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The nature of modern complex organizations like the United States is that no one person is responsible for everything. You can't so much as get $600 checks to every American without the support of a sizable bureaucracy, let alone single-handedly wage a land war halfway around the world and remake the government of 40 million people.

But that doesn't mean we have to let our sense of morality hold nobody culpable, as if everyone is part of a firing squad and you can't prove who had the blank. Merely signing up for the firing squad shows that you intended to kill, and the responsibility for the death falls on all the people in the squad (as well as all the people who organized it and decided to put a particular prisoner in front of it, etc.), not none of them.

"The US" was only going to war in Iraq because a lot of people arranged things so that it could happen. It's probably true that if any one person decided not to participate, it would still have happened. But if enough people decided not to participate, it wouldn't. And we saw clearly in the last months of the previous presidency that one high-ranking individual can certainly make things a lot more difficult for a president who wants to wage war and that more generally "resistance inside the administration" can be at least partly effective.

I think if we're going to say that an illegal war happened, that people lost their lives because of it, and that it would have been good and moral to try to stop the war, we also need to say that it was bad and immoral to go along with making it happen.
If Italy, ‘we’ probably refers to everyone at the company.
From the article: "North Ayrshire Council said 97 per cent of children or their parents had consented to the new system"

With a wording like that and a percentage that high, I imagine it went down more or less like that: an adult explain to the kids in 5min what this does and how it will be better for everyone. Then ask kids to raise their hands if they are against it. And voila: 97% of the kids agree.
Could CPython take a page out of this playbook and become faster?

Whatever PHP does (I am not a language expert), they are doing it right. Whenever I write projects in PHP and think "If this approach is too slow, I will optimize it later", I get surprised like "WOW... it takes just a few milliseconds!".

Whenever I write projects in Python and think "This should not result in a noticeable workload", I get surprised like "Uhmm.. this takes seconds?".

Python the language is so much better than PHP. But the low performance of CPython is hard to swallow. In the context of answering web requests, there is no room for execution times of more than a few milliseconds. So as things are, Python development is way more costly because you constantly have to optimize performance bottlenecks.
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In a multistate network of U.S. hospitals during January–March 2021, receipt of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines was 94% effective against COVID-19 hospitalization among fully vaccinated adults and 64% effective among partially vaccinated adults aged ≥65 years.
Basically rules to be a "yes-sir" man. Talk is cheap. Do the walk. And that failed at walk will be greatly remembered in American history. He could easily just resigned when being forced to act at UN. He choose to go on and display his wmd nonsense act in the process assisting Rumseld, blow 10+ trillions and gotten at least 8K American boys died on fabled WMD. He knows it is a lie showing he was a hypocrite or don't know which them absolute idiot. Either case, not a trait of a great man.
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Unless lunch hours are different in Scottish schools, they're talking about the 25 minutes the canteen staff are serving the kids. There's another 35 minutes to eat the food.
Ok, so please enlighten me.

> More than half of all Bitcoin trades involve Tether

So how much of this Tether is fake money?

When I buy crypto, I do that with fiat coming from a fractional reserve bank. So basically 1% is money the bank has now, and 99% is lended and "should be available at some point".

This all seems like a system that just begs for a cryptocurrency solution :p. Tether is part of the fiat system, not cryptocurrency. I would love to see someone making Bitcoins or Ethereum out of thin air. Because if Tether is creating dollars out of thin air as you say, that's a serious flaw in the fiat system.
I believe my point is precisely that we aren't homogeneous and that perhaps your perspective isn't quite as ubiquitous as you think.
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The second link claims that it will store data without payment and allow extracting money in the future, with 0 mention of who is paying for the space. This is so suspicious that I almost cannot believe this is not addressed immediately.
Don't mock Burry for being naïve in still thinking there's legitimacy or justice in society.

Just feel bad...for us.
I can't speak to their solution, but when solving an equivalent problem within Gazette, where you desire a distributed transaction that includes both a) published downstream messages, and b) state mutations in a DB, the solution is to 1) write downstream messages marked as pending a future ACK, and 2) encode the ACK you _intend_ to write into the checkpoint itself.

Commit the checkpoint alongside state mutations in a single store transaction. Only then do you publish ACKs to all of the downstream streams.

