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> 30 Pentagon-funded biowarfare labs in Ukraine.

That just does not make any sense to me. Why should those labs be somewhere in Ukraine rather than in US?
After 140 years, these old wire signals still keep trains safe – [video]
You meant on 64-bit Windows.

On most 64-bit UNIX-like systems, long is the same with long long.
I remember this.

Then i have CPU C2Q 6600. And opening one site with 10 tabs i can see CPU spike up to 100% of all cores.

I found "click-to-flash" and some plugin for YT-to-HTML5 and this suddenly fix mine issues.

Mobile flash even didn't works good on high-end mobile devices because consume too much power. Since that devices are limited from their battery Flash was resource hog.
> Americans are tired of fighting everyone else's wars.

Did I miss something, or have the last twenty years have been characterized by the US drawing NATO members into the US's wars?
And nuanced does not mean more correct.
tell me more about this hypothetical Russia+China+NK+Iran axis and why they would be so united in this particular fight?
US has never moved nuclear missiles closer to Russia in Europe after the end of the cold war. Unlike Russia who is today talking about putting nuclear weapons in Belarus.
SoFi Q4 2021 Earnings: firing on all cylinders
A bit OT but Boris Johnson said : "We have to consider how we can all move away as fast as possible from dependence, reliance, on Russian hydrocarbons, Russian oil and gas. "

Which I understand as : governments don't know what to do to get cheap oil from any producer (us, opec) so they'll remove a bit of the imports from Russia and explain to us that if the price of fuel is higher, it's all because they have to leave Putin.

(in other words, they're going to screw us big time)
Ukraine didn't have modern weapons in 2014, but they do now.

Regardless, I don't think anyone has ever thought the post-Soviet Russian military could take on NATO in conventional warfare, but that doesn't matter because they have nukes.
And so there's still definitely a part of me that realizes that, yeah, rationally, you can't just ignore the influence of Russian interference or the flaws in modern polling. Looking back, it's obvious that we underestimated how politically motivated working-class white voters could be.

The thing about meme magic though is that there's so many spooky "synchronicities" woven throughout that I can't help but take it seriously.
I saw some discussion about how in (some versions of) the myth, Tamamo-no-Mae was purified and became good upon touching the stone, not trapped inside it.

Then, they started speculating that maybe her evil and malice were split from her, and they became its own evil kami, and that's what's trapped inside the rock.

The funny part is that it was clear they were making this up on the spot, not constructing it from historical myths. When given the opportunity to tell a story about an evil spirit sealed away a thousand years ago in a magic rock that kills you if you touch it, who has now escaped, which we know because the rock split in half in real life, and who is now presumably causing chaos across the countryside, people aren't going to let minor technicalities get in the way. (I wouldn't let them get in the way, either.)
I see your point for sure. But I’d say Covid was pretty exceptional though.

I’m not sure if crypto counts as major headlines especially if you wanted to find out about it early.

I’d actually see early crypto news as a local interest but local meaning a technical niche instead of geographical.

I still think 99% of major daily headlines won’t affect your daily life. Assuming we ever go back to 2019 boring.
The US is 1 turn away from total disconnection.

Their economy is less linked to the global economy than almost any other big economy, they definitely have enough resources to sustain themselves and Americans in general are becoming more inward focused.
NATO countries exchange soldiers, so that attack on one country is attack on the other country too. So, yes, you are right. And they will want American soldiers still in, so that attack on Latvia is attack on American soldiers.
An "EU army" seems silly. People aren't willing to fight and die for the EU, not in large numbers. For better or worse, European identity is receding. It peaked in the 90s.

European countries should spend more on their respective militaries though (I notice this sounds suspiciously like things Trump said).
Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I’ll try to be as concise as possible. Some details have been changed to protect myself.

I used to operate a website that hotlinked to an asset from $company’s S3 bucket. When $company was made aware of my doing from the FBI, the FBI asked them to calculate the loss amount. They did this by looking at IPs that hit the bucket over a span of 1 month, and the IPs that logged into $company’s service. The number of IPs that they didn’t recognize (about 25,000), multiplied by some multiplier, came out to about $6MM.

