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> I'm not informed enough about Afghanistan

Thanks for being one of the few honest people on HN.

The reality is that Afghanistan is a failed state that cannot afford a federal governent.

Afghanis love their country's border, but cannot afford to operate Kabul as a capital. So British, Russians and Americans attempted to fill in the void by funding Kabul.

Since the Taliban wants to govern/control the country, they need somebody to fund their federal government, electrical grid, roads, hospitals and universities. So they continue to talk to the UN and the US to get that money, but they have nothing to offer except minerals in the ground and geopolitics.

Afghanistan also is land-locked, so needs permission from neighbors to overfly their countries first. The main value of Bagram is that it already existed and allowed a superpower to fly in supplies securely, so the US should not have abandoned it for another century.

As I mentioned before on HN, when the US polices an Islamic country, they need to be perceived as polite policemen, not disrespectful occupiers. American troops' disregard of cultural local norms in Somalia and Afghanistan ruined any chance of success. Examples are flying around dangling the bottom of their boots, and doing night raids on residences and touching family members - you simply can't act that way under Islam without armed resistance.

To address your specific questions, apply what I wrote against what you wrote. You'll understand what aid means to Afghanistan, and what the responsibilities of the global community are.

The CCP is playing Afghanistan in a very smart, long-term manner. Just take their resources (be transactional) and offer nothing. But that will never fund Kabul, which ultimately the country needs to overcome being isolated little valleys herding goats, if that's the goal.
They also tend to wake up early
The more I use Spotify, the less intuitive it becomes. The left bar is a mess. Playing specific albums, looking up discography for a band is painful. The home screen is less than useful.
Tomorrow, when we will work less, have basic income, and have more leisure time,
this type of list will be very important.
Otherwise, we will be human in Wall E movie
You insinuate that The Intercept is a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. You couldn’t be further from the truth.

It is an independent media company that is fairly critical of both the US political left and the US political right.

Also, you seem to imply that The Intercept had this story available to them during Manchin’s last election campaign and sat on it. Do you have any evidence this was the case?
I find Spotify is riddled with small annoying bugs and antagonistic UI, I'm really really sick of it.

Instead of having a discussion about how it could be improved, maybe we can have one about which alternatives exist and how good they are (tidal, is it?)

EDIT: I tried Tidal, that app has a confusing mess of an interface just like Spotify. Plus they have a "convenient" bug during sign up that may sign up students with more expensive non student accounts.
> Software engineers already seem to be making a lot of money, it is unclear that asking for more will work, even if done loudly.

Software engineers at Amazon, Apple, Uber and others could show solidarity to non-tech colleagues, just like in Hollywood, the Directors Guild barely has any reason to initiate strike action, but doesn't cross the picket line, but instead often supports "lowlier" unions.

That said - money isn't the only thing unions can negotiate: all that industry-wide malfeasance folk like to complain about on HN, e.g. around privacy and advertising: unions could negotiate rules around those.
Spotify going IPO was the number one reason I dropped them on the floor. They now officially care only about profits and since they pretty much have just a single product, this means users are fucked.

I begrudingly went to Apple Music and am missing my cd-ripped/torrented mp3 collections...

Why does the free market have to consistently ruin every service?
So this huge rant is essentially “Don’t buy a Dutch bike because they are heavy and don’t have gears” both of which are not true. Most Dutch bikes have gears, and most Dutch bikes are light weight.

Source: I’m Dutch, bought many bikes in the Netherlands, had to ride my bike 15 miles daily to get to school and back (which is the normal thing to do), and my ass has never complained.

You are also conflating a type of machine (Dutch bike) with many random US issues, such as legal protection and theft. On the theft part, LMFAO - bike theft is insanely prevalent in NL, I suspect more bikes get stolen instead of sold annually, and you are randomly throwing in issues such as lighting and “look how much money I spent on my bike”. I’m happy for you that your identity is so tied up to your biking hobby, but your insight into Dutch bikes is deeply flawed.
The long and short of it is, businesses don’t like sick or dead customers or employees. Historically they’re not profitable.

As an employee its part of your job duties to not infect or kill any customers or co-workers.

A chef who doesn’t wash their hands after using the restroom would be fired. Why would not being vaccinated be any different?
True, people with low income and flashy spending habits regularly attracts the attention of the tax authorities. So a little bit more savvy criminals funnels their black money through a legit company, in effect paying taxes on a little bit of it. Restaurants was/is popular for this (mostly cash). Used car businesses too.
I thought that Analogue required the cartridge to play these old games?

How does that work with this concept of playlists and stuff?
Spotify should have an accessibility feature that shows the lyrics for people who are hard of hearing or have APD.
Actually, it's not that many that have documentation available. /s

But, given that Donuts Inc are the overlord of the internet in terms of (g)TLDs, there's not as many as some might think.

