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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead
> says a lot given the size of China's economy (ie there's no trust in China and they haven't made much progress in that respect over the past decade).

Yeah. I really wonder about this: The Chinese are doing everything possible to undermine their Yuan as a reserve currency. You can't freely move money. You can't open a Yuan denominated bank account easily. Their cards are hard to get/use (although some places are opening up). They didn't make a Stripe/Processing equivalent and open it to the rest of the world. You can't incorporate a Chinese company online and opening a Chinese company is a ridiculous process. English is still not widely used.

And has anybody checked the ICBC online-banking solution? These guys are still living in the 90s?

Most people think China is advanced in payments because they have wepay. But they seem to have just that and everything else (under State control) is still in the Soviet Era.
Note that flushable wipes don't really disintegrate. At least not anywhere even close to as fast as paper. So you should also save up a few bucks for the plumber. And maybe send a Christmas card every year to the local sewer utility workers.
> In fact, the world will benefit greatly from cutting out Russia from the internet! Imagine all the horrible cyberattacks and thefts of sensitive private info, money, ransomware attacks on cities schools and hospitals, and national security secrets stolen. China and Russia both deserve to be removed from the internet. They are abusive malicious actors using their access to the internet to do nothing but attack the responsible internet users.

Can't you already do this if you control your own firewall? You can, right now, block all access from IP address ranges in Russia and China.
Would it be possible for you to contact your customers and agree on a credit system? No finances being moved (because of the war) but you'll keep a track of their charges and after the war settle up. This will be difficult on your side, but if you have access to a business loan will allow you to entirely withstand the sanctions at only a ~8-14% loss if the war lasts an entire year. ~1-2% if only a few months.

Sad news, but in perspective this will always happen. It's one reason why businesses have so much interest in what their government is doing.
If you are one call, that is completely different and doesn't make sense in this argument.

If you are just picking up a call from your boss to work without being paid overtime then don't do the work. Only exception is if you have flexlible working time e.g. 32 hours per month then you just do a shorter day at some point.
Don't discount an updated Neutralize+, which takes the Lagavulin damage down from 20 to 15. Good for the Gremlin Nob fight too.
Yes they do... With no brush, you won't have it sparkling white everywhere under the waterline...
New Hampshire’s Governor has ordered state-run liquor stores to pull Russian vodka _and_ Russian branded vodka from the shelves.[1] So a product made entirely outside of Russia where not a single cent of profit finds its way back to Russia is still removed under the order if it uses Russian “branding”:

> Products that use the words 'Russia' or 'Russian' in the brand name, advertising, or product description—along with products that depict Russian architecture or symbols colloquially associated with Russia—are all considered to be Russian-branded products and have been removed under the Governor's Executive Order[2]

It’s hard to see how that’s anything other than emotional. And, I would imagine, illegal.

[1](PDF)https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/in...

[2]https://www.newsweek.com/vodka-brands-remind-they-arent-russ...
PHP can't autoload functions, only classes. Thus if you wrap it in a static function inside a class you can autoload the the function by calling the class, Pipe::new(...), without doing a require "file.php".
> NATO invasion of Libya

The one the UN Security Council, on which Russia and China each have a veto, ordered [1]?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_i...
I feel like I'm missing something here. Isn't the idea of kickstarter to help fund new projects that wouldn't get support from traditional funding channels? But in this case the stories are already written and Brandon already has a publisher willing to print and distribute those stories? Why would you use kickstarter in place of a preorder system?
2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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We provide the capability that you can disable the SDK in production builds and enable only in the debug builds. And yes we are going to provide the capability using which you can download or share the APIs and events sessions with your support staff.
Maybe Joe can install a couple of US friendly dictators like Saddam Hussein was back in the days of Rumsfeld so then the other superpowers will play for team America as they should.
Lighting a match afterward is not a good idea. The reason that smell is strong enough to overpower poop smells is that it is extremely toxic.

The best approach is to use fresh air circulation to remove the smell. Failing that natural and non toxic smells as from potpourri or scent absorbers like activated charcoal or odor neutralizing agent (ONA) can remove the scent without covering it up with toxic pollutants.
I mean... how different is this from Apple letting you enter payment details in the Music app on macOS?
doesn't France conduct census? I'm pretty sure I had to get registered when I reached the majority age. And, according to other comments, the website used phone books (which existed in France)
As I mentioned, this wouldn't impact any domestic access to any services. Everything would remain available and accessible inside of Russia.
NK is a nuclear power, but not much of a superpower and in many respects they seem like a vassal state of China. But to your point, they are part of a worrisome coalition nevertheless.
I don't get it. By "something big" do you mean another incident of police misconduct? Or the natural, outraged response to that misconduct?