The problem: I know how many people I had on my website that hit that asset. It was in the hundreds, not the thousands, definitely not tens of thousands. I know this because my site required a subscription and I know how many subscribers I had. There were (and still are!) hundreds of sites that hotlink to $company’s S3 bucket today, causing them loss, that are free and easily accessible. I can show this.

When I told my lawyer that this couldn’t possibly have been calculated correctly, he said that I’m pretty SOL in arguing this loss amount. He’s not technical so I don’t know if he really understands. Regardless, I’m in the process of discharging him because he’s failed me multiple times in this case so far.

This reeks of all sorts of wrong. $company is an organization known to probably 95% of HNers, they’re a technical organization, and they could not have possibly made the calculation in good faith.

If anyone has any advice, I’d appreciate it. I’ll be checking this thread closely, but I can also be reached by email at hotlinking@protonmail[.]com.
I've brought a couple of low-tech physical products to market in the last few years. There is no foolproof playbook, so I'll give you some advice in no particular order.

- Be prepared to spend 18 months bringing even the most trivial product to market.

- You find out literally everything having to do with manufacturing by talking to manufacturers. Start Googling, calling and emailing.

- B2B bares almost no resemblance to B2C. No one will respond to your emails. Almost no manufacturers will want your business. Even if you are buying components that require customization with cash, they still won't want your business. All you can do is keep annoying them until you find a salesperson that takes pity on you. I was able to get a key component for my first product made because I happened to find a brand new salesman that needed something to do.

- Don't worry about building the thing right until you are very, very sure you are building the right thing. Failure to do so will result in wasting of at least $10K. Spend at least $2K validating any product idea (landing pages, Facebook ads, product renderings, product video). Spending $2K to kill a bad idea you would have wasted $10K on later is good ROI.

- Be as public about building your prototype as you can be. Get involved in communities of people, wherever you find them, that you think would be your customers and post there. If they feel invested in what you built, they will like you and maybe buy it. If you show up after it is done and try to sell it to them, they will hate you. If no one in these communities seems interested as you're prototyping it, then absolutely no one outside of the community will want to buy it.

- Don't start trying to produce the finished product until people are begging you to sell it to them. I am not exaggerating when I use the word begging. If someone tells you they would buy it if it was available, they probably won't. If that person is your friend or family, they are likely lying to you because they don't want to hurt your feelings.

- Do not, under any circumstances, think you can pay someone you've never met to solve a problem for you. (See other comments about you needing to become an expert in everything.) They will to a horrendous job and charge a fortune. If you find a person you can trust, hold on to them like a hungry octopus.

- You need to have customers waiting when you first ship. Build a pre-sales mailing list. There are countless blog posts on how to do it so I won't rehash it here.
If you're going to pay by credit anyway, you can usually open a tab when you start, and then pay all at once at the end. That's how I've always done it, maybe it's regional?
> demilitarize EU member states so that they can't start a war with one
> another as they no longer have a military to directly control.

And how would those demilitarized states defend against coups d'état? If your answer is the police then I ask how does the police decide which side to take? And do you really want police armed sufficiently for that purpose? And trained? At that point, you've got an Army with full police-level access to citizen records, investigation capability, and internment options.
Yes, but..... It emits a lot less greenhouse gas right? Even if we only have 100-150 years, that is a long time horizon for us to figure out nuclear fission which doesn't use uranium.

Our current problem is that we need energy, and we currently have several ways of producing it several of which produce much more green house gas than others. Nuclear looks like a less than ideal solution, but one that we know how to do today, and one that can replace coal/gas in the interim buying time while we get other tech ready to go.
There's something very 'woke' - or maybe 'concern trolling' - about the various attempts to chastise the West for caring about Ukraine more than <name your international conflict>.

Look I'm not afraid to own it, I feel more of a kinship with Europoeans than with other global citizens. Ukrainians watch the same superhero movies, they play the same video games. They are all over reddit, not just on the news reddits but also posting to r/shittyfoodporn joking about their war-zone meals.

I don't feel the same kinship with Iraquis or Yeminis. You can call it racism or a double standard, but it’s human nature. You may as well say I have double standards for caring about my family more than yours.
These are likely not the kind of places they want to join though. They’re gonna have the same leetcode style interviews and likely very bad WLB.
The bad or not feels arbitrary. It's "different".

But I'd be hard pressed to come up with a reason that "customer -> staff" is objectively better or worse than "customer -> owner -> staff".

