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Do you support the same sanctions for the population of all NATO countries after the illegal invasions of Afghanistan, Irak, Yugoslavia? For their support of allied invasions in Yemen, Palestine, etc.? I know my country (Romania) directly participated in these other horrible wars, but as a child at the time, I don't feel too directly responsible for not doing more to stop the warmongering of my leaders.

In fact, the sanctions should be even worse by your logic, since the people had much more power to prevent these wars, unlike the people of Russia.

Of course what Russia is doing is unacceptable, but it's hardly alone in the world in this type of behavior. Rather than getting on your high horse and condemning the people of Russia, it's better to send help to the people of Ukraine who are suffering in this brutal war, and maybe as well to the people of Yemen and Palestine and other invaded places.

Also, see if you can lobby your leaders to advance negotiations for treaties to dismantle all nukes - a major weapon that enabled Russia to bully its neighbors.
I don't think so.

Any music can stimulate the release of dopamine and I would argue that white noise would be on the lower end of that comparison. Plus, the amount of dopamine released from listening to music or white noise would be trivial compared to drugs, alcohol, binge eating, nicotine, video games, or binge-watching TV. And, the tricky thing about addictions is that they're easier to replace than to simply stop, so it's important to find a healthier replacement and then try to taper the newer behavior. I don't see white noise helping directly with addictions because of how imbalanced they are as stimulation sources.
> an international ad hoc web-of-trust has to be established

We really need a global ad hoc web of trust. But the problem is that the web links can't be like anything we have ever tried on a large scale. They need to be distributed, personalized and contextual, and all the trend on the software market nowadays is towards centralized, one size fits all and no-choices needed.

I'm more optimistic about the simplification.
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I don't really understand the basis for this comment/thought. I know it's a fairly common one, but I just don't think it tracks reality in any way.

Google has a reputation for taking in a lot of data about user behaviour for targeting ads. That's pretty well defined data though, from well-defined sources, with well-defined semantics. Things like page views.

How would Google ever be able to "hover up all your data" and get any benefit from it? What is the data? Where did it come from? What are the semantics? How are users identified? How is that mapped to users Google knows about?

It's just entirely impractical to do anything with it, and that's leaving aside the fact that I imagine it would violate the terms of service, the contracts Google may have with businesses, and may constitute a significant legal issue with regards to data misuse.

How exactly do you imagine that Google could do this, and what exactly would their motivation be to do so?

Mandatory disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on any of the above and I only just started. My feelings on this are only informed by my previous time as a customer of Google Cloud.
While there is much to worry about over centralization, there are benefits to at least trying if you can consolidate n-m efforts when n is the total number efforts using a queue and m are the snowflakes. It all depends on organization size and whether some costs can be amortized.

Everyone having specialized everything is exceptionally expensive at scale. Here, the key is tower of babel. What Tim should have done is kick start the effort with one or two teams, then organically grown it by reducing operational burden for new teams.

The mistake here is trying to globally optimize rather than seeking different vertical consolidation.

By the way, this is why Amazon has so many services.
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No wars, only special operations.
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Red Hat stopping its commercial services in Russia will not harm dissenters.

Besides the majority of Russians support the war. The so-called "resisters" are a rounding error.

Listen to Ukrainians on social media. They're all calling for total sanctions against Russia.
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Yes, exactly. An overall poor country.
If a country doesn’t want to operate within the confines of international law, does not honor international agreements, does not honor its word and commits war crimes — then the word “immoral” does not apply to any action taken to punish and stop the aggressor. You cannot have it both ways. Either you operate as a Western country, with western contract law, and resolve conflicts in international courts or you go back to 1914.

This narrative of “oh my would you think of the innocent Russian people” is tiring. They’re all guilty, just like all of Germany was guilty in 1945.
Had the same issue. Support quickly sorted it out, but it shouldn't have been an issue in the first place.

They gave me a full refund because they apparently couldn't refund just the NordPass junk, and I took my business elsewhere. Currently using PIA, which ended up working better anyway for what I needed it for (split-tunneling).
We are all already working for your companies and other multinationals.

There is no giant pool of engineers working for "domestic" companies to be poached, other than domestic outsourcing, who already are contracted by multinationals.
Sure, but I think that it's needlessly divisive to pin it on a generation, particularly when I can find counterexamples for each.

I have no issue whatsoever with complaining about individuals who are destroying the world right now [3], I'm certainly not going to sit here and defend basically any fossil fuel executive, but I think saying it's a generational thing is needlessly reductive and doesn't buy us anything. I don't think Noam Chomsky [1] or Bernie Sanders are destroying the world [2], and I don't think millennial/gen-z bozos like Charlie Kirk are helping it.

