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Judaism is not just a religion; because of how they define membership of such religion, it's intrinsecally inseparable from a tribalistic element. Whether that ends up in outright racism, depends on who you ask.
What’s “legal” or “illegal” has always been defined by whichever country has the biggest stick.
The problem with the story is that it is vaguely correct but it makes subtle mistakes.

The problem isn't the fact that the boots are longer lasting. It's the fact that buying new boots is an emergency so you cannot just delay it. It's a fixed cost that everyone has to pay. The rich person can afford to buy both the crappy boots and the good boots and still have enough left over for everything else.
All my devices are set to English. But my bank’s app is in Polish (using the app-specific override), partly because their English translation is mediocre, but also because I’d rather not do something dumb with my money due to a mistranslation/misunderstanding/different interpretation. Same goes for other local experiences. eg. takeway.com — the restaurant menus would likely be in Polish anyway (though I can see some translated ones as well).
Nitpicking your nitpick: “gras” means “fat” and, only in a typographical context, “bold”.
Probably because South Africa isn't as important strategic position for the military
By the 90s the typical American household already had > 2 TVs. Two VCRs would not be that uncommon. It was common enough active measures were taken to prevent copying (as you linked). After all, VHS tapes are rewritable and quite durable. If you don't mind minor degredation you can reuse them dozens of times, or more. People would accumulate dozens (if not hundreds) of VHS tapes over the years with stuff they didn't want to keep anymore. So spare media wasn't usually an issue.

Now, I don't recall all that many copied rental movies, growing up. I do recall a lot of films off TV being recorded and passed around and even duplicated, though. Knowing someone with cable or satellite TV who was reliable in hitting pause/record during the commercials was Important.
> After all, Google is famous for data collected and data-driven decisions. Remember that "41 shades of blue" story?

Data (metrics really) isn’t the end all be all, and in particular the decisions resulting from the data is not bound to be good.

As you say, Google is famous for data-driven decisions, and for instance android couldn’t become the top rated smartphone OS. Their shopping property couldn’t overcome competition despite unfair positioning, their social network couldn’t survive despite all the effort put in it.

Looking at all their failures, why should we assume that here they made the best choice, when at an individual level we see it as deeply wrong ?
MacroVision worked by messing with the automatic gain control by fluctuating white bars in the horizontal blanking interval. Cheap, low end VCRs didn’t have automatic gain control and made much better copies.
Russia looks set to remove trademark protection and has already removed patent protection from JetBrains (along with basically the entire west) - could be related to why now rather than earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...
Jews are an ethnic group, not a religion. (Even if traditionally most members of that ethnic group followed a particular religion, many don’t now).
In the early ($99) days of VHS movies though, I don't believe MacroVision was a thing.

I recall frequenting the only video rental store in Homer, Alaska (ma-and-pa, of course, this was pre-Blockbuster and a small town in Alaska, of course) and I believe they would rent multiple copies of a popular title but dubbed onto blank VHS tapes.

I also had friends and relatives that had a few pirated films. The sci-fi nerds I knew all had "Star Wars" and "Empire" on VHS long before it was either possible or affordable to (probably picked up at a booth at a sci-fi convention).

I know, not the majority though by any means.
Interesting conspiracy theory, but the actual rationale has been shared in another comment: it's an overreaction to a number of events involving marrying terrorists to get them in the country.
About "the enemy", one side is constantly attacking the other, but you might be surprised to know which is which - or, you believe you have justifications. Anyway, my conspiracy theory is that this article purposely omits contextualisation so to drive the opinion to believe that's it's a free act of pure hate, which makes it fall into the "propaganda" category rather than the "journalism" category. And I'm not even supporting this stupid bill, but I've had more than enough of this kind of jorunlasmism which purpose is apparently to tell us how to think... IMHO this jurnolims is not a solution: it's a problem. Again, not discussing the silly law, discussing about the article in itself.
>Yeah, invasions suck, but the war in Libya wasn't to seize Libya and integrate it into NATO. It was arguably enforcing, not violating, the rule-based order. At least NATO has a better argument for this invasion than Putin does for the invasion of Ukraine.

However you frame it, Libya was still destroyed by the NATO intervention on the side of the rebels and it is now a failed state. As Hillary said, "We came, we saw, he died".

It's pretty clear why Putin was incandescent with rage over it.

Putin now thinks (with some justification) that this is a template for Russia. As he eyes up tiny independence movements he has to wonder if they'll suddenly grow into NATO backed rebels with major firepower.

