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>but after Burma's/Myanmar's coups, ethnic violence, atrocities...perhaps even British colonial rule was not quite so bad after all.

Please never ever spout this nonsense again, we are all done with that part of History;

Here is a relevant excerpt from G. K. Chesterton's article on Indian Independence movement;

When all is said, there is a national distinction between a people asking for its own ancient life and a people asking for things that have been wholly invented by somebody else. There is a difference between a conquered people demanding its own institutions and the same people demanding the institutions of the conqueror. Suppose an Indian said: "I heartily wish India had always been free from white men and all their works. Every system has its sins: and we prefer our own. There would have been dynastic wars; but I prefer dying in battle to dying in hospital. There would have been despotism; but I prefer one king whom I hardly ever see to a hundred kings regulating my diet and my children. There would have been pestilence; but I would sooner die of the plague than die of toil and vexation in order to avoid the plague. There would have been religious differences dangerous to public peace; but I think religion more important than peace. Life is very short; a man must live somehow and die somewhere; the amount of bodily comfort a peasant gets under your best Republic is not so much more than mine. If you do not like our sort of spiritual comfort, we never asked you to. Go, and leave us with it." Suppose an Indian said that, I should call him an Indian Nationalist, or, at least, an authentic Indian, and I think it would be very hard to answer him.
Car stopping distances from 60mph/100kph are ~100 metres. 39,888 people died in the US in 2018 from car crashes. [1]

Emergency braking distance of a TGV from 300 kmph (186 mph) is something like 3,500 m [2], carrying ~450 people.

Moving block signalling systems take into account the current positions and velocities of both trains, and generate a maximum speed and braking curve. See [3] for the details, it's pretty fascinating systems design!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

[2]: https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/fra_net/16...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System
FYI: If anyone looking for a label printer, get a Rollo and a Pi.

I sell stuff on Ebay from time to time, and one of my pet peeves is not having labels professionally printed and having to tape them. After researching stuff I decided to skip the Dymo stuff and went with Rollo. The Rollo only prints over USB, so I connected it to the Pi0w. It's so godsend nice, I can just shove it into the closet and print from any computer in the network. There is no software to install, it can print from literally any app.

Wifi QR codes? Print it and stick it on anything. Instructions to use an appliance or recipes? Print it. Freaking love it.

One more thing about the Rollo label printer is that they have some sort of deal with USPS so it's always cheaper to print the label from their "shipping manager" web interface. I haven't even shipped 30 packages from the time I got it two years ago and the printer already made the money I paid for it back.
Theft is such a massive issue. I pretty much gave up cycling because there is just no way to secure a bike that actually works. Criminals come out at night with power tools, bust their way through the walls of the apartment bike storage, and cut your locks at 2AM. They have hoodies and masks so CCTV is useless. Sure I guess I could hide an airtag on one, but then I have to actually do something when it inevitably gets stolen and moves to a dangerous location.
That's the same as on the London Underground, in 2011 they rolled out 30 trains per hour on the Jubilee line and a few years later on the Northern line.

The Jubilee line is 36km long, and each train is 125m [1] so that means there is on average just over a kilometer between each train at 30 trains per hour. That might sound like a lot, but stopping distances of trains are much greater than cars. First of all the trains weigh around 200 tons plus another 70 tons for passengers, and metal on metal doesn't have as much traction as car tires. Even if you could decelerate as fast as a car, everyone standing up is going to end up in a pretty bad shape after that so you need to do it slower. According to someone on StackOverflow passenger trains are designed to decelerate at 1.2m/s2 [2], which at 100km/h gives a stopping distance of 350m.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1996_Stock

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-a-train-to-c...
Be careful there- renters will generally cover theft with a low enough deductible to make it worth it, but homeowners deductibles can easily be near or higher than the cost of the bike.
> It's more so that the top comments at the time were all complaining about Apple's design direction and ascribing it all to Ive as if he's some horrid aesthetics anti-Christ who wrecked the company.

Have you ever bought a poorly-designed $2,000 device? Apple products can inspire deep, personal anger in a way that other brands can't because they're expensive and the company's leadership was a combination of oblivious and smug about user-hostile decisions.

Look at the touch bar: it ruined generations of some people's favorite laptops. Ive isn't the anti-Christ, but it's frustrating seeing someone so lauded after making some unbelievably bad design decisions and then stubbornly sticking to them.

It may not make sense to you, but Ive's work is very personal to some people (on both the good and bad ends of the spectrum).
It feels to me like assets all inflated first, and when that failed to pop it was an omen of the future inflation which would follow. It seems like there is a tsunami of inflation that is just starting to hit the economy, and because of the early asset bubble it is too late to find obvious safe havens to protect inflation vulnerable assets.