[1] I realize he's older than a boomer, but I think my point still fits.
[2] At least not advocating for stuff that's destroying the planet. I am not trying to take a directly political stand.

[3] clarification edit.
We should definitely move away from leaded gasoline and housing should not be allowed to develop near airports. Phrasing the conversation around "showering it over the land below" is to the point of fearmongering. The airplanes burning 100LL today consume gasoline at the same rate as an old pickup truck - they go about 12 miles per gallon. Lead pollution today due to aviation is a fraction of what it was in the past and is unlikely to even be the largest environmental exposure for most children.
Smells like one of those pyramid schemes. For a low investment of $10k you can be a millionaire.
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Wormholes help resolve black hole information paradox
The IQ should be defined for the human race, in a time independent way, not for a specific nation or group. This allows us to make comparisons between different times, between different societies, etc.

Otherwise, if the IQ is redefined to always follow the current mean, it can only be used to classify people between smarter than average and "dumber" than average, which is not so useful.
This isn’t much different from the typical JSON comment hack:

{
"//": "comment goes here"
}

Most editors and tooling also know this is commonly use and ignore validation of repeated keys. Unfortunately it doesn’t much help with arrays unless you specifically handle the case (and depending on usage, handle escaped cases as well).
To be fair, Russia _does_ do a version of this extensively, with bots on social media. It still only manages to have some (maybe?) effect on ~30-40% of Americans, so your point stands, the tactic has limited effectiveness.
Yes to per-person guaranteed income. No to flat income (or wealth) tax (progressivity is better so no good reason to switch to something worse). Revenue neutrality: only if, and to the extent, it makes it makes the policy package easier to pass.
The context was the ethics evaluation tool of asking "what if everyone did this?" implying, if everyone can't do a thing, then maybe it's not right for one to do a thing.

Someone misunderstood the purpose off that question, and said that by that logic everyone should have 2 kids. They were wrong about that but not because the number 2 was wwrong. 2, or really 2.something, is the number that everyone has to have, IF they were applying the "what if everyone does X" correctly.

What they were wrong about was a couple things:

1 The question isn't a simple litteral absolute rule. It's a tool that you use along with others to evaluate some idea or action. It only helps judge one dimension among many.

A previous commenter gave the simple example of queues. Imagine you have figured out a trick that lets you get away with jumping every line. The trick works. No one else in the line ever complains that you're cutting instead of waiting for your turn.

What's the harm then? Free market people like to try to excuse bad actions that way. Maybe the trick is you tell a joke, so it's a transaction, the people you cut in front of voluntarily let you and they got a funny joke out of it.

The question exposes the problem, because, ok, cool, life hack, do this trick and never have to wait in a line again. Since it's sound advice, let's teach this knowledge to everyone in schools. What happens then? Does it still work?

This exposes that this advantage you are taking is actually coming from somewhere. You aren't just more efficient at lines, you are benefitting only on the backs of everyone else.

2 In this case the X in "What if everyone did X?" wouldn't be "have exactly 2.36 children" it would be more like "had however many children they wanted"

Because it turns out that people want different things, and so if you just let everyone have however many kids they want or feel they can manage, it more or less works out naturally.

Everyone doesn't want 5 kids, or 0 kids, and so if everyone did what they want, it's fine, and so it's fine for you to have however many kids you want.

You CAN in fact have just 1 kid if you want.

But the thing you were replying to was about the basic math, and 2 was the right number in the context of that oversimplified misunderstanding of "what if everyone did that?" If letting people do what they want would not work out, and we had to make a rule to make everyone do exactly the same thing, it would indeed be everyone has to have 2 kids.
I wonder if Apple's dev tools/swift teams can overcome whatever dysfunction is going on there (see the whole Chris Lattner Swift brouhaha) and release something coherent i.e. a mature swift UI w/ cross compiling support for windows and web js apps...would that give a shot in the arm to getting mac-first native apps that can spread elsewhere? It might take the wind out of some of electron's sails
Why do many mobile versions of sites disable zoom? What's the use case they are solving?
The uncomfortable truth is that civilians will be used as shields by insurgency as it always has.

We are starting to see some of this right now (and I'm not 100% certain) but for instance the alleged Azov battalion operating near DNR/LNR area is said to be not allowing citizens to leave the city. There are footages going around them turning (you can tell from the patches they wear) citizens away from checkpoints as they try to leave.

Like Hamas in Palestine who regularly launch rockets at Israel from top of apartment buildings, it's only a matter of time before insurgency turns to this tactic as they are determined to keep fighting.
If you wanted to learn to lead without the military or consultant banking, how would you?
> Not if standardization is the priority.

