has to change for the Korean market. I could see this going either way if it were argued in a US court, truthfully.

I think this is more for optics in the larger anticompetitive suit Epic has against Apple going on in other markets. Korea isn't a small market, but it pales in comparison if Epic can use it as a pry bar to get back into US, EU markets on iOS.
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> As the sibling comment has pointed out, my understanding of UK elections is fine.

‘Every’ is not the same as ‘on average’.

> You appear to be arguing that the only way to hold the BBC accountable is to convince Parliament to entirely abolish it, which is rather making my point for me. That is the most limited form of accountability imaginable.

‘There are mechanisms other than accountability’ does in fact appear above. And no, this is simply untrue: the BBC can also be reformed by an act of parliament, or, say, turned into a Quango to farm garlic.

> https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1...

> "YouGov figures show British trust in the press to tell the truth has fallen, with less than half believing BBC news journalists are honest and impartial."

First of all the BBC suddenly looks rather special according to YouGov (see e.g. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/media/articles-reports/2020/04/2...) for a longer perspective. Second, ‘not much’ is a pretty vague category and not trusting journos much to tell the truth could quite easily encompass still thinking that the Beeb is still all right given the alternatives. This is also confirmed by e.g. this: https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/bbc-most-trusted-news....

> If you genuinely believe the "supply chain" for two pieces of bread with some stuff in between could have been disrupted by Brexit then you're exactly the sort of person the BBC is pandering to, which is probably why you don't see the problems.

I can’t tell whether you’re joking. The article read:

> Sandwiches would be one of the first victims of a breakdown in the food supply chain in the event of a disorderly no-deal Brexit, according to a senior grocery executive.

This is, simply, er, true. If goods were delayed for a week at the border, we would have a lot of rotten tomatoes and not very much to put in our sandwiches. This seems to be some sort of weird reaction to catastrophising about Brexit where somehow Brexit has no effect on supply chains whatsoever. A ‘disorderly no-deal Brexit’ would have been precisely that.

> There is nothing special about the BBC beyond its archaic funding model. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, it is being regularly beaten by Netflix, Amazon and other larger scale content producers.

Only somebody who does not consume the output of, say, All India Radio, CCTV, Channel News Asia &al. could say that the BBC is ‘not special’. I find it difficult not to be thankful for the Proms, and for cricket broadcasts without incessant American-style—to be thankful for civilisation, really.
This paper draws its conclusions based on asking people to imagine things. That seems more like speculation, not science.
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Because any criticism can be construed as an insult, which is plainly obvious.

Honestly how did you become so naive? Are you American? What's wrong with you?
The solution is pretty simple, direct low value labour to the internal economy or phase it out, and trade increasingly in difficult products (or products that difficult at scale, of which there are more than you think) as far as foreign trade. It's a fairly proven strategy, it has good odds of working with an already strong internal market.
Ironically, said country with freedoms explicitly guaranteed by a constitutional decree rubber-stamped the German constitution that allowed for this.
"Epic has asked Apple to restore our Fortnite developer account"
Stabilisers! People take them for granted. Typical strength training is usually lack-lustre in building these. This benefit is not unique to yoga, though.
Virtual particles are the universes equivalent of local variables inside a function. Parameters go in, results come out, but what stays in that local context still existed even if they didn't have global scope.
That's pretty cool. The first computing experience I remember is playing Hunt the Wumpus with my dad using a KIM-1 when I was little. Might have to try it out again, 40 years later.
I had a VC friend who switched to an iPhone, from Android, because of FOMO on Clubhouse. Now, after he realized that Clubhouse has naturally degenerated into a bunch of random people spouting off, with only a few rare pockets of quality content, he won't admit he switched to iPhone because of Clubhouse.
If China invaded Taiwan, Europe would stand together with the US on any retaliation. It would be the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait all over again, geopolitically. China would be cut off dead from the global economy, no matter the cost. I don’t think it would be practical to liberate Taiwan, but China would be ruined.
Except China would control TSMC after an invasion. And since the whole world runs on chips this would be unacceptable to the West.
Landfill as an imagined route to sequestration is easily seen through with the right thought experiment.