Of course, you can fail immediately after commit but before you get around to publishing all of those ACKS. So, on recovery, the first thing a task assignment does is publish (or re-publish) the ACKs encoded in the recovered checkpoint. This will either 1) provide a first notification that a commit occurred, or 2) be an effective no-op because the ACK was already observed, or 3) roll-back pending messages of a partial, failed transaction.

More details: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture-exactl...
This is an interesting question. Perhaps I’m a cynic but I’m going to guess option D: allow them to use another payment method but otherwise ignore the lack of consent entirely.
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That's where the online world got their inspiration from. The whole point of membership cards is to track what, when and where you're buying things. Credit card processors also seem to sell that kind of data. This stuff was around even before internet tracking became popular. Now we are moving to using cash less and less too.
I generally prefer flatpak but I feel snap is a bit ahead and for one simple reason: marketing.

Canonical has been pushing very hard for snaps and it shows when I get get official builds of things like Zoom, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains and Spotify but the flatpak versions are just community provided. Some of them tend to work better than flatpak as well because of “classic” confinement. Using VS Code in flatpak and not having full access to the system in my integrated terminal kinda sucks. It might not be better from a security perspective but it’s much better from a user experience perspective and that matters more to me personally.

The said I still use flatpak as well, and prefer to use flatpak if there isn’t a material difference in functionality between the snap and flatpak.
I am glad they all find it amusing... I find it to be incredibly worrisome, and dystopian.
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Phil Donahue was fired for questioning the evidence that was sending us to war.
I'd even say that when playing black against someone of roughly the same or higher level than you, a draw is your goal.
RIP

Is this the reason for the black stripe on HN? Is there a way to click the stripe or otherwise see the reason for it, other than scanning posts for the sad news?
He has written for Harvard Business Review for decades - https://hbr.org/search?N=516164&Ns=publication_date%7C1&Ntt=...

I believe some reviewers of his book say that the book is his HBR writings organized into a book. In case you're not aware there is the actual book Clay wrote as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
i think u read too many "you-must-be-angry-at-this" type of articles. Poeple are not "misogynistic", nor is there much "misogynistic" content online except ofcourse if you label everything as "misogynistic". Most of the times when someone calls something "misogynistic" it's just a person that has a different opinion.

As for the bullying, kids will be kids. Parents should teach their kids to be nice and teach that if people are assholes, you can always log-off facebook and look for nicer people/places. #we-live-in-a-society
The prosocial case for regulatory arbitrage is that regulations can be good or bad but either way are usually sticky- so when they’re bad they’re bad for a long time. Societies, like all things, accumulate cruft over time and without arbitrage bad regulations won’t get reset until govt or economic collapse forces a major reset.

Arbitrage offers exposure to a world without some regulation and people can decide if they like that or not.
>A problem with that (aside from victim blaming)

I don't blame anybody, i just say:

DONT use hate filled platforms who flourish from hate and make no one happy. There is just no point in talking the world and hope that just the most civilized and humble peoples will answer you.
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Somewhat similar anecdote, but my uncle had an aneurysm and he swears to this day he saw his dead mother there telling him he didn't have time to call 911 or his wife and that she helped him drive to the hospital somehow and that was the only way he survived it.
> One of the reasons why all these SV tech business got away with it is the fact that they are all located in US

Well, they could still be (at the very least) prohibited from operating in your country.

Sadly, most of these services (Airbnb, Uber) were also illegal here in the US, but for "some reason" (aka lots and lots of $$$), no one ever bothered enforcement against them. Eventually they spent enough money on bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H lobbying to legalize themselves.

(Then, of course, at least in the case of Uber and friends, once they were established they quietly raised prices and reduced driver income, which were the very reasons the short-sighted public liked them so much.)
Ocean-centered projections are some of my favorite projections to track down. Myriahedral, dymaxion, spilhaus, and one or two others make for fine ocean-centered maps. Students have a new perspective on Mahan's notion of seapower or Mackinder's "unity of the ocean" when you show them one of those.
I was hoping to find that the Ugandan Knuckles meme started on this platform but sadly that was VRChat which seems to be its own propritary system built with Unity.
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One thing I caught from the article was if you feel nerdy do this and be less of a nerd. I'm sure it's not intentional but it did make me want to manage expectations.
> The rejection of anything not deemed scientific is a close-minded approach to understanding the universe.