Is standardization always a priority?
Could you share what resources you used to learn the essentials of WebGL enough to tackle WebGPU?
Who is "we" here ?
> You're basically asking: Does the dealer's negotiation reduce prices to consumers more than their cuts increase it. I don't think so, at least not for Tesla.

What do you mean "at least not for Tesla." Don't they famously lack dealers, so there's no point of comparison for them?

> as middleman will happily arbitrage prices upwards (see GPU scalpers)

That's certainly true for some middlemen, but I don't think that can be generalized into a rule. Naively, some people think that everyone in a market should act like price gougers, but that's obviously not true, and I don't think the the reason is that there's something special about being the original manufacturer.
There's a subtle distinction that I don't think the article addressed very well.

One thing is doing something like: I know I am angry at you, my reasons are very clear to me, and now, without adding to my understanding of them, I am going to yell at you for 15 minutes, loudly.

Another is doing this: not really being sure what you're anxious or angry about, so talking about it to explore your muddled thoughts and figure it out, in a regular to soft voice.

I can see how they flow into each other and too much of the second inevitably becomes the first. But when capped (like at 5 minutes) - appropriately modulated (not yelling anger) - in a group context (further modulating the emotions) - you could arguably get the benefits of the 2nd without the downsides of the 1st.
Ask HN: Will a nuclear winter have a long term effect on global warming?
Anyone know?
If such sanctions are imposed, then yes. Such sanctions have not been imposed yet.

If software companies decide to suspend sales to Russia, then they might have to resort to piracy and possibly miss out on OS updates.
I wonder if OSS projects start to reject PRs from Russian developers. Since it is a global effort to cancel Russia, I wont be surprised if it actually happens.
Defining “offensive” here as “not defending against an actual or imminent attack on a NATO member or other internatkonally-recognized state”, the NATO-Yugoslavia war of 1999 would qualify as it was not requested by the UNSC at all.

Also Libya was 10-0-5 in the UNSC, with both Russia and China abstaining (P5 abstentions are special, in that they are conventionally construed as negative votes but declination to exercise veto, which is not formally a separate action from a regular no vote.)
Makes sense, since Nikola Tesla said, "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration".

Probably sound vibrations, create an orchestra which is pleasant for the mind, althogh this is pure speculation.

I would love top scientist to do more research in this area.
Car deductions mostly ended this year with forcing ryczałt and having to pay VAT after paying off leasing.
Canonical self-submitted one of their blog posts the other day proclaiming that OpenStack isn't dead. One of their examples was the deployment of Canonical's OpenStack version by the Russian telco MTS. I heard a peep from them regarding their plans to continue operations in Russia.
> Delicense existing installations.

This is tantamount to theft. Yes, I’m sure there’s plenty of weasel words in agreements. But at the end of the day, if you traded X for Y and end up with both X & Y, you have stolen from someone else.
> As he escalates the drama he is largely seen as creating, people who have no interest in drama are leaving.

I've been a Rails dev for about 10 years, and I've always got the feeling that DHH very much enjoys drama, and purposefully stokes it and then escalates it. It's very much been a pattern for him. I tend to just ignore him these days, because whatever drama he's currently stoking usually has very little to do with my day to day usage of Rails.
>>`devPixelsPerPx`

How do?
"In the current environment, it is not in the best interest of NATO or the US that [Eastern European] states be granted full NATO membership and its security guarantees,"

So they told in 1990, right after the fortunate collapse of Soviet Union, that the countries previously occupied by Russians will be not YET ready to join NATO.

Guess what, a little over 10 years later they were ready.

The other thing that happened? Putin happened.

Nothing was promised to Russians.
Yea they can, MKV is just a container. If you open up MKV container via MKVToolNix, Handbrake or MediaInfo, you will see various formats in there. Though, not all audio/music players have a support for MKV and its variant.
That doesn't jive with most of my experiences. The Christian narrative I see is be fruitful and multiply, nature will provide.

The people that I do see promoting this sort of population limit theory are new age hippies, vegans and the like. Recently seems very popular with more college educated folk. 'How can you think about having kids when you know how bad it is for the environment'
Yeah, a family of 4 evacuating and executed during a planned ceasefire in an agreed humanitarian corridor is the same level of sad as Russian citizens who don't even 'accept' there 'is' a 'war' not being able to play Minecraft.

People are dying, many of these people are friends, relatives, and co-workers of people living in Russia. Many Russian soldiers are dying needlessly because one - ONE man is having a end-of-life mental break. One man's pride is the cause of all of this. Just one man.

Period. One man. Blame Putin for Putin's war. If you don't like suffering for one man's tantrum -- call the Kremlin.

I'm sure they'd love to hear your complaints.
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> With any other car you pay MSRP plus whatever the dealer wants to charge.