Your choice at this point, barring some insider information on specific companies, seems to be to have to follow the FOMO wave into an already insanely overvalued market with the hope that you can get out before it all comes crashing down.
Outside of ABS, I cannot think of any safety features a motorcycle has. Maybe traction control if you’re really concerned. Even then, ABS and TC is still optional.

You’re not getting forward collision warning or anything like that on two wheels. Certainly not airbags or a cage to protect you…
The primary use case I had in mind for this was internal business apps.

But a few ways you could hook without any code changes in dbcore: use LISTEN/NOTIFY or equivalent to hook on changes, poll for changes in the DB, "eject" the generated code and edit API handlers directly to call where you want, or just edit the default templates directly with whatever API handlers you want to call.

It's true there's not a great way to add hooks at a configuration level at the moment. But there are still many ways you could work around that.
> But say, I can magically stretch my legs? Or make players not solid for a moment? That's magic from Harry Potter and that's fun.

Sure, that's fun if you're playing by yourself or if it is a part of the game. But if you're playing against other people who don't have that advantage, then how is that fun? Is it fun to cut in line ahead of others? Sure, maybe there's a thrill for a moment, but it should quickly become apparent that you're just taking advantage of other people.

If you want to play against the other wizards of the world but hurt innocent bystanders, then it's a very rude game to play.
Extendable Flatbed Trailer hope is helpful for logistic?

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> Demand doesn't boost GDP, producing real goods and services boosts GDP. You can't spend your way to prosperity despite what any of the insane MMT economists might say.

I appreciate that you feel strongly on this matter. However, the strength of your feelings are less relevant than the fact that different people (who all know quite a lot about this sort of thing) do not agree with you (or with each other). Calling MMT folk "insane" may make you feel good, but it neither refutes their arguments nor substantiates yours.
This is going to standardize headless/SPA Shopify builds. Agencies were selling unknowing merchants on the newest hype and then ended up handcuffed to the agency and no internal tech talent. If an agency is not using Hydrogen (within a reasonable timeframe) I would have to look really closely at why.
Then new entrepreneurs can also refuse to sell to faangs. Parent asked who is going to stop faangs to buy competitors.
I imagine it has nothing to do with security and is more about tracking. A similar failure mode with apple is that I essentially need to own two apple products with the same account to accomplish things that should only need one apple product, like making a free download from the app store.
yes, thanks. i understand the signal. however, if you've ever made a "wrong" fist, you've made this signal. you may not have done it while pointed at a camera or out the window of a moving car, you people have probably gone through the motions of making this signal more times than they think.

you could make this signal with your hand down by your side while being "walked" to a location while in public. it would be much less noticable by the one doing the taking than trying to get people to do it in an "upright" position.
I wonder why not software emulated.
"I rather listen to the hedge fund guys, at least they have skin in the game, don't they?"

Not really, right? They make a lot of money even after they get it wrong?

"Right now, it feels like the supply issue cannot be remedied or solved because of heavy regulations and a stagnant productivity."

This supply issue has existed for, what, a few months? We can literally see the containers piled up on the coasts, is there a good reason to believe that once the backlog is cleared there will be some kind of permanent problem? I have not seen a compelling argument, the original article here doesn't make much of an argument for sustained issues although they give that impression with the headline and the intro.

I will be very shocked if heavy sustained demand doesn't induce productivity gains (which have evaded the US economy for quite some time), but I will also be very surprised if the level of demand we are seeing from pent-up COVID-19 cash sustains itself much longer, a lot of goods demand is going to convert into services demand - if only because of shipping delays.
I'm not sure that's true.

I have little to no sex drive (am "asexual" as the kids say), but I've had intense crushes/obsessive feelings about individuals with no associated desire to have sex with the targets thereof.

I imagine that for people with normal sex drives, both components play a role in initial relationship formation; ie, there's an emotional component in addition to "lust" as conventionally defined.

You could quibble that these (relatively short lived) intense emotions are "lust", as opposed to the "love" of a longer relationship, but that seems to be playing a semantic game that doesn't really concord with how we generally use those words.
Cing through this, I can tell you that you can C C++: https://godbolt.org/z/sWETvsoKd (a demo for polymorphism in C90)

Not only can you do OOP in C, you can also do FP, implement your own iterators and the like.
(Function) pointers are your friend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28378627#28406874

And remember: FP = pure functions (no side effects) + immutable values

Currying in C is essentially taking the address of a function pointer and not calling it. You can do lazy evaluation as well. The Cky is the limit!