It's closed-minded by design.

The human brain has an incredible ability to find patterns where none exist.

Scientific methodology, is a way of obtaining a 1% false negative rate, to avoid an alternate approach of having a 90% false positive rate. It's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Is your comment in the context of the Dutch market?
no i mean the self contained HTML (main download) and PHP versions (https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Saving%2520on%2520a%2520PHP%25...).
I see many people here hating on Colin Powell and perhaps there is cause for that. In my opinion though, I will remember him an uncommonly principled man.

Did he have party loyalties? Sure. Did they sometimes conflict with his personal views? Sure. I'll admit that there were some disappointments.

However, his ultimate ability to break with powerful past loyalties that conflicted with his personal views and to speak publicly about this schism makes him a hero in my opinion.

Though he was a staunch republican at the time, there was a brief moment in my life, when members of both political parties hoped he might run for president under their banner. I don't think that can be said of any other modern figure.
Yes, its anecdotal. That's my point.
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He had a fairly popular cable show, and the ratings for it weren't a secret. He was fired as the television networks went on a war footing.
The access time has actually not changed a lot, it's just that transferring the smallest read a contemporary processor would issue - one cache line (~64 bytes) - at somewhere between 500-1000 MB/s takes around 100 ns already. That transfer-related latency has been reduced drastically.
I was definitely sarcastic. But it saddens me.
Outliers in rural Georgia and Ohio notwithstanding, wealthy suburbs are a million times worse than small towns when it comes to using fines to generate revenue. They have so few "real problems" that they have the man hours to spare on boondoggles, they have more people to prey on, their governments are big enough to provide plausible deniability and anonymity to the people deciding to do these things and they have far more resources to throw toward whatever they are trying to do.
We had to pay for school meals in the 70s and 80s. In fact my school had closer to 1500 pupils, and we managed to get served, pay, eat, and play football in our lunch hour. I wonder what new problems there are in 2021 that it takes "25 minutes" (according to the article) to serve all the kids.
How is a career imperialist a role model? Classic war mongering liberal take.
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I wish people understood the Secure Boot spec better. This problem is totally unnecessary. The spec says no unsigned code can run until ExitBootServices is called, but people treat it as if it said that no unsigned kernel code can ever run.
After getting hit by a tsunami. And it was a 1970s design; modern designs would not have blown up, and in fact some other reactors in the area built ten years later faced the same challenges and did fine.

And even the one that blew up released very little radiation to the surrounding area. You'd get more of a dosage living in Denver than Fukushima.
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You've never seen where these brags occur?

See if this feels familiar:

Paris Hilton buys NFT of Hello Kitty! creator's DNA, says "crypto is the future"
Draws are extremely common in high level play, and statistics don't seem to exist for all levels of play, but I'm willing to guess that it's fairly uncommon across all games of rating 1600 or higher.
Aren't you forgetting the massive global pandemic that has surely impacted how, where, and when people vacation? Kinda hard to blame too much "disney-ification" on lack of tourists when tourism is being hit hard every where.
> It can be quite tricky to get right once you get into ownership issues. If you delete an item, undo'ing that should reinstate it. So that undo step becomes the owner of the data of the item, otherwise it couldn't reinstate it. This can already become a bit complicated if you're dealing with memory management of this item. Do resources that the item uses get deleted immediately, or do you want to keep them around in your undo state too? If the resource requires a lot of processing then that may be the only option.

yep, as soon as you have an object graph serialization is the only way to stay sane. Anecdotally that's what I do in https://ossia.io with Qt's QDataStream and serializing / deserializing hundreds of steps is pretty much instant. A nice benefit of it is to be able to provide a "restore on crash" feature: the undo/redo stacks get saved to disk and can be used to go back to the exact state the user left if a crash happens
I think when you look at it compared to the other systems (gold, banking) it is comparable for the amount of value that is moved.
Since she works for BBC, there is no point to throw your real name into a social network, and representing not just you but also the BBC.

If you want to brag about your work especially as a "disinformation specialist" be prepared for some stormy waters.
Nuclear in the short term, Fusion or Thorium reactors long term should be the goal. Get MIT's Spark reactor funded and built and lets hurry up and finish ITER, while we prototype Thorium in some medium sized cities.

