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> The Tora has exactly zero passages about it being OK to murder children

Now, go and crush Amalek; put him under the curse of destruction with all that he possesses. Do not spare him, but kill man and woman, babe and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. - 1 Samuel 15

That's one example. The old testament claims God commanded the total extermination of multiple nations competing with the Israelites [1]. This extermination is celebrated to this day during the Purim festival [2]. When someone mentions Judeo-Christian morality, know that the first part of that duo is not remotely "turn the other cheek" - it is literally old testament.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_warfare#Wars_of_ex...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek#Jewish_traditions
I'd say that's at least the late-19th and early-20th Century consensus view, and I'd be inclined to agree that there are very few makers from the late-18th through the mid-20th Century that were making really exceptional instruments. Other people today would insist that there's no advantage at all to a Strad or del Gesu, and that there are lots of instruments by Storioni, Pressenda, Vuillaume, and others that are just as good. (I don't agree.)

That being said, Stradivari and Guarneri were not so highly-rated in their own lifetimes; the Amati family and Jacob Stainer fit the ideal of tone and power of that time. It was only as violin technique and string and bow technology improved, and older instruments were modified with stronger bass bars and back-tilted necks mortised into top blocks, that the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments became so highly-prized. It's almost as though they only really worked properly when technique and technology advanced to be able to fulfill the tonal goals the makers had for their instruments.
What do you have against confederacies?
> you decide next time to avoid this company (EA) when buying games.

EA is not worth the time for a multitude of reasons, multi gigabyte updates being the least of it.

But yes, where do you live that you still buy PC games physically?
Not as much of a day-to-day issue for the newest generations but French Canada vs. English Canada (historically "Lower Canada" vs "Upper Canada", which shouldn't be relevant but some people still use the old labels an excuse for casual 'race'-isms as you call it).

The youngest French Canadians generally speak English. However the oldest generations (50+ or 60+ depending on the region) couldn't and mostly still can't due to the way the system was set up. And since a lot of companies came from either the US or the rest of Canada, they had no hopes in climbing ranks or being competitive as businesspeople. There are some records of French Canadians being sent to unusually harsh missions during the great wars too.

There are casual insults such as calling French Canadian "frogs" and English Canadians "square heads" still in use today.

It is still present even in tech companies where English speakers are sent to client meetings as it is sometimes perceived "rude" to sent someone with a French accent to the front.

These days, it's mostly about not extending the classic "warm Canadian welcome" to the other category. But in some situations, it can get more serious.

(That being said, in 2022 it does not really compare to some of the other examples listed above.)
Sugar taxes are effective in decreasing consumption of sugary beverages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax

Progressive pricing of water for larger consumers helps alleviate impact on the poor.
https://cryptocurrencyclass.github.io/

UC Berkeley DeFi Mooc https://youtube.com/channel/UCB67PxhB5LAWEbI4etQS7aw

Smart contract security auditing https://secureum.substack.com/archive

Tim Roughgarden, Foundations of Blockchains https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RLOHv_xUGLqRts_...

https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook
> when asked "why not Liberapay?", they say Patreon helps take care of business and tax issues, provides an API, etc.

Another big advantage, especially in audio / video formats, is that you can say "support me on Patreon" and people will know what you're talking about, vs. needing to spell out a URL for people.
Cryptocurrencies are worse for the climate than you think
> How about the following? I offer you an unfair coin flip advantage of 51% versus 49%

Isn't that just baccarat without ties?
My daughters were involved at a national sports level for awhile. We had enough trouble with people trying to game the system with age.

Imagine a 10 year girl competing against another 10 year maxed to the extreme on steroids.
Yes but you don't have control of which character is written (only NULLs).

yes lets you specify which character to output. 'yes n' for example to output n.
Super Mario 3 cost something like 800k (in those dollars) to make - and had a 25 million dollar marketing campaign associated with it.
Let's hope he gets the finger as an answer, and a competitor wins.
Caste is a great illustration of how arbitrary racial identities are.
I've thought for a long time that woke could get actual traction by being more woke and extending the concept of "-isms are not okay" to include American caste and regional elitisms and classism that isn't about race.

A course on recognizing bias against lowland Southerners would be funny but not wrong or inappropriate and you'd see plenty of rich coastal fragility on display.

Classism and regionalism are absolutely huge in this country, especially when those on the receiving end are not in a racial minority.

But what would people do if there were no easily identifiable out groups to stereotype and mock?
Of course your message was followed with people accusing the whole culture of robbing people. It's quite interesting how if you switched any other culture this would be downvoted to hell, but the moment we talk of Romani people, the most strong worded racist comments are just accepted. I guess we still have work to do.
Wow this is 1000x than what’s in the article - thanks.
What high school students curricula are you following?

All of those topics were covered where I went.