If you incinerate the trash instead of burying it, carbon does indeed get released.

If you burned enough coal/naturalgas/oil to produce the same amount of energy produced by incinerating, you would release a comparable amount of carbon.

Burying it doesn't sequester anything, if you assume it gets burnt to produce energy. If you burn it, you displace burning fossil fuels.

I wish recycling was more realistic, it frustrates me to no end that out of all those cute numbers that indicate you should feel good putting it in the recycling bin, odds are that anything you put in made of 3, 4, 5 (sort of), 6, or 7 is counterproductive. It just contaminates the good stuff.

But tangent aside, if you consider the plastics to be fuel it makes absolutely no sense to sequester them instead of burning them to displace fossil fuel use, reduce land use, and also centralize a major pollution source (plastics and such contaminating groundwater near landfills over centuries vs a centralized emissions filter).
Would you like to provide some criticism with actual substance, or are you content with vague ad hominems?
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The headline is false. Even says so in the subtitle of the article: "The president will direct OSHA to require either vaccination or frequent testing."
Hell, he's not that well known in the US either. I know in my Revolutionary War studies, the French were pretty much a footnote. Not saying all teachings were as poor as mine, but I know the textbooks I used were used in a several other states.
Right. People presumably don’t start political movements because they’re happy.

They typically do so to affect change.

Change that may well be required, for example, to address problems in said one-party healthcare system.
This is all educational and I appreciate it (genuinely!) but is there any indication such solutions are actually used in this government sponsored usages?
I have a Chinese friend and she gets very emotional, hateful, when Taiwan is mentioned. She told me I can’t talk to her about “that island”.
We know how to make that with immunotherapy for example (the recognize and kill) look at how CAR-T cell therapy work.
> Therefore they have to convince you that there is some information that you could hand over which would satisfy them, and they mustn't over-estimate what information you have, otherwise they are committing to torturing you forever and there is no advantage to you disclosing even the information you do have.

This is a very useful explanation/articulation of the idea here, thank you.
This uses the older/classic haskell 98 features to encode the types.

It works, but with modern haskell, one can use techniques that are less verbose.
I think you are radically underestimating the soft power China has in Asia. Countries like Vietnam and the Philippines are far from Chinese allies, but have little faith in US commitment to the region and have to survive in the region.

There's probably a number of people in leadership positions in the region who accept the realpolitik that is isn't worth fighting China over Taiwan.

> Americans do not rollover when there is blood involved.

Plenty of recent evidence says otherwise.
> But the interesting part of Haskell's I/O isn't the implementation, it's the (pure) API that it uses, and Javascript has nothing like that.

No, I insist JavaScript really has a pure approach to I/O, quite like Haskell. There is literally no side effects except for application state mutation from the perspective of a JavaScript function (if you disregard the few deprecated synchronous API's). And this pure API has proven very useful and distinctive for JavaScript (i.e. through node.js)
That way you are sure it will never take over the world!
I think what you're speaking of here is the separation between yoga (which is typically a very spiritual, meditation focused activity) and pilates (which is focused on physical strength, flexibility, and posture).
No one in particular. Many people agreed about a plan years ago, with various factors they set out to trigger various steps, and those determined that today was a suitable day and no one objected specifically, so it went ahead. That's the most likely scenario.

Xi himself probably spent very little time on this in the recent past.
Why not start with the low hanging fruit? Be an inspiration for Chinese dissidents and topple the Business party (Republican/Democrat).
And the proofs of this one fact are all completely different depending on the dimension. I wonder if there are any prospects of a unified proof for all dimensions.
I think it has a lot to do with motivation.

Some people are more motivated to solve the business problem. They may accrue more technical debt in exchange for important features and increasing revenue.

Some people are more motivated by clean, well documented, DRY code. They are probably going to fight to refactor parts of the codebase to prevent losing revenue.

Most people are probably somewhere in between.
I agree with this. Modern applications in web browsers can be large and sophisticated enough that you have people building out business logic models while barely touching user interface code. I think this is fairly common based on my experience.
This is conjecture--but there might be a difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise in this case.
Does the vaccine prevent you from spreading the disease?