In all likelihood the Ukrainian invasion wouldnt have happened without Libya.
I don't think it's fair to compare artists (painters) to poets and writers. Old famous painters can get away with anything. Deser says older artists 'aren't as restrained by convention;' I take that to mean there is less intellectual rigor in older works (that is older works of senile artists are more akin to finger painting), which art dealers have a financial interest in promoting as works of advanced genius, easier to do with artworks than bad writing.

So what I'm saying is there's not as much difference as Deser suggests between old artists and old writers.

As for physics practitioners, the redundancy in articles I read on subjects like quantum physics suggests a certain amount of stagnation in the research, but it seems to me like we're always finding new ways to learn a little more about gravitational phenomena.
The article mentions DHL. Which is another hilarious case if you dig deeper: I am in Germany but my browser's language is set to English, like the author's. dhl.com - the international website - automatically assumes that I want the German translation (like in the author's case), but dhl.de - the local, German website - respects my browser setting and serves content in English! This is completely upside-down :)
I listened to a Podcast and one of the hosts was a British guy living in America. He had to speak in an American accent to his Xbox One in order for it to understand him. It seemed the voice recognition was based on your location setting and not independently configurable.
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> Yeah, but what is "high"?

"Buy now, sell decades later" is a very close approximation to "buy low, sell high."
China's locking down a city is generally not news. It happens from time to time. Last time was Xi'an in the South West of China.
Libya wasn't a sovereign state. There's no such thing as a legitimate sovereign dictatorship, the notion of national sovereignty doesn't exist in the context of slavery: the people in question were not sovereign.

Any free foreign nations had a moral right to invade the US south before the US Civil War and attempt to free the slaves. Any free foreign nations had a moral right (not a moral requirement) to invade Libya in an attempt to free its people from Gaddafi's dictatorship.

Ukraine was a sovereign state and a burgeoning liberal democracy, which is why Russia had to try to destroy it.
Hmm sounds about right. Years ago I walked from pike place to the ferris wheel and on the way I saw a few “transactions” in the park, and had this uneasy feeling that I was going to be jumped. Luckily it was a group of people in the daytime.
I would assume most of these aren’t interreligious, but beetween Israeli Arab Muslims, and Palestinian Muslims.

As far as being banned in every Middle Eastern country… not true. I know a few Bahraini females married to Brits. Interracial and interreligous. In Lebanon, and Jordan, this happens between Christians and Muslims as well. Which countries would lynch you?
The "blackpill" you are talking about is just empirical evidence collected in a series of experiments. Rave all you want about the incels, but they can be quite scientific when it comes to discovering the reasons for their lack of success with women. And a lot of what they found out in practice, has been later validated in studies like the OkCupid one.
Around 2000, I paid about $100 for a movie on VHS, in order to give it as a gift.

It was the timing that was key: pre-recorded tapes were priced to be sold to rental stores upon initial VHS release, then sold at a fraction of release price a month later.
I think it's actually perfection: it enshrines the conceptual absurdity of it. It's also incredibly sad, of course, from the perspective of judging the political maturity of the human race in the third millennium CE.
it supports, but then you need to find RSS reader which will display those feeds in Twitter style, I tried and haven't found such reader

It would be much easier if they allowed to display mutliple accounts at same time, since they allow it separately anyway already
I'm in a similar boat as you, Switzerland is multi language (German, French and Italian) and quite a few users (including myself) use English as system language.
Luckily by now you can change the language of iOS applications in the settings app. Though guess what... no one knows or finds that setting.
So yes, it's best to let the user decide just as you write.
Having moved country twice I used to get very upset by this.
Now though, I have just given up on google. They seem to have no interest (and no incentive, for lack of un-buy-out-able competition) to improve this. I mean, apart from the occasional vacation, how much of their userbase are really changing location regularly, right? And do those people have any real choice to opt out of using the shitty product anyhow?

They still regularly show me map search results relevant to my place from 8 years ago.
They still randomly switch me to this or that language based on VPN usage or such. Feels like a big middle finger that they haven't even attempted to solve this over the last 10 years or so since I first started noticing this.

At least for search, I have recently switched to Kagi (based on a recommendation from here on HN) and haven't looked back. It's been... *checks mails* Oh, since new year's. Longer than any of my DuckDuckGo streaks.

I honestly didn't expect this to stick, but once Kagi goes out of beta I think I'd subscribe if the price point is right. It's so refreshing to get good search results with no BS. And if something bad creeps in (which happened once so far, a StackOverflow SEO site) I can just block that page from ever showing up in my results again.

