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>The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless.

Useless in a practical sense, in this particular case, yes. It's not at all surprising.

Specifically the problem is due to simultaneous issues (a) only the Security Council can commit armed forces to enforce resolutions (b) Security Council resolutions need concurrence of its permanent members (U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia), i.e. this what is often referred to as a veto (c) one of the permanent members is violating the charter in a fundamental manner, and certainly will not vote to enforce the charter on itself.

Should there no longer be permanent members of the Security Council? Perhaps. It is likely to change? Nope.
Sounds like ruining the system for everyone because a minority of abusive, lazy, or incompetent students. That doesn't seem reasonable at all, and it sounds like the root cause needs to be addressed.

That minority is not going to be spoon fed when they enter the real world.
In this case, at t=0, the water is cold.
I mean, the article says that puls was similar to polenta, not that it was polenta. Puls was typically made with farro.
True for accounts you follow in Tweetbot, but unfortunately you can't disable retweets for individual members of a list inside Tweetbot. I really wish you could.
As has been repeatedly said, the problem is that small balls of solder can persist in your home environment, which makes it difficult to be sure that you’re not eventually eating them. For example, solder balls caught in your clothes or hair can fall off and land in food or drink that you’re preparing. It’s very difficult to quantify how likely this is to happen, but it’s not that outlandish of a possibility.

Now of course you could be really careful about changing your clothes and washing after you solder. Then again, you could also just use lead free solder, which works fine.
More importantly they need connections to the US government. If you want true sovereignty in the Monroe doctrine sphere of influence, then you better have friends in Washington.
A good (long) recent article about MBS and Saudi Arabia:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohamme...
I’ve recently become a new father and have listening to a Cat Stevens song that your post reminded me of:

“If they were right, I’d agree,
But it’s them they know, not me.”
This is why some people like limited government. Just enough not to have chaos and no more. Limits damage evil/greedy/well meaning idiots can do.
>That movie scenario where the guy has a big presentation, but it's also his daughter's dressage recital or whatever, and if he misses the presentation he'll lose his job? That doesn't happen.

Sure it does. If you are scheduled to present to a major client you can't easily reschedule for next week. Especially if it's presenting something that will have impact. Now you probably won't lose your job if you tell your team why you can't make it and it's legit but frankly you may if you no-show.
This isn't a political statement on the justice of any given drone strikes, but I feel like there is a difference between combatants and criminals.
With that attitude barely anybody in the world would have any right to criticize what Saudi Arabia is doing. The worst examples in Western Europe (and other developed countries) might not be as egregious as in the US but their justice systems have their fair share of issues. What you're saying basically that Americans during WW2 shouldn't have had the right to criticize the Holocaust because of Jim Crow and sending Japanese to concentration camps... All three things are terrible but one is on an altogether different level of evilness (just like what's happening now).
Just for fun by Linus Torvalds. iWoz by Steve Wozniak.

Founders at work by Jessica Livingston is also very good.

On my to-read list I also have Rob Pike’s Unix: A History and a Memoir.
The SEC’s former head of internet enforcement fears how the crypto story ends
The goal of this post isn't to distribute actionable advice to those directly affected by the event. The odds that they're reading a US tech forum are slim.

Most of us here are looking to better understand what's going on in the world when we read articles like this, and the additional context OP shared is helpful to do so
The Wikipedia page on the plant has a very detailed timeline of this 22-year long endeavour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
If we had the refineries for it, sure. With the EPA and Democratic party, building enough refinery capacity is a fantasy.

As it is, we'll need to settle for exporting what we can't use very well and importing what we can make better use of, until we have sufficient battery capacity tied to grids and EVs are plentiful and cheap.
PSH could not bridge demand for long enough. Maintenance cycles on nuclear reactors can be quite long.
> So it was built to be an 'institutionally racially segregated' state?

Yes those damn racist Jews.
If the West had a big problem with the concept it could have idk...not kill all the Jews? But that was too difficult a task the last few centuries. So here we are.
I kept all of my clocks on daylight time this winter. I never had the jolt in the fall and won't have it in the spring, even when I'm sick or hungover I sleep in and still get up in time for work.
1Password Removed from the App Store in Russia
And most of the students are amazingly gracious and drop the issue. But some don’t, and they keep complaining and asking for regrades, and if those aren’t accepted they (or their parents) contact the principal/chair/dean/ombudsperson, who are required to have an investigation.

Reminds me of The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

But it's the other side of the coin

The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly.
> I'm forced to watch every movie with subtitles on

Me, too… but my kids say they can hear everything just fine and please turn off the subtitles. It’s possible we’re just getting old.
> What happened to those of us with 20 years of experience?