The native whois client on most distributions is on github and contains a self-maintained list of whois servers in case you're curious [1].

It also contains a list of all new gTLDs [2], which, for the most part are registered via Donuts Inc. in the end. It's kinda ridiculous that something like ".gmbh" is owned, hosted, and distributed by an American company in Texas :-/

The interesting part is that some companies like "dotBERLIN GmbH & Co KG" (for .berlin) operate their own whois servers but seemingly reuse the infrastructure that Donuts Inc. provides for them.

The ICANNWiki also has some nice side-facts about registrars if you're more curious about their organizational structure [3].

Donuts Inc. also has some chinese TLDs (like .游戏 or .xn--unup4y which means "games") registered via the Spring Fields LLC company that is a subsidary of Donuts Inc. [4] and [5]

So yeah, I guess I kind of agree with the centralization of the internet argument here.

[1] https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/next/tld_serv_list

[2] https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/next/new_gtlds_list

[3] https://icannwiki.org/Donuts

[4] https://icannwiki.org/.%E6%B8%B8%E6%88%8F

[5] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strin...
Silver nitrate is a known cause of acquired methemoglobinemia.
All-Remote Gitlab Valued at $15B in Nasdaq's First-Ever Livestreamed IPO Day
I have a Brother printer. The ink bottles are so cheap I don't think twice about buying original ink (only saves me less than £0.50 if I buy a third-party ink, not worth it.)

The printer itself is quite well-built, never clogged even if I don't use it for weeks. (I do cover it with a table cloth if not in use, though)

In short, I'm quite satisfied and will definitely recommend Brother printers to others.
Robo dogs with mounted sniper rifles make appearance at US army trade show
I once didn't properly unlink Spotify when I returned my car to the leasing company. The driver taking it back played bhangra for about half an hour using my account before I noticed. Changing the password, unlinking devices nothing worked. I eventually got him to stop by constantly switching it to the Barbie Girl by Aqua and then finally Spotify support was able to unlink it. I was then recommended bhangra for months. Four consecutive Discover Weeklies were 100% bhangra. Now I like the odd track every now and then, but playing less than an hour of a genre should not be enough to do that.
No dislike button is why I didn’t use Spotify.
I'll take 'gorgeous' over 'modern' any day.
As I said in the post you replied to, my job is high pressure and requires deep thought. My team writes a ton of code, and there's an on-call rotation where you're dealing with incidents and grooming training sets for our models.

> ...I guarantee you'll feel drained.

You'd lose that bet. Maybe you are, I however find writing code just as interesting and invigorating as I did over a decade ago in university. I do it at work, I do it in my free time both for purpose and for fun.
I always thought the skip button would get treated as a dislike
It is still mystery to me that no followed in the foot steps of underground gamer to this day.
And how would that mix with losing to a more powerful group which has diplomatic consensus with the rest of the world while maintaining sovereignty and trade with the more powerful winner?

I am not seeing how recognizing Papua-New Guinea’s language history addresses that? I’m not familiar with how its governed or if it has to balance cultures, resources and property with an imperial force that merely tolerates everyone else.
It has three gimmicks, the first is to never look at causes, only at symptoms.

Then use a substance that causes the same symptom (usually not the ailment, only one of the symptoms), and then dilute it away.

So it scores 2 out of 3. But the dilution part is important :)
23 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886276
I hope they don't use where the fsd decides to drive as truth data for those maps.
They do (unless you use the jailbreak firmware for their devices, which is made by the same guy that makes the official firmware under some cockamamie plausible deniability scheme) -- but that's what makes it weird that they would emphasize this incredibly stupid playlist/library function. Since on the official firmware you'll have to swap carts anyway, what difference does it make that you have a "playlist"?
> Nothing is perfect

If logical thinking is, as you say, imperfect, is it possible that your own conclusion that no perfect things exist is itself an imperfect conclusion? If you use this word perfect, you at least have the Idea of Perfect, even if no perfect things exist. This kind of funny talk I'm using about Ideas of perfect things goes back 2400 years to Plato and his Theory of Forms[1]. According to the philosopher-logician A. N. Whitehead:

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition
is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms
It seems like conspiracy theories are becoming occam's razor. Something is being hidden from all of this bioweapon stuff. I don't recall any terrorists having access to expensive labs that would allow them to develop dangerous bioweapons without them dying from it first.
Praise the algo!
Production-ready Docker packaging for Python developers
> everything will be centopercento italiano.

Except the aircraft...
> branding of national airlines is a cornerstone for tourism...

Thank you, your comment made me see a bigger picture.
I will, it's currently a $10k scam. Their cars are pretty amazing in a lot of regards.
As a nascent dev, at least the best advice I've gotten so far was "write what is necessary for you". There are obvious "bad" practices that need to be eliminated early on to make life easier, but for something like this I think the wisdom is more just work with it yourself and find what does or does not work and why.