Otherwise how is this catch-22 relevant to the events surrounding George Floyd's murder and the surveillance measures established in response to the protests?
Let's get something straight dude... Western politicians are not dumb for realising "Russia bad" over the past 4 yrs. They are dumb for NOT realising it 100 f'in years ago! Russia has been THE major exporter of evil in the world for over a century now and people are just now waking up, as if the entire RU shit-show over the past week has been utterly shocking and unexpected. Spare me.
To be brutally honest, I don't think the West has given it much thought. It's one of those places that maybe 2% of Americans could find on a map, and even fewer could spell correctly. Turkey obviously has a strong opinion, but they're sort of the odd duck in NATO.
If we learned one thing from Corona pandemic, please take away that censorship make things worse, both public and private platforms.
I had switched to Edge for a year or two but was eventually pushed back to Chrome a few months ago because I got sick of how often they were shoving services I don't want to use in my face.

Plus it seems to have some kind of quality control issue. Pretty glaring bugs were making their way into the stable channel, and they wouldn't be fixed for far too long. There was a several week span (maybe even months?) where in Edge for Windows, clicking and dragging the scrollbar would make the scrollbar disappear and the entire web page would jut to the side. I don't recall ever having issues like that in Chrome, let alone as often as they happened on Edge.

And another minor niggling is the awkward update process on macOS. Chrome can just install updates in the background, then I click a button to restart the browser and the update is done. With Edge you have to do updates through their janky Microsoft updater application which you don't even install manually and can't seem to launch manually. It just appears when it wants to and then disappears again until the next time it decides to appear.
Your plumber's personal agenda aligns with yours: you want the pipe repaired and you don't even mind to pay X, the plumber wants to receive X and he doesn't even mind to repair your pipe. His knowledge is used in your interest also.

Politicians, by the other hand, may know more than us but that knowledge may or may not be used in our interest.
That's what I was wondering too, especially considering there is a helper function that just wraps it. Seems rather unnecessary.

<?php

function pipe(...$args) {
// Retrive first argument as initial value
$value = array_shift($args);

// Call the functions passing $value and assign its return
foreach($args as $func) $value = $func($value);

// Return computed value
return $value;
}

echo pipe("10 WAYS to EAT more HEALTHY",
fn($s) => strtolower($s),
fn($s) => str_replace(" ", "-", $s)
);

Works just as well.
This is an odd comment because it reads like something you would post on a thread about the FBI or CIA. I have to assume you didn't read the article and just posted something in response to the headline. This is a system to surveil protestors and protect status quo among the police. Literally the first sentence in the article would tell you such:

> Law enforcement agencies in Minnesota have been carrying out a secretive, long-running surveillance program targeting civil rights activists and journalists in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Run under a consortium known as Operation Safety Net, the program was set up a year ago, ostensibly to maintain public order as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went on trial for Floyd’s murder.
I've never heard of this author. Anyone have any good recommendations on where to start? Specific book titles would be appreciated (its hard to find the starting point in a given series sometimes for example)
> Only if we had the same attitude against European countries or the US. It really seems like a one-sided stance most of the time.

The Iraq invasion was unprovoked and unjustified we lied about our reasons for doing it if other countries stood up to us maybe we would have responded differently.

I protested our government when we did what Russia is doing I haven't changed my position one inch, maybe no one else has, maybe other westerners are just trying to justify Russia in hopes it will some how justify US actions, it doesn't both countries are bullies and deserve the same response.
The way to read this is:

- they think the restriction is necessary;

- they have considered whether the said rights outweigh the need for the restriction, and believe they do not.
Russia does not invade in reaction to NATO expansion. NATO expands in reaction to Russian invasions. Notice how NATO does not expand militarily. Not once. Notice how Russia expands militarily, every time.
If only they used the profits to build a great economy with more to offer. They have no shortage capable and even brilliant people, but they've got a management problem at the national level.
Seems like a good way to be mysteriously poisoned
You (bouldersharp) already posted this 2 weeks ago. You seem to be very proud about this. But can you explain what the big deal is? I don't understand why anyone would want to use it.
Water molecules block 2.4Ghz spectrum that WiFi uses.

This is on purpose: the idea is to make the common WiFi (and Bluetooth) bands short range on purpose, so that many people within a city block can have local WiFi or local Bluetooth without interfering with each other.