If you are contributing purely by writing code for projects, it is still "senior" - maybe a senior "senior". If you are contributing a higher level value, as the sibling comment mentions, there are other titles like "Staff", "Principal", "Fellow", "Distinguished Engineer" etc.
KDE Plasma?
Pretty sure you can change this setting in Windows, even.
Freelancers in Germany don’t pay higher taxes. They pay income tax like every employee. They loose the employers share of social security and pension, but the remedy for that is to adjust rates - you also loose paid holidays, sick leave and all of the other employment benefits, but same - reflect that in your rates. You can opt into pension if you choose to, some freelancers are even required to (see 1). If you don’t opt into pension, you don’t need to pay into the pension fund. Unemployment insurance is similar: you can opt into it when you start freelancing, but if you don’t, you don’t need to pay for it.

(Source: I am for social security and tax purposes a freelancer)

(1) https://www.fuer-gruender.de/wissen/existenzgruendung-planen...
Thank you, those are good examples to put the expression in context!

I personally like well structured data over plain text, but plain text is preferable over extracting information from a pdf.
No I am saying they aren't our ally and have never been one nor acted like one.
They want to use us for their own benefit, which yes every country does, but I am just over caring about everyone else at this point.
I agree; information discovery can be difficult.
My point was that our human body doesn't work by rhetorical reasoning or intuition. There are often things we discover about our immune system that are counter intuitive - for e.g. Using specially developed & formulated vaccines to teach the body to suppress immune response towards antigens (via Treg cells), rather than to neutralize them which is what most vaccines aim to do.

Specifically I was objecting to "Given X, we wouldn't expect Y to happen" aspect of your argument. Its never so simple with the human body! It works in many other domains, and so as a former programmer myself I have to catch myself trying to apply such reasoning to biological systems which can't be modeled like that.
Transmuting the nuclear waste needs energy, it does not produce energy.

Unlike the fission from U235 or Pu239, which starts with high energy nuclei and it produces low-energy radioactive nuclei with long lifetimes, so the difference is produced energy, when transmuting long lifetime nuclei into short lifetime nuclei, you end with nuclei having higher energy.

The difference in energy is obtained from the gamma rays. So the gamma ray source must provide a huge amount of energy, of the order of 1 MeV = 1.6E-13 joule per atom, so of the order 1E14 joule = about 28 GWh per kilogram of treated nuclear waste.
This estimation is very approximate, because the required energy per atom depends a lot on the exact composition of the nuclear waste, but even if it would be 10 times lower for certain isotopes, it would still be a huge amount. After being multiplied by the efficiency of the gamma-ray source it would exceed by much the energy output of the nuclear reactor.

A single gamma photon may indeed cause indirectly more than one nuclear reaction, but the mechanism does not matter. Only the initial and final products matter, which determine the energy consumption for waste treatment.
A form of fake news
You get pension by paying contributions out of your pocket, whereas normally the employer would pay them on top of what you earn before taxes.
We are also projected to be a met importer soon from what I have heard. Keystone wasnt the only project that got binned in Biden's early days.

That said, without an absurdly massive investment in refineries, we would still be exporting a lot of it and importing much of what we actually refined.
Because electricity there is cheap. That is because of the Hoover dam and cheap solar. Fabs use a lot of electricity.
I have lived under autocracy as well as democracy. There is no difference. I realized democracy is not black magic that solves all the problems. Many people think autocracy just converted to corrupt bureaucracy. And, the corruption has increased and spread more rapidly.

Democracy is better due to freedom. But, there is no such big influence on poor man's life, unless there is a radical change like we see in South Korea.
> So let's pretend this has anything to do with any morals or protection of others from bullies, or democracy - or if you think different I'd say your local propaganda worked on you.

Apart from comparisons to what the West did when... insert-your-favorite-conflict-choice-here being more of the whataboutism I expect -- though pointing it out never seems to stop such facile arguments -- as a Danish resident working directly with Ukrainian software developers daily, the war against Ukraine is very close to my heart.

Reducing our protests and plaintive cries to stop the war to more of the din of the political elites or the heartless machinations of the Great Powers is out of touch with the very real fears of former satellites of the USSR and the very real heartbreak of Europeans for our sisters and brothers in Ukraine.
Does it pass the Bechdel Test? I don't remember it well enough:

1. There are at least two women characters, with names and their own personalities (i.e., they aren't extras)

2. The women talk to each other

3. They talk to each other about something besides men.

(If you aren't familiar, an incredible number of films fail - and yes, the 'reverse Bechdel Test' (substituting men for women) is passed by almost every film.)
Yes, but if you are working remotely from a state (or attending an event, meeting customers, etc.), you are performing work in that state. You're not if you're just on vacation.