My biggest "leaps" have been to spend time on code and get the general system I need in place and working, then consult with a more senior colleague on it. Typically, once I've gotten my work to a point where the intended system is clear enough and I have functional code, that's where a more senior review can first take place and:

1. The senior can immediately (hopefully) understand what our goal is here

2. The senior likely has some ideas on better ways to approach it than I did in the first iteration

3. If it does get to matters of opinion, at least I'm lucky enough that my senior is very unemotional about such things and explains why they like their way, but usually can understand why I did something the way I did

And after that, I iterate and I feel like I get the idea way better.

Trying to think about the "right way" from the beginning traps me a lot personally and almost scares me that I'm going to do something wrong. I also don't really feel I "get" why something is the right way until I've done it the wrong way or at least explored the wrong way a bit first.

But again, I'm pretty nascent so you might be talking on a different level. But I feel this experience applies to basically everything with code, and just getting your hands into bad implementations and being willing to rewrite is the best way to find that "right" way for you.
Also, how about giving me the ability to not hear songs with certain words in them. I'm not a tea totaller or holier than thou Nancy, but I really don't want to hear any more songs from the hood rapping about their gangsta money hoes and all the other things that are basically domestic violence, gun violence, racism, gang mentality and "I'm so tough" stories all in one.

Spotify keeps recommending them even though I skip nearly every one of them nearly every time. I'm on premium and this annoys me to no end.
CPUs already adjust their own frequency based on load and temperature (maybe with some help from kernel drivers). It would be nice if the README explained how this tool is different from that.
The text leaves a lot to be desired.

It seems to be an OS designed to interact with FPGA chips.

Whats not explained is why this is better than using other OSs for the same goal, and why this is definitively better than using software emulation (which seems fine to me as an outisder for anything ive wanted in this space).

This is the information i need to decide if it can be 'definitive' and 'conclusive' compared to other options which is their stated design goal.

'Library of alexandria' is another red herring of copy text. A library is about providing access to information, which AFAIK the data (games here) are available in lots of places already
I watched some of the talks last night and even as someone who doesn't know anything about game design beyond a few YouTube videos, it's been really interesting and engaging! Huge props to the speakers and organizers.
Boiling water in a pot without the lid on is a beginners mistake. The fix is easy, obvious and the gains are significant. Claiming that it eventually works anyway is setting a low standard.

With code the factor can often be several magnitudes larger than the example above. Like using O(N*N) where O(N) is the norm, spawning a thread for every function call, doing rpc for things that should be local, and so on.

These things are bad practices and it’s ok to call them mistakes. Beginners will make mistakes and that is acceptable. Everybody learns.
You'd need some added restraints to make it possibly plausible. 'Best among affordable 2-food diets', maybe. Which is quite different.
The site keeps crashing on iOS. They may be doing stuff.
Agreed. A lot is wrong about Spotify, but the recommendations are superb.
In my country, it seems inkjet printers with tanks are quick replacing printers with cartridges.

The reason being people in my country don't really care about warranty, would go out and buy a cheap cartridge-based printer, then bring that printer to some hack shops that will "convert" that printer into a tank-based one, allowing you to use any third-party ink.

So manufacturers keep absorbing loss on their lower-than-cost printers and couldn't make a profit from ink sales.

That's why cartridge-based printers are slowly being phased out for ink tank printers... So manufacturers can grab profit directly from printer sales :-)
One thing the author missed was the early BBS warez scene. Some people would use war dialers not to find open modems, but to systematically hack long distance calling card codes from the phone company and private companies. It would call the main number, then sequentially or randomly enter codes, then enter a target phone number like a BBS. If a modem picked up, the code worked and it would save it. If not, after x seconds it would hang up and start over. You'd leave it running overnight and maybe get a code or two, or none. They might last a few hours or a few weeks. There were also plenty of sites where people would post the codes, but those would usually get shut down pretty quick so best to hack your own. This would allow you basically free (to you) long distance access which you'd then use to connect to long distance bbs's to download games. This was mid 80's and started with Vic20/C64/Amiga as well as 286's when IBM's/Clones started hitting the streets. Then the internet became a thing and everyone moved to ftp's and hacking permissions to make hidden directories.
Thanks. Wow, what a beautifully done online-magazine. (A ~ 20 person operation)

RSS Feeds: [https://www.hakaimagazine.com/rss-feeds/]

Lots of YT videos too. [https://www.youtube.com/c/HakaiMagazine/videos]
My experience has been that if work is exhausting, then I turn to games that don't have much of narrative, but which rather on the mechanics. Like racing games, one does not have to think too much, but one has to be alert and focused on it.
>What's the really common use case for changing the ownership of individual videos? It seems super niche, and seems like a feature with a lot of really sharp edges that will be hard to get right.