That's obviously not true. I've never paid MSRP for a car and I've never bought a Tesla.

With Teslas, you pay MSRP. With any other car you pay whatever the dealer wants to charge, which is usually dealer cost plus some markup, which is usually less than MSRP. On some rare occasions you can even buy a car for at or below dealer cost.
NATO completely destroyed the country of Libya.
Then we have better in Poland. I work till 6PM, but from 10AM and have a paid lunch inside. I know no one who works 9h regularly.
Where you able to collaborate in real time, easily share mock ups that are editable with people who care, etc?

Yes, of course you could do all these these things in the 80s, but the added features today are far beyond what was possible then
Intense physical activity isn't necessarily violent catharsis.

I almost never engage in catharsis now, but I do go on half marathon runs when I'm stressed. They're not the same thing... as like yelling at my husband over random annoyances.
I've never managed a restaurant, but thinking about my own habits I'd bet that a restaurant that takes reservations but also some walk-ins almost surely makes more on the reservation guests. The meal is the main attraction for them, often a special occasion, while walk-ins are more likely to spread their money over other businesses (shopping before, drinks elsewhere after, etc.). I bet group size is also higher for reservations; most people know a reservation is all-but-required for larger groups.
I would be surprised.

This is a protest against the Russian governement, because there is no alternative anymore at this point.
Yeah that seems tenuous. Declining institutional trust, and the botched handling to trade liberalization in the 80s and 90s coupled with the post 2008 bailouts probably has a lot more to do with current political instability in the west broadly.
I used to work on the Frostbite team at EA and it was quite the train-wreck. Many game teams spent considerable time moving to Frostbite only to fail and go back to the old game engine, the game teams which managed to move to the frostbite engine were unable to keep up with engine updates and got stuck on old arcane engine versions, the frostbite engine team was split between multiple geolocations and the teams in different locations didn’t get along well and ended up developing silos, and finally there were about a million layers of management in the frostbite team — I heard from old timers that the team used to be much more engineering focused.
Gonna have to point out that both Korea and Vietnam were western installed dictatorships.

In the case of Korea at least, they were fighting off the Soviet installed dictator, but in Vietnam they were fighting off the longstanding indigenous anti colonial movement.
> Because people who "punch the wall" are, according to multiple studies, more likely to lash out and be abusive.

Presumably the wall-punching and tendency toward other physical/emotional abuses are tied to one or more underlying common causes.

That is, people shouldn't be told to punch a wall (for cartharsis) or even necessarily not to do so (because it'll make you abusive), but those for whom that is a temptation or tendency should seek assistance to uncover and address the root causes.
It's not just the arrival rate that is a poisson distribution, but it's also the processing time being a poisson distribution that really sets the table for the scenario the article is addressing. For me, it's easier to understand in a grocery store situation, where customers arrive in a poisson distribution at the checkout line, and that each cart has a poisson distribution on how long it takes to process the items in the cart. That second level of variance is key to the queue buildup, especially as the grocer checker reaches 100% utilization.
Because nothing was promised. It was only told that right after collapse of SU the previously occupied countries are not yet ready to join NATO.
I don't think my summary was unfair. I was only asked if there was evidence for persistent effects. There clearly is, even if just for adolescents.

It's also important to point out that for the adult-onset group they only looked at 1 year back. This doesn't preclude the possibility that longer periods as an adult find different results.
Try Web3

It is simpler and more lucrative and will take almost anybody right now, organizations cant find devs and they are always rushed because the space is so much faster than the rest of tech

lucky for you, ideology isn't a luxury you can afford to have compared to comfortable web2 devs that talk themselves out of everything, go there and figure out what they want
Regarding Chechnya, I want to remind you that you are talking about an insurgency that was very used to commit terror attacks on civilians and take hostages to negotiate their terms. Including hundreds of children.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizlyar%E2%80%93Pervomayskoye_...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege
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Couldn't you make the same argument about being able to perform computation on the CPU?
> As one researcher put it, “Venting anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.”

The analogy holds only if the problem is one that is in some way exacerbated (i.e. fueled by) anger (even if only by growing worse due to appropriate action not being taken due to focus on anger).

If anger is not relevant to the problem, then no. For instance, if you're angry that 2 + 2 isn't 5, venting will not make that issue escalate; 2 + 2 will not get farther away from 5 just to spite you for venting.
I’m against legalization. I thought it was just going to be a humane alternative to putting people in jail. But instead we’ve just broken down the social norm against drug use. Parts of DC now smell strongly of weed during the middle of the day.
This is misleading. I believe the wording was "help"/"assist", not "defend" and I do not believe anything has been formalised?