So yeah, I use gmail & calendar for work on a separate account, and youtube privately. Apart from that, I avoid their products. Most of my apps on android are from f-droid, I open the play store a couple of times a year. It's just not worth the hassle, and that doesn't even get into the whole privacy & market dominance behaviour.
> Probably! But I don't know what it is, or what its conclusion is, so just saying that it probably exists doesn't advance either of our arguments.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0263-6

30-60% according to a bunch of studies. This particular study puts it closer to 60% than to 30%, which is in line with my own expectations but it's not a settled research question yet.
I think that you correct about Mir/UnionPay, but I absolutely can ensure you that as an ordinary person you can't buy USD cash in bank. You can try to find someone shady or just someone who wants to sell USD to you for a better rate than bank, but it's illegal in any case. Another option is to visit some border country which accept rubles, like Kazakhstan, although in Kazakhstan there's currently shortage of dollars as well.
And then there's the technical audience: I use all my devices in English, as usually the translations are subpar. On the other hand, I expect the local apps (ie, banking, some e-gov app, your package shipping example, etc) to be in my native language, as usually, the translations are even worse due to the developer's budget allocated to localization. Conversely, when I'm travelling and need to use some local app (airline, rideshare, taxi, etc) I hope that it is able to at least have some English translation.

Yeah, please offer the option to set the language to the user.
Never happier to see a media format die as when VHS went away.
Yes! I was trying to find an article on polish objections to Nord Stream 2 a week or two ago and couldn't find anything. Tried a million search combinations, tried date restricting but it all favotrd recency. Ended up finding it as a footnote on Wikipedia
2020/2021 are only candidates for the worst year in the last ~50 years or so, in my opinion. WW1/WW2 were probably much, much worse to live through. They impacted basically everyone negatively (one of the reasons being most men in most countries were drafted). The pandemic had more of a K-curved graph, were a decent proportion of the population wasn't as negatively impacted, and might have actually had improved.
After these articles are public it was a matter of hours https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-instagram-russia...
I never understood why, after finding out that users don't notice the EV security badge, Google/Mozilla decided the best course of action was to remove it completely.

Rather the conclusion should've been that the browser gives the user a warning when attempting to submit information to a website that doesn't have an EV security certificate.

Or at the very least allow websites to use HSTS to prevent downgrading an EV certificate.
This guy is at about #20 in this group. The other also. Not even close to the top.
I'd say yours is as much anecdata as mine. I've skipped breakfast for years at times and the only thing with calories between 10pm and lunch was the milk in my coffee (mentioning it because it might invalidate the whole thing, but not talking about daily morning coffee) and I didn't lose any weight, despite not being overly hungry at lunchtime and eating massive portions...
The US is a country with the strongest Imperial streak in the west, that is true, but youre still comparing apples to oranges. The Russian brand of imperialism is something from colonialist times, and involves eradicating entire populations, nationalities, to replace with their own. They forcibly resettled over 20 million people last century (or maybe that was just Stalin), countries with rich history which simply do not exist anymore. And the Russian society allows this, because the imperialist mentality is so prevalent that the state gets away with it, because they cannot do wrong, and because the mental slavery of a large part of the population is unshakeable.

And just because these conflicts existed doesnt mean imperialism guides everything. If it did, and the US practiced full imperialism they would own half of middle east by now, and millions of arabs would be dead.
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That's a good point: should we include the amount of time viewing the content found by the search engine? I'm not sure but this would certainly bump the time estimate up. It's even more complex, because if I find the right information fast, I spend less time viewing the results, but I actually have a better experience, meaning that there is an argument for an inverse relationship with the time spent on a search engine and the value derived.
Keep in mind that, while you're comparing this to nothing (the way things were a month ago), most of the rest of the world is comparing this to a war between Russia and multiple nuclear-armed nations.

Re-frame things around war as an alternative, like "The CA revoked our cert, but at least nobody is dropping bombs on us." The negatives will be easier to understand and accept.
This isn't even remotely true. Anyone can marry inter-religiously in Turkey. Jewish, Christian or Muslim doesn't matter. Please get your facts right.
So the Googlers in Zurich Switzerland should get a Swiss German version. I'm sure they'd fix that soon enough.
I met one-on-one with Google’s senior leadership in 2000 to talk about their internationalization efforts. This was very early in their trajectory, so I even sat down with Larry Page and chatted with him for half an hour.

A year or two later I’m in Tokyo and talk to a new Google product manager based there. I tell her it is insane that Google serves me Japanese pages on my English-configured PowerBook just because I am in Japan. It doesn’t matter that I read Japanese just fine… Making this determination purely based on my IP address is madness, I tell her.

Over two decades later, nothing has changed. Each year I spend several months abroad, and this is one of the most infuriating experiences I encounter. Google is the offender that frustrates me the most, but they are far from the only company to engage in this abhorrent practice. I am tempted to create an Internationalization Wall of Shame just to embarrass the companies that do this. (Not that I expect them to care.)