What's the really common use case for changing the location of a file from one directory to the other?

>While if you wanted to move all the videos, couldn't you just have moved the entire channel to a brand account, and then moved the brand account to a different Google account?

This blows. Is the word here "just"? Did you read how when I record videos and I say "And you can easily just do [steps that clearly are not easy]" and then it hits me that I'm using "simply" and "just" incorrectly because the steps are not easy.

The above is YouTube specific and requires to know channels and brand accounts. We're talking about moving something from A to B in the same context: like a file from one directory to the other on your interface, you should be able to move a video from one account to the other.
I don’t see it happening under the Democrats. They will influence the fed to keep rates low while Biden is in and continue to try and push more stimulus.
Family plan allows you to have multiple accounts, but if a single account is logged in multiple devices (e.g. some home device that's playing stuff at home, and your phone in your car) then they would do what OP says... unless they constantly re-log in the home music device (whatever setup you're using) to switch accounts based on who is home.
> though the reliance on milk meant that beef was a rarity

Something fishy about that statement.

Here’s the thing about cows, they cone in two sexes.

If you drink a lot of milk you’ve got to keep a lot of cows pregnant. You only need a few bulls that.

That means you got to do something with the male calves you don’t need for milk and don’t want to feed.

They don’t magically disappear. They either eat them as veal calves (minus the crate) or eat them as bullocks.
Joel is specifically referring to the kind of testers that Microsoft had at the time the Joel Test was written (Aug 2000).

At that time, for Windows and Office, Microsoft had testers who would write their own test plans (and then execute the tests themselves).

This is not the low-paid manual labor you're thinking of where a test manager writes a test plan and then delegates it to folks who are expected to just follow instructions.

The "manual labor" style of testing was/is typical of game dev companies, where it's easy to trick inexperienced kids into working for very cheap or even free, just to have early access to upcoming games and the (mostly illusory) opportunity to land a "real job" in the game industry.
It works. Something sucks, you curse and take notes, then add to the issue tracker with a less honest language.
Oh I absolutely agree. MacOS in general is not very good for power users out of the box.
But will you also need to update it when you move?
Methylene blue was widely used in malaria treatment, and after its relative safety was figured out, ease of access meant doctors went nuts trying it out on all sorts of conditions. And it worked as a treatment for all sorts of things, and was issued to soldiers in the field through wwii. It's a MAOI and shows up in nootropic stacks and discussions all the time.

Makes you pee blue, can treat effects of carbon monoxide poisoning, etc. There were lots of opportunities for someone with blue skin to have encountered the stuff.
Cambridge Analytica had pretty much no impact. There was a study on this done in the UK. Much of the world wanted Brexit and Trump. Random ads on Facebook simply aren't that effective.
>the climate crisis is caused by billionaires and now they want the middle class to pay for the problems they caused.

Please tell us how the social and climate package being discussed here wouldn't make the billionaires pay the most (vs. the middle class), and how everyone got this wrong. I'm not sure how you can explain that Sanders hate them and support them at the same time.
I agree. There's not much use in writing, and I find muscle memory arguments fairly strange, considering the time it takes to invest to learn this way, as opposed to just do mnemonics and understand the kanji enough. If you're learning to drive, why spend time building cars?
This isn’t about ‘95% was unaffected and the vaccine didn’t work for the other 5%’.

It’s about ‘the vaccine does not protect against getting infected and being infectious in over 50% of cases’.
I would not recommend Analogue at all, they deliver half baked products that fail to deliver what they promised and give non-answer when contacting support.

When they announced the NT mini noir restock, they announced it would have support for sega genesis through the jailbreak so I bought it on that basis. But when the jailbreak (which is not released directly by an "independent" party that has access to the internals and all the information needed to release them), the sega genesis support had a very weird mapping making it impossible to play most games correctly (the c button is mapped to the select button on the genesis controller from 8bitdo). Me and a few people complained to support who despite promises of looking into it did nothing at all.

If it was opensource, I could just fix it but right now I have a very expensive console that only does half of what it promised.
What evidence do you have for the claim that Manchin's constituents do not support the bill? As far as I can tell, the bill and nearly all of its provisions are popular in West Virginia.
https://www.filesforprogress.org/memos/bbb-wv.pdf http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/...
You can always negotiate, can't you? I except if the job is on a collective bargaining agreement, sure, but your average Dev job is negotiable, no?

You don't actually need another job on hand to negotiate terms. It's also up to you what you want to haggle over, money or holiday, on call duties, etc.

I think the key is agency. If you have it, you can negotiate. If you're always in a terrible negotiating position like certain blue collar workers, it makes sense to be in a union.

Mind you, I'm not sure if would be bad for white collar workers to unionize. Doctors for instance are white collar and have unions.