Historically, most people and most states didn't really pay attention to routine business travel but that's starting to change.
I would like to read, but get a page full about checking my browser and that I need to do a CAPTCHA, which won't load because I have disabled javascript as I initially do not trust unknown sites.
If I had a family trip and it was raining or it was late, I would take the taxi from the station to my home.

I also used the taxi to get home from Haneda - cheaper and easier than taking the train for 5 people with 5-8 bags.
> It's just saying let's fix our own shit first.

Please, what is the logic in this? Why on earth would anyone wait for the US to improve before demanding the same of others?
You point loses out when you realize that Ukraine isn't my neighbor so no I don't really care.
It sounds like A01- broken access control. Simply that judyrecords was marching through record ids and the backend was not authenticating that access. The backend I think they said is a relational database.

This is the most common security issue right now according to OWASP. You have to understand these issues come the fact that likely lawyers oversaw this project and they picked contractors that were "best value" (low cost).

https://owasp.org/Top10/A01_2021-Broken_Access_Control/
Honestly find this hilarious, and a sign of the low experience levels prevalent across the industry, with inflated titles etc.

What should happen in these situations, is someone with enough experience should be able to say this isn't working as well as previous ways, and guide to more sensible practices that suit that companies situation.

This is very hard when 'everyone is a senior' and 'i read this blogpost lets cargo cult it'..

The older crafts industries had masters, journeymen, and apprentices, in a more hierarchical structure, and while more rigid led to much less of the kind of massive waste of effort your post talks about where 'Almost no one could get anything useful done' .. which you've seen at multiple companies!
May I ask how it did help you to better understand the situation?

I cant imagine people going „ I cant grasp whats going on in saudi arabia …. HOLD ON the usa is also killing people … now I understand „
We have completely screwed up market price discovery for energy with big govt involvement and subsidies. The numbers I see everywhere are cherry picked to present a winner and loser.

e.g. Depending on whose point of view you read, solar/wind prices either includes or not: subsidies, storage, land, weather, green label costs passed on to customers, interest rates, etc. Coal prices either includes or not: labor, imports, duties, mining, environmental costs, health costs, etc.

Lately I've come to a conclusion that we can make any of these methods appear equal, higher or lower by shifting the books.

Atleast I'm happy that this article is focusing only on the benefits and outcome, rather than invent winners and losers.
Doesn’t the public have an interest in knowing which lawyers have been disciplined by the bar? It seems outlandish that this is private?
I have taught at college and university in STEM subjects, and also professional corporate training courses on software development to senior and lead engineers for about a dozen <companies you have heard of and use their products every day>. And I will say that universally, every single class runs the exact same way. There are those that want to learn, and there are those that are killing time and will argue with you until they are blue in the face that they deserve a different grade, and they have come up with more excuses and reasons why something wasn't done than I could think up in a decade.

When I used to teach at college and university I would think "there's no way you are ever getting a job in this field" and then when I did professional corporate training I would think "I have no idea how you keep your job, but I do know that if I showed up for an interview, you wouldn't give me the time of day."

You can argue with "well maybe you're a lousy teacher" and whether that is true or not, it doesn't account for the flat out denial and debating, and dare I say it, outright lying, about why the assignment wasn't done.
> Some people have ideological reasons for wanting to self-host, and I wouldn't want to discourage them unnecessarily.

Off the top of my mind, there are only two web things I would strongly discourage people from self-managing whenever possible... video and HTTPS. Of course both are doable, and might be fun as a learning experience or a matter of ideological purity... but otherwise, their ROI is so, SO low it's not worth it (as in, you'll spend way more time and money fixing things than you would ever save having a pro do it).
What is the value of this signal? Thank you! (I always thought that UN Security Council did not have any value because veto-yielding members would always block adverse resolutions. If there is any value in the UN Security Council I would really like to know. Thanks again!)
Most professionals don’t know parts of their SO copy pasta code does either
Used to happen a lot at the end of a long beheading workday.
The filevault unlock screen interestingly enough is an EFI application, carefully constructed to look like the normal login screen. It's probably the most used EFI app that normal users interact with.
> You certainly can't just take male-oriented tropes and try to apply them to female-oriented characters.

Why do you say that? People don't, but they can. I've seen plenty of plays written for male leads but acted by females (e.g., Hamlet).
So, like YouTube? Where only the creator can see dislikes?
> and everybody watches too much streaming video, and sleep and exercise are things I do only after everything else is done

I don't know, this kind of feels like the adult version of ice cream for breakfast.