Why do they do this? My theory has always been that in any given country, there are far more native speakers with misconfigured computing environments than there are visitors and nomadic folks like me. So it’s merely a numbers game: I may be frustrated, but at least Google and other companies aren’t losing business when folks with misconfigured computers close the tab because they got a page served to them in, say, English instead of their native language.

I can’t say for certain whether this is the actual reason for this behavior. What I can say, however, is that I absolutely loathe this practice and actively avoid doing business with any company that uses geo-IP location to serve me pages specific to that locale. If this frustrates you as well, be sure to vote with your feet!
Don't tell them. They still believe that if they use TLS and some {google, microsoft, cloudfare, etc} cert they are safe.
What an insidious way to justify the action!
There was an explicit mention of protein quality and bioavailability. Both terms are standard and widely used. If OP meant something different by these terms, then fine. There's a minor loss of protein that is trapped in fibre for most plant foods that humans eat.

There is small amount of fiber in tofu, seitan, tempeh or other soy derivatives.

The "protein concentration" was mentioned together with iron, as if it is a problem of deficiency, not in the context of obsessive compulsive dieting by tweaking your macros to achieve the best results.

I am not sure the fiber budget you mention is a reality. There is no threshold where your body will stop behaving if you consume too much fiber.
This is my daily driver for twitter. I would have stopped using Twitter a long time ago if this wasn't here.
> big enough that not even a professional PR firm could do anything.

What an odd take. Just because throwing money at something doesn’t make it go away does not mean it’s a “big attack” or even that people calling him out are in any way in the wrong. As OP stated the big problem seems to be that he persistently tried to regain his old good reputation instead of accepting defeat.
When a cheater wants to continue cheating, it doesn’t matter how much money he throws at PR firms, it’s still fair to call out his cheating.
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Because as long as you can do one, you have no reason to do the other if you are not philosophically inclined to. They are absolutely at odds with each other.
"Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a law denying naturalization to Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or Gaza married to Israeli citizens"

Don't agree with the headline or the law.

They aren't banning spouses, they are banning naturalization of them.

I don't know what other visas are applicable for Israel, in Japan if you get married you can get a spouse visa(1,3,5 year) but you won't be able to get a permanent residency right away.
I agree with your points. I just think my demand curve for search looks different to yours. Might be my income band, or my use cases, or many other factors.
> > Still, the value of a network of iDevices with "default on airtag tracking" is just so huge
> What kind of value is that? We've been living very well without it for decades and it sounds like that tech is a very powerful enabler of stalkers while providing little value to the average person.

I got my shoulder bag, kindle, passport, notepad, medicine, and cdc vax card back after they were stolen from me thanks to airtags.
A _tremendous_ amount of money is spent on public relations and lobbying each year for the past 40 years.
To the contrary, humans have never been nicer to each other or lived more pleasant lives at any point before the present.
> The government's going to say "But we need to take a stand against terrorists / Russian oligarchs / drug kingpins" and then it ends up being used against successively lower and lower degrees of criminals, such as money launderers / tax dodgers / deadbeat dads / unpaid parking tickets, and eventually ends up targeting ordinary citizens.

Yes, absolutely. Unless bitcoin wins, I have no doubt whatsoever that this is what's going to happen.
I’m against web censorship wholesale. Registrars and hosts and certificate authorities shouldn’t have revoked any existing contracts. But they would be within their rights to disallow renewal. And I hope to see people like “NameCheap CEO” who cancelled .RU domains on short notice without giving users enough time to transfer their domains-pulling the rug out from under them..sued for criminal contract breach.
Mikoyan, the guy who started the aircraft design bureau, was the only one in Stalin's inner circle to stay there the whole time, not get executed and have a good career in the next administration after Stalin died. He was the ultimate political survivor.
That's insignificant compared to the list of things safari does differently.

And apple doesn't give ios uses any choice. You are stuck dealing with those differences.
This is not true at all. Freud was a rigorous thinker, and was painstaking with his thought, which he changed as he made more and more observations.

I definitely understand that we feel a huge need to stigmatize him, that there is an overt resistance, its just rather funny to me that despite that we as a culture take so much of his ideas and concepts and internalize them. We get lots of weird dismissive attitudes like this, while not really arguing the thought itself.

Kettle logic was something he identified as phenomena, initially in dreams, but as we all anecdotally know, its pervasive. Our minds do not run on a principal of noncontradiction, but a logic of its own. I think that's profound and helpful to understand.

As someone who has studied and written about Freud extensively in an academic context, would just love to know where you identified inconsistencies in his thought.
The fact that the Arab world united and attempted to destroy Israel through invasion multiple times is not ancient history and certainly not irrelevant.