High density power generation is the key. Look at all the problems that come with wind and solar: land usage, transmission lines, loss of energy when weather becomes unfavorable, the amount of battery storage you need to manufacture.
Exactly. How many people are being sent wrongful tickets but are unable to appeal because the nature of the error is less obvious?
His lies at the time legitimized a war where hundreds of thousands of people died.
There is a little thing about having to have the ability to face your accuser in our constitution. When your accuser is an automated algorithmic system with the sole purpose of generating revenue not promoting public safety it will be hard to hold that up in court

Many companies that run these systems will drop the fine because it is less costly then fighting it in court as most people just comply, and they do not want to run the risk of some judge ruling the entire system unconstitutional (which IMO it is)
> No one who was against the Iraq War from the onset is doing particularly well.

Would that include President Obama?
I hate that phrase: "They are to be expected"

I expect better. I expect a vaccine that would have saved Colin's life.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avis#Old_French Wiktionary says it comes from Latin.

In English "advise", alas, not used in the common language in regards to mail, like it is used in Polish (and Czech?).
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Decades ago, if you wanted a work-when-you-want lifestyle and no boss, and you didn't know how to start your own business, becoming a cabbie was the obvious career path. And cabbies do occasionally experience unpleasant customers with nobody to turn to for help, so you have to have a thick skin to last in that job.

For whatever reason, in the US the crowd self-selected towards the immigrant population, whereas in many less developed countries it went towards the bare knuckle boxing type of crowd. No wonder that the latter didn't hesitate to use their knuckles on Uber drivers, whereas in the US that rarely ever happened.
People need to live free, not to be held slaves under the least evil dictator. I’m sorry for all commenters here who value pity lives more than freedom.
I swear most of HN barely reads a thread before firing off some half-baked retort. The comment above about Phil Donahue was a reply to this:

>Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world.

Nowhere in the above reply about Donahue was there an implication that people shouldn't protest, or that the virtue of their actions are based on whether those actions keep them in the limelight.
How well hailed is Russ Feingold? Got 'rewarded' by being voted out of office and forgotten.
>Complaints is probably heaviest in West and not South

Not all complaints are treated equally. This policy actually being made effective is due to the grachtengordel and amsterdam zuid elite being annoyed by the partying brits renting nexting door, and all the start-ups complaining the rents are too high for their somewhat underpaid engineering staff. Tourism isn't actually how Amsterdam makes money, but it definately can come at the expensive of the things that make it such a prosperous city (such as the financial district and fintech scene!)

Or worse: slightly annoy the rich folk.

>dominant party under upper middle class, together with D66

Liberal (free-market, free-speech, freedom of religion), conservative (own religion/race/culture first), progressive (woke), socialist (income redistriction) are all different political ideologies. The words left/right historically means socialist vs liberal.

When you start calling the rich upper class of Amsterdam 'anti capitalist' left wing, you sound like a retarted child that spends too much time on reactionary dutch blogs focused on selling adspace to poor teenage incells from villages. D66 has always been the party with the plans that would lead to the highest income and wealth inequality! See any CPB calculation of the last 40 years.

It is also why they prefer open borders, but they dislike AirBnB. Because the extra cheap labor is good for their wealth and stock portfolio, but the drunk brits next door is a slight inconvience.

All the money the socialists (the left, like PvdA) forced the liberals (the right, like D66) to spend on your education, it seems, was wasted.

I suppose you just grew up in a time when all the talk was about immigration and islam, and on this topic the left/right switched sides after the 90ties. It used to be the SP and such that was warning against the EU and mass immigration, but i doubt you are old enough to remember that.

D66 is the most pro-capitalistic party in the Netherlands
in every election since 1966. Obviously, they are the most popular political party for the upper class in Amsterdam, the birth place of modern day capitalism, but I suppose they dont teach that in Urk.
They even make planters built to be bollards.

EG https://www.tymetal.com/crash/crash-bollards/security-plante... or https://www.grainger.com/category/security/access-barriers-a...
Interestingly not far from the semantics you wanted to convey :-)

Collins ...in British English
(əˈvaɪzəʊ) - NOUN

"a boat carrying messages; a dispatch-boat"
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