Same money, gets to the same place.
ah yep, victim of my own "rosy" glasses :-)
So a business in America should have to pay thousands of dollars for a Windows Server license despite our society being the one who makes windows and russia just gets to steal it? Then we have to compete with russia using technology they stole from us?

Why don't we all just keep our technology to ourselves. Or does that not suit russia because russia can only steal everyone else's technology?
After determining the root cause of the software issue, we found that our flight control software was vulnerable to a specific "packet loss" failure mode. A missed series of signals resulted in a chain of events, resulting in the upper stage's inability to recover from its tumble.
Insufficient operational warhead count (and size; how much you can take is an issue here) for MAD against Russia, leading to an insufficient guarantee that their tripwire forces would provide sufficient certainty of an immediate unacceptable conflict.
Meanwhile restaurants can take a lead by putting a big honking notice "NO-TIPPERS ARE NOT WELCOME!" or some such clear message to customers.

Unlike boycott this way customers are given ample chance to behave even if they are not local and visiting first time.
> They’d much rather have America sink into debt than touch the sacred cow of EU social spending.

The US isn't sinking into debt (just) because of the military...

The US is choosing to overspend to help grow its economy and maintain a very lavish lifestyle for its population. It's banking on its currency being a global reserve currency.
I have tried a number of similar approaches (pomodoro etc) before which let us to create an extension to auto-toggle notifs when you focus on coding. Works for VS Code so far. Check out https://stateful.com/@sourishkrout & https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stateful.... If you're on VS Code I'd love to hear what you think.
> I always try to shy away from making things look nicer

Anyone who doesn't, hasn't been burnt enough so far, but will be burnt in the future.
Looking at this code, this bug would could have been prevented if a statically typed language was used.

In addition to, actually using DB-level pre-compiled statements.
https://amp.economist.com/europe/2022/02/28/the-kremlins-pro...
But ignoring it leads to perpetuating an even more corrupt system, no? Bad politicians need to be held accountable, yet we keep reelecting the same ones with the same self serving interests.

Apply the same logic to other organizations. Are there good police? Sure. Are they still good if they ignore police brutality and cover it up? I would argue that would make them bad police.

Currently if you drive with cash, police can pull you over and take it. They split it up with the federal government. You are left with no cash and are now responsible for hiring a lawyer to try to get it back. That is literally theft from the government. Which politicians are trying to stop this? How does legally stealing from citizens reenforce the faith in the rule of law? It doesn't. Rather than trying to blame the person pointing this stuff out for the decline of democracy, maybe put some blame on the people who write unjust laws.
The processors I've used all have an overflow flag that will tell you if an addition result exceeded the size of the register. But I'm not aware of any compilers that will use the flag, because it adds overhead that isn't wanted or needed 99.99% of the time.
That is the exact part of my statement that you quoted?
"over"
My very anecdotal experience has been that all (most?) of the Go fans I know have a heavy Python background and most (all?) of them also have some amount of C experience as well.

From what I've seen of Go, this makes sense to me.
How do you prevent businesses being excluded? Small towns pretty much definitionally have conflicts of interest.

Also, being better than Amazon doesn't make something better than cash.
An EU Army cannot be in the cards no matter what politicians say because anyone suggesting it might not quite understand so much 'why people fight'.

Some kind of Military EU coordination of forces, yes, but 'EU Army' - no. Almost nobody is going to fight for the EU flag. Also, nations want to maintain some kind of control over things like 'Intervention in Libya'.

But - we already have defence, it's called NATO, and it includes Norway, the UK and the USA.

Even with an 'EU Army of Sorts' - there is no clear leadership. Germany has the political and economic power, but little in the way of forces. France is probably the most prepared but are still small. Absent the UK which would probably be a helpful leader ... there's not much there.

In the end, NATO is well designed for that, it includes the US which is important for now.

It will take a decade at least for EU to sort itself out in that area and it may never happen. It also does not need to happen.
*At a discount relative to the insane markup spirits have at a typical bar.

It's not totally implausible that the owner is fully aware of the situation and accepts the status quo as a local maximum of profitability, why mess with standing social norms -- much how most restauraunteurs in the states wouldn't dream of paying a living wage for their wait staff because they know customers are going to tip sufficiently regardless of wages and that enough potential employees are fine with the situation (or prefer it) that they won't have staffing issues.
The UK is one of the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...) which assured the integrity of Ukraine's border.