So 2.4GHz over a long distance kinda goes against the design of WiFi / Bluetooth.
Only half-joking: Wait until this becomes part of the initial setup sequence, and you can't skip this step unless you turn off your network connection and wait for it to throw an error. That's what happened with using a Microsoft account vs. local login credentials under the Windows 10 Home edition.
I think DHH has done a decent job navigating some really tough situations. He's always forged his own path which by itself is impressive. I think partially it's just really easy to hate on someone in a powerful position who has been super successful.
Interesting... because DigitalOcean definitely applies canadian sales tax, and charges me in USD.
Not totally sure.

https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451

> Every programmer with a few years' experience or education has heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil." This famous quote by Sir Tony Hoare (popularized by Donald Knuth) has become a best practice among software engineers.
A simple problem with adopting P2P streaming of videos is more in a logistical sphere than a technical. Often in a YouTube video and Twitch stream, there is a sponsor who is paying money for these videos. And these videos need to have some form of analytics or telemetry to see just how many people are watching. If I host the video and you host the video and Bob hosts the video, how am I going to get the view details so that I can calculate the CPM and get paid by my sponsor? The other logistical problem is that these instances just aren't where the viewers are. YouTube is a giant behemoth because they built a place where people can upload their own videos and viewers have a centralized place to watch them. It became so much simplier to tell someone to search a channel on YT than to give them a web address, install a new client (if necessary), and then pray that there are enough seeders so the viewer can watch. And to do that for all twenty (more or less) channels I subscribe to on YT? No thanks. One more logistical problem is more on the technical end of things, but it's still a problem. Let's say that we do make a good go of P2P streaming. By it's own nature, you need to store videos on the device to watch. My FireTV Stick doesn't have that much disk space. And the processor on many streaming devices aren't exactly all that powerful, so running a node in the background isn't in the cards for these devices. One could argue that we could just have a small NAS on our network that could do all the heavy lifting and just send the videos to the streaming device, but have you ever told someone who isn't technically minded that they need to do that to watch your cooking videos? I work in tech sales, and it's a nightmare to tell some people that they need to install software to setup their printers. I'm not going to tell them to set up and additional device for their streaming.

My two cents.
A good example of it would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%9...
> I was speaking more broadly about the retro aesthetic, not just GameBoy.

Yeah -- likewise. And I think you're right about the evolution between then and now about discoverability/playability/difficulty ramps.
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Thank you as well.

I don't know, I know exceedingly little about Russian military. I did not serve.

Every time I am slightly hopeful, I am again disheartened by how brainwashed people can be. Apparently, among the ethnic minorities sent to Ukraine some do indeed support Putin.

My parents grew up in USSR, were aware of repressions and the Tiananmen uprising, and shared this sentiment with me when I was growing up. However, I know some others imbued their kids with nostalgic feelings about the Soviet Union.

When and where I went to school, teachers were more or less independent about how history was taught. These days I hear there are military parades and strong ideological side.

Some people overcome this, but an average person may not be equipped to live a normal life constantly filtering propaganda and questioning everything they see or hear in the media, maintaining independent thought and internal distrust towards vocally expressed opinions by people of status. Especially someone well-integrated, with a mostly positive childhood and no major trust issues.
Regions that are covered in dense fog often.
When I was playing League of Legends some time back I was left with conundrum of either playing ranked with people who were really nasty if they thought you were harming their rank (... but never seemed to get the insight that being nasty might hurt their rank) or playing unranked with queue dodgers and people who wanted to argue about who plays what (learning to jungle means at least you're not going to be arguing.)
Talk about a smarmy comment.

It's about HOW something like this is implemented.

Do I need to provide my CC info to set up a new mac user account? Fuck no you don't.
The point is that the land that was fought over was part of Azerbaijan that Armenia took in a war after the fall of the Soviet Union. You can say that the border should have been something else, but that's the same argument to made for Crimea. I don't think the rest of NATO took Azerbaijani's side because of corruption, you are just cherry picking an incident in Germany and ignoring the fact that the occupation was not supported.

It's very sad and I agree that the second war was also terrible, unjustified and the whole thing would best be solved by negotiations.
I'm not aware of any bank card that charges 22-28% interest (or any interest at all) in the US. Did you mean credit card?

Visa and MasterCard are payment processors, facilitating debit and credit cards issued by banks. If you're upset at credit card interest rates (and you probably should be), your ire is best directed at the bank and not the processor.
Toilets and kitchens, how else would I?

I understand the "red flags" and downvotes. Pointing this out to people is never applauded. Hardly surprising
> where equity is one of the reasons people are willing to take a risk on a startup.

They're not a startup. They're a profitable, mature, 15 year old company of 100-150 people. Working there isn't "taking a risk", so there's no need to entice people with hazard pay.
well i confess there is a difference between brainwashed and braindead, given the result of latest USA election i think we are more facing braindead peoples.