Yes, C++ is comfy, but you cannot really do FP with its STL. As STL containers require mutability by default.

std::transform(v.begin(), v.end(), w.begin(), [](auto const& x){ /* ... */});

Transforming the contents of v requires a buffer(!) w. (The rescue: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer)

In Python, this would be something akin to:

map(lambda x: x, t); # t being a tuple type here

This will return another tuple.

Yeah, so these are just some pointers. I just wanted to stress that C can enable your creativity once you get the essence of it.
>Fun is making a computer do stuff using your skills which it was not originally mandated to do.

It's still anti-social behavior. Does the degraded experience of honest players (i.e. victims) even factor in?
It’s interesting the writing style isn’t too far off from today’s writing style. My first instincts would guess the year written was false or it was purposely written in such a way to try to convince us it’s older than it really is.
> Are you even having fun when you cheat?

Depends on the game and on how you cheat. A game of true skill is ruined by cheating. Other types of games might not be. Some games deserve to be ruined by cheaters.

I've played games so ludicrously exploitative I don't even consider them games anymore. They were spending competitions. Yes, I was competing with whales to see who could pay the game company the biggest amount of money. I also fell for their little daily login habit forming tricks such as timer-based daily tasks. I was one of the poor bastards waking up at 4 AM to press buttons in a stupid fucking mobile game! It took me months and about a hundred dollars to realize the stupidity of it.

You bet I started cheating at that game. I admit it proudly. I did it out of spite. I wrote a bot to automate it for me. I don't even consider it cheating, to me it was a cure for my addiction. With the boring stuff automated away, the game was no longer punishing me for not logging in. I no longer felt guilty because I was missing out on meaningless virtual tasks. You know the funniest thing? My bot was statistically indistinguishable from a sufficiently addicted player. There's no way they could analyze some data and say "yeah, here's the one outlier". Everyone played like bots because they were all slaves of the timer.

In the end I never published my hack... But yeah, I had fun making it and I seriously hope it frustrated other people into quitting the game too. The less people suckered into these money sinks the better. Maybe if I had published my bot it would have significantly reduced the amount of addicted players out there, reducing their bottom line.
"Copyright © 1978-2021 Berkshire Hathaway Inc."

Ok the web page looks old but maybe not that old
Whatever comes with should work mostly fine, whitelist unlocks are for those didn’t option a WWAN. All WWAN modems are same, usually they have 3-5 serial ports for modem control, data, debug, and NMEA. My hunch is your ttyS2 takes “GPS enable” command and it’ll start murmuring it on ttyS4.

Refs:

https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/sierra_advanced_gps

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/problem-accessing-gps-data-from-...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager...
No, that's a made up, long after cities, retroactive explanation.

Cities were made so people can co-live and co-operate in larger scales.

In ancient cities people (the people who made the first cities) weren't isolated at all.

In fact, in a city like Athens all life was public, in the sense that private matters didn't count culturally as something worthy of pursuing - it was all about contributing to public life, to be seen, talk, have fun, discuss, vote, participate, in the agora (public market), the pnyx (voting place) and other such places.

The same goes not just for ancient cities, but for most cities well up into the 20th century (just not ones dominated by car designed roads, large non-walkable distances, and/or scyscrapers).

Even in a place like New York, you very well knew your neighbors, and there was a community around the area, street, etc. Kids played together (80's suburbs style), grown ups collaborated, had fun, and gossiped with one another, etc (for example check most accounts of the ethnic neighborhoods, Jewish, Italian, Irish, etc. in 20th century New York).

Much more so in older cities, in Europe, Asia, Latin American, and so on, where most of the living neihborhoods where built as smaller communities, with small low-rise houses, central gathering places, and so on, and people knew each other.
Tcl is a better shell scripting language. Tcl's escaping is simple and consistent, while bash is almost impossible to grok -- just too many implicit rules to fit in my head.
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Not every art deco beauty is forged in blood. Not like people need to die for you to stop installing drop cielings and beige cubicles. We've just decided as a society recently that we value spending the bare minimum. These old architectural works, even just from the 1900s-1940s, were from a different time, when property owners wanted to spend extra on making something look striking and remarkable. You don't see that line of thinking in business anymore. Imagine a CEO spending on some ornate HQ building with stonemasons and gold leaf, shareholders would fire them. You only see that level of grandeur today when the CEO founded and still is in control of the company and the shareholders can only sit and pout. Luxury buildings today come with the cheapest furnishings the developer could find on the wholesale marketplace.
I used to do a 5 mile commute. I didn’t have to deal with any major elevation changes, and it was about 35 minutes. Maybe a professional athlete could do it in 20, but they would still have to wait at stoplights occasionally. You will definitely arrive sweaty unless you are in a very cold climate.
All that said, I consider 5 miles to be pretty reasonable for a bike commute.
Hacker News doesn't really care about product design outside of Jony Ive. Jasper Morrison, Richard Sapper (and his protege David Hill), Marc Newson, James Dyson, Yves Behar, and Philippe Starck are worth reading about. Isabelle Olsson is Google's current head of design, as another example.
> to remain performant, modem sites remove elements that have been scrolled too far off the page

This is done to remain performant specifically when the website thinks infinite scrolling is a good idea. In my experience it very rarely is, with the Ctrl+F thing being just one of the reasons why.
Personally I don't care about the 5c/hour electricity, but I do care about the jet engine fans this will need.