But that hasn't happened, right? And we don't hear very much about that in the news...

So the least the UK could do is to take in refugees :/
1. Nobody actually believes the numbers of Russians killed coming out of Kyiv, these are for morale purposes.

2. Thousands of US soldiers were killed in the Iraqi invasion & occupation.
And yet I've had two (name brand) LED bulbs die in the past year with <3 years of operational life. The drivers in most of these bulbs are garbage.
Possibly, but it is registered in Amsterdam and listed in the USA. Perhaps it works the Russian government bails them out and takes over as a result.
Not even close. For me, America is a child of the enlightenment. Russia... is not.

For a throrough review of the intellectual influence that enlightenment thinkers had on America, check out C. Bradley Thompson's America's Revolutionary Mind.

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2020/americas-revolut...
Maybe we could get rid of the Gorch Fock [1] while we're at it. A sailing ship in the 21st century, causing repair costs well in excess of 100 million EUR, and killing sailors in training. JFC. A lot of people had to pay a lot of taxes to finance that shitty exercise in futility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_training_ship_Gorch_Foc...
This logic doesn't really track... you think the US would directly invoke nuclear war for the sake of an agreement that includes baltic states because if it doesn't... it could hurt the economy? I have no doubt that "hurt the economy" would be preferred to "destroy parts of the country"
I think the point is that anticipation of the US being committed to defend an invasion if there are troops there would deter an invasion in the first place.
Russian software isn't affected:

> among which is being discussed the suspension of criminal and administrative liability for use of pirated software “from countries supporting sanctions”.
A <<50% majority of the population elected a parliamentary majority to allow India and Ireland independence; it would similarly now be the obvious mechanism to allow Scottish independence, and if there were to be an Act of Union would be the obvious mechanism there. An elected government has the right to pass legislation, and in Britain legislation can do and is everything. Cameron promised a referendum which, not in law but in practice, would be binding. We voted for the referendum, and voted the wrong way, alas.

Brexit is certainly national self-harm, but that’s the right of voters. If they don’t want to use their brains, or to prioritise ends alien to people like me, that’s also entirely within their rights. There is no national consensus that we should move to any other constitutional régime, and in the absence of one, absurd as they are, our Diceyan notions are not so beyond the pale that simply in themselves they are illegitimate. If I am prepared to recognise the Thatcher ministry as having a legitimate democratic basis—and I certainly am—then the far more limited damage of Brexit certainly doesn’t make me inclined to question these aspects of the British democratic setup. (I do have some sympathy to attempts to smuggle in a constitution through the backdoor via the Act of Union and Scots law though.)
Every home cook should have a digital scale. They cost like $20. And yes, for subgrams, you can always estimate 'a pinch', 1/4 tsp, etc...

By weight is more accurate, almost never exceeds the max of a home scale and simply throwing everything into one bowl, taring the scale each time is quicker too.
Russia and the US are allies. Neither could justify their military budgets without the other.
how else do you justify invasion and war?
You're right looking back, but this might just be the turning point. The German chancellor just announced an increase of military spending to exceed 2% of annual GDP, as requested by NATO allies for a very long time; to supply weapons to Ukraine; and to support the EU buying weapons for Ukraine.

As a German, each one of those points is really far out of what used to be the political mainstream for many, many decades, and has broad support. It feels like things really are shifting.
The last politician in charge of German defence procurement failed upwards and is currently the (unelected) President of the European Commission thanks to some clever political wrangling, so odds probably aren't great on that front...
In what world is the failing country that began rationing its food 10 days in is a bear?
Nursery workers haven't worn masks while working for ages. I'm not sure they did even at the start of the pandemic.
France has nukes though. So I think you still have the MAD issue. Maybe France doesn't have enough of a stockpile to destroy all humanity 8x over, but not sure how much that changes the game theory.
They can’t even keep their supply lines moving on open highway. It’s pathetic. They have units that are totally of course and on their own.

Not saying they can’t improve but their best case is starting to look like a many years struggle where they bankrupt their country and lose hundreds of thousands of people and end up worse than when this started.