Maybe what you're describing is the difference between dreaming something and actually doing it. There's nothing forcing any of us to watch a ton of streaming video other than our own choices, although it's hard to decide to go out and do something different once you're in that habit.
Execution is completely different from war casualties.
Very distinct things. China is actively deploying modular reactors while thorium salt reactors have many unsolved problems, mostly with durability that will need substantial advancements in material sciences to become viable.
If you're German, this is probably not a game you want to play.
I'm currently dealing with a kind of similar situation, and honestly I find it a little odd -- I get questions from students which I'm pretty sure are honest and asked in good faith, but they seem to think they are very close to having solved the problem, despite having just over-fitted most of the tests.

It is possible that the problem is poorly written (I'm just a TA, I didn't write it, and it looks pretty clear to me), or it is possible that I'm just really gullible and they aren't actually asking in good faith (I'm a trusting person, but I've been doing this kind of work for a while and so I've seen most of the dishonest questions, this doesn't look like one to me). I dunno, I think I'll just chalk it up to the long tail of weirdness that can occur when dealing with a bunch of students.
> people moved away from a preference for desktop apps.

Who did; which "people"?

Corporations and "Web developers" maybe; users never asked for it AFAIK.
https://archive.ph/cIrRU
You probably already know this, but EAA does still get a discount for the maker license of Solidworks. $50/year. I'm actually designing a mold for some generative art with it right now :)
No, simple blasphemy is a crime.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-execution-apostasy/...
Did anyone care about the decentralization or the lack of censorship at the time? Seems more like a hindsight thing.
What a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing!
I'm really struggling to find the war being waged on trans people here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=trans

There are numerous programmes on the lives of trans people covering a variety of topics (relationships, culture, health), some news stories reporting facts (mainly people and organisations getting 'cancelled' for being anti-trans) and articles based on public comments from well known people regretting decisions.

I assume you are referring to the controversy around a single article by a single journalist [1]. A journalist who previously wrote a sympathetic history of trans people in the modelling industry... for the BBC[2].

Out of curiosity, I tried to find any other evidence. All other descriptions of this anti-trans agenda ultimately just reference this single article e.g. [3]. One 'article' becomes 'articles' and then slips into being an 'agenda'[4]. I found one other reference - an article about an internal meeting which some attendees complained about, but that wasn't even public facing and was only called because of that single article [5]. (There were also some vague references to two individual news stories, which were considered by some to not be balanced - there are complaints like this about news coverage from either side of any argument every single week on the programme Feedback.)

If the BBC is trying to promote an anti-trans agenda across their massive output involving tens of thousands of people, they are doing a spectacularly bad job of it.

I get fed up of people bashing the BBC over individual incidents - it just feeds into the right wing narrative that it needs to be de-funded [6]. Be careful what you wish for, privately owned media tends not to be great for marginalised groups...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59074096

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49578690

[3] http://www.ilga-europe.org/sites/default/files/2022/united_k...

[4] https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/drag-race-uks-bimini-calls-o...

[5] https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/11/bbc-trans-lgbt-staff-s...

[6] https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/mps-and-trans-campaigner...
Would it have been similar in taste and texture to a dish usually made from yellow maize?
Handy reference on why nuclear power might not be such a good idea as some people think: https://www.wien.gv.at/english/environment/ombuds-office/arg...
This is surprising to me, I found this number for Finland: 22.5% comes from hydropower.
I suppose I'm stuck associating Tampere, Finland (Nokia) with hydropower as well as the Venmork plant in Norway that was sabotaged during WW2. I realize that doesn't mean much however.

I have to do some reading, but my understanding was that the Finnish plant is using an alternate funding structure from many of the existing nuclear installations. Less direct subsidies or more risk directly on the commercial entities?
So do you keep buying Saudi oil in the meantime while you are sorting all of this out?
Excuse me -- your yearly deductible is $10,000? Here I thought €385 was a lot...
Tesla paints more Gigafactory Berlin walls in graffiti, Model Y deliveries soon
It is/was nice, just an early NoSQL DB with a lot of interesting features. Just better options came about to take its mindshare. We used it about 11 years ago for an internal marketing CMS system and the replication and attachment support were a good fit.
Interesting article overall, but the counter-point is not that strong IMO. I don’t think that those which are arguing that NATO over-extended and that they’re not innocent bystanders harbour the illusion that failing such expansion Russia would be a more democratic country.

The argument is that they wouldn’t be so aggressive because they wouldn’t feel threatened. There was a great argument that I read on HN explaining why Ukraine being NATO-friendly was causing massive problems for Russia - the gist of it was that they could project significant more power right at their doorstep.

In a recent interview Mearsheimer said that even if Ukraine wants to join NATO and NATO wants them to join, in reality Russia has a kind of veto power, no matter if that may seem immoral and unfair.