259 Watts max!!
I think you can verify 6 Google accounts with a single number.
Yes, the first thing a kidnapper will do is remove your phone from you because they're aware it can be used to call 911. So 911 is self-defeating in certain situations because attackers are aware of it and will target people in such a way as to avoid 911 being called. However, it still has utility because there are a range of situations where attackers take some time to subdue their victims (such as a home invasion) or in cases where there is a witness unseen by the attacker.

These hand signals only make sense in cases where the attacker already has physical (though not mental) control over the victim and the crime is not immediately obvious to witnesses.

I think this case would actually be one of the easiest for the attacker to prevent with prior knowledge of the hand signal. Most people hardly ever look at the occupants of passing cars and only subset of them would have the knowledge and presence of mind to interpret the signal and not dismiss it anyway. So, a victim would have to have their fist pressed up against the glass for an extended period of time. The attacker, sitting right next to the victim, would catch that in their peripheral vision pretty quickly.
I think that's simply because they don't make 120V models, here in Europe it's easy to find a retailer to buy online.
This would involve filling gaps between the individual street view photographs which are spaced several metres apart, during which the environment might have changed significantly.

I suspect it would be quite the challenge: much harder than making 3D buildings out of several aerial images. If this were feasible, I would have thought Google would have done it already so that you could fluidly navigate the street rather than being confined to fixed points.
Universal War One (comic) has such a device. Spoiler warning, someone invents a way to travel faster than light and hides the fact that it is perfectly capable of traveling through time too. Most of his time developing the device is actually spent putting safeguards around this feature and concealing it.
Google Unveils Knative 1.0 Serverless Computing Platform
Chesterton's quote is a nice one, but that doesn't mean that the GP is "spouting nonsense". They may be focused more on outcomes rather than Chesterton's focus on maintaining national traditions and sovereignty. Both are valid views and both can be debated with nuance.
I like this point, since it does resonate with what much of the anecdotal evidence was, i.e., Zillow offering too much for houses around the country. The high offers would be the ones accepted (and memorable), meaning Zillow would tend to over pay for houses (leading to the rut they are in).
It seems like you're approaching this like a spherical cow, instead of a real world problem. It's easier to discreetly hand signal than to say something.
Posted this as Orwell is one of my favorite essayists (along with Gore Vidal). It's rare to see a free work like this, and it's a great essay.
What we seem to lack is an education.

The Greeks, for example, and later the Scholastics, already had a much more sophisticated way to speak of love than we seem to. As I wrote elsewhere, love can be erotic and agathonic. Within each we can make finer distinctions, and we can speak of various varieties of love depending on the object (love of father vs. love of son; love of wife vs. love of mother). Love is not an emotion, even if emotions accompany various kinds of love. Ultimately, love is a desiring of the good for oneself or for another. We desire the good because it perfects us or because it perfects another.

Our cultural understanding of love is often very infantile, and that's on the milder end of the spectrum. The very idea that you would leave your spouse because you've "fallen out of love" is preposterously childish.
Notes on the Dominican Republic
Sure, if you never have to wait for a stoplight.
Irregardless of how politicized the issue is, it's not useful to "guess" Newsom developed a condition from the vax. It's not useful at all. I'll wait for clarity before buying into guessing why Newsom hasn't been seen lately.

Hell, I haven't been seen lately.
>When you see a neighborhood go up like this from scratch you quickly realize this isn't going to be ripped-up and "redesigned" any within at least a lifetime.

Cities and NIMBYs have to go out of their way, on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of man-years drafting ever-complex zoning laws and BS lawsuits to block any and all market-driven densification, nearly anywhere and everywhere it happens.

> Somebody also said "redesign the cities". Once again, this all sounds good until one starts to attach realistic math to these ideas.

It won't be the government literally tearing down and re-building hundreds of square miles in a one-shot, hundred-trillion dollar effort.

It'll be a decentralized, market-driven effort. All you have to do is have the local city government erase segregation-era anti-density zoning codes. No square foot minimums on apartments, no parking minimums, no Floor Area Ratio requirements, no cap on building height, and dedicate 1/8th of current transportation infrastructure to non-personal vehicles (Buses, bikes, rail, etc.).