Which could have a clear biological explanation as far as USA is the most diabetic country in the wolrd and diabete leads to Alzheimer (that some specialists call diabete Type3).

Associated with third world education system, and high level of self esteem, it's easy to brainwash braindead peoples such as USA citizen.

We all remember this Collin Powell little bottle of Anthrax.

But what surprise me more is how true american can be so proud of themselve as far as they are such liitle dog of Israel... That's a pitty.
Unfortunately, the massive propaganda campaign may extend into the DOD's public narrative. It did with the Iraq and Syrian wars.
What about the curvature of the earth?
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I don't get the problem. You won't be prosecuted for childporn that happened to go through your node as well right? So why would you be prosecuted for having Russian traffic?
The Stormlight Archive series contains some of the best worldbuilding, character development and story telling I have ever read.

Brandon is also super nice (got to meet him in a few conferences) and down to earth for an author of his magnitude.
I enjoyed that movie years ago, but I think my anxiety of a nuclear holocaust is already maxed out right now.
It does show genres if they're set in the files' metadata.
> hits entirely wrong for me,

It's probably installed wrong. The aim of them is typically adjusted by various sliders and stuff before doing up the bolts to hold it in place.

Better ones have a "ladies front wash" and "back wash" nozzle, with different aims.
What is your suggestion for what they should have done then?

Culturally we need to decide what our priorities are: do we sacrifice privacy and freedom for the appearance of safety or do we accept less promises of safety for more freedom and privacy.

You're right, we can't have it both ways.
They are quite literally even for total (all within 0.1% of others), but if you look at Imports China leads by far.
A 10-day silent retreat is really intense though.

A few minutes a day of calming your mind and being still in your body is a lot different.

I suspect the author's 20 minutes a day of meditation was a bit more intense than just that. They describe voraciously reading Zen literature and also describe strong personal Christian beliefs.

And why would you keep meditating intensely every day after you've started experiencing these symptoms? Wouldn't you want to back off a little at that point?

It seems like people "abuse" meditation the same way people abuse hallucinogenic drugs, losing all sense of moderation and going too far with the psychonaut exploration stuff.

Maybe also some people are unusually susceptible to these negative effects, and/or are unusually susceptible to being swept up in the spiritual quest fervor. I think this is the author's thesis, and fine, point taken. Those people in particular need to stay away from intense practice and should probably seek out a guide. But I think the majority of people don't have this problem.
When talking about wipes they need to mention the most important thing - do not flush them! Even the "flushable" ones are known to cause sewer issues.
pretty sure they could get a court order for you to hand over your crypto or your gold and if you didn’t, throw you in a cage
Well, yes, it is an invitation. But NATO didn't let the Ukraine join, that was blocked by at least Germany. And on during his visit in Moscow, Chanceller Scholz basically offered Putin that Ukraine joining into NATO could be very far in an undetermined future.
Seems unlikely to be a problem undersea, no?
Where does it say that you need to provide CC info to setup a new user account? All I see in the article is that you can now add CC info in the user settings.
Everything you said is contradicted by reality. Charities exist in the free market. The fee market pushes prices down more than any other system. Items that start out as luxuries quickly becomes affordable commodities. Wealth increases and abounds in a free market.
Are you sure your friend is fat, and not just wearing a bulky faraday cage?
The people surrounding Putin are worth much more than that.
Read the first Mistborn, that's a good introduction to his series. The Cosmere is kind of relevant but if you don't know anything about it it doesn't take away from it.
> Chinese are doing everything possible to undermine their Yuan as a reserve currency

There is a decent argument for dollar hegemony hurting America [1]. China has no need to pursue reserve status for the yuan.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-the-reserve-dollar-harm...
I'd start with Mistborn. That's what got me hooked.
My bathroom is really small and I’ve been using a poor mans bidet. Which is made up with a clean jar that I can reach and fill with water from the tub while sitting on the toilet. I then slowly empty the jar on my lower back. The water will find its way to where it needs to clean. I use my non-dominant hand’s pinky to clean better while the water is dripping. I then have a towel for drying.
As a 1 square person, I was amazed to find that some people can use 50+ squares every time...

Are they like eating them or something?!?
Really? I thought paper only was still very much standard practice.

Wet wipes cost money and aren't really flushable, bidets can get germs on them and aren't standard in the US
Clever -- I'll use it. Hadn't noticed it before.
You should seek out the endless articles about "so-called flushable wipes." Or read up about Fatbergs[1] that are often made up from those same "flushable" wipes. Sanitation organizations hates them, plumbers hate them, and you often hear about ordinances and legislation trying to restrict claiming they're flushable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg
Sounds reasonable, source: http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimiz...

Let me fix it.