Though interestingly, the ones I do also tend to get across the point that caste discrimination was made illegal in India, and never tend to go into much explicit detail on how just because something is illegal, it doesn't mean it isn't done/is regularly enforced.
Fake WHOIS records, you can typically populate anything there. Some geolocation providers blindly trust the values that you put in there (for example, Maxmind); others do triangulation based on trace routes and ping times to deduce if the advertised location is actually correct (ipinfo, DB-IP).
> But now with the internet, reddit, Discord etc. people can come together and basically "solve" the game they play.

meta gaming kills strategy for me. From back when I first started playing AoE3 I was absolutely infatuated with the game and genre, but found myself incapable of winning MP matches. Some guys from the old pre-DE competitive scene helped train me a bit, and I could win MP matches now, but the game is no fun, instead of being a fun 4X/RTS, it was “follow this foundation, time everything perfectly, micro perfectly, min/max everything and it lost most of the appeal.

Even more recently CK3, which can be a pretty immersive game, often loses that immersion when the game becomes less about what I do as a king, and more about min/maxing mechanics.

A lot of strategy games start to feel less “strategy” and more “who can exploit mechanics and follow predefined path”. Ironically one AoE3 legend rose from nowhere a couple years back with strategies different from the meta and winning. People called him toxic for it.
So much complaint about color schemes. Hitting the Reader View formatted the page beautifully.

I'm thankful it is a simple HTML page that could be easily formatted using browser-built-in tools.
Ask HN: Personal Activity Tracker
I've come to realize that I should be tracking the time I spend on work and non-work activities with the goals of a) being able to analyze how I spend my time and b) drive improvements in my life-management. I've looked around the Internet and there are tons of tools in this space, so I wanted to ask the community here what they're using. My list of requirements:

- Able to track the time I spend on an activity manually, this includes the date the activity occurred.

- Activities need to be categorized (meeting, 1:1, speaking at a webinar), either using tags or some field.

- Activities need to have a context (what project or effort is the activity for),

- I need to be able to analyze the data by activity type, activity context, time spent. At a minimum a CSV export would work. If it can generate graphs that's a bonus.

- I own the data. Due to security requirements the app either needs to be stand-alone running on my system (Windows) or something I can self-host.

- I'm not looking for project management software, I already have that supplied at work.
You are correct, that would be defined as unnatural as well.
You simultaneously make a great and stupid point. The stupid part is obvious: operations are allowed because writing programs is useful. Now for the great, nuanced and complicated point: How do we detect errors when manipulating floats while allowing us to write the useful programs?

This boils down to two things:
1. What do we think is correct at any given time for any given program? The compiler can't know so we have to tell it, which brings us to 2
2. How do we write down in our programming language what is supposed to be correct?

The problem with floats is that sometimes you care about precision, sometimes you don't sometimes you care about overflows, sometimes you don't. Sometimes you care about inverse operations, sometimes you don't. Commercial programming language which only expose a "float" types usually are unable to deal with the greater complexity of _ensuring_ that some property you care about isn't broken. That is why compilers let you operate on floats and shoot yourself in the foot when you divide and then multiply back.

On the other hand, one could imagine a future programming language (and some academic experiments already exist) where you can tell the computer "in this part of the code, it's important that I never overflow" or "in this function, I expect multiplication and division to be inverses of each other". In which case the compiler will display diagnostic information if you do something that break those properties.

It's not clear yet what is the most convenient user interface to write down and check those properties. But many believe it by using even more advanced type systems than Rust. Many other believe that we can add static analysis atop existing programming languages to obtain the same result.

TLDR: Rust allows it for now because 50-100years in the future we'll have to tools to tell when it's ok and when it's not ok to multiply floats together. Right now we're still smacking rocks together to make fire.
> every thread on this topic turns into a flame war with a bunch of people crying racism/religionism

Is there a term for shutting down a discussion by turning the belligerence to eleven? Such that people outside the discussion tune out not the views of those being belligerent, but the discussion itself?
I don't think it's a matter of definition. Unless you mean "it's not racism when I say it. When I say it it's just a fact".

Whether they use the N word, or saying "being on time" is "whiteness", racism is always defined as "not what I'm doing".

Actually the only real definition of racism I would say is "mentioning race in any way, except the way I do it".

For your 99.999%, I would say that WAY more than one in a hundred thousand would overtly say that their group (race, religion, skin color, gender) is "better" than another. Especially as you leave western countries.

Though in some countries their racism doesn't even place themselves at the top.

27% of Americans say that homeopathy is an effective treatement. I've never met anyone who would admit to this. I know someone who believes in crystals and fortune tellers though.

I don't know how many people are pro-racism, but it's not three orders of magnitude less than people who believe in the power of nothing.
I recently added AccuWeather back to my device. I didn't permit continuous access to location and it kept an incorrect city for the desktop widget. I was tempted to give full access but now I realize I'm best to just delete the widget at least and double check permissions.
Norsunluurannikko = elephants bone coast in finnish, likely direct translation from swedish or german.
>People volunteering to test performance enhancement will improve our understanding of human biology.

That's more Mengele than a sports ethic though...

Sports are not test-labs...
If Amazon wanted more detailed proof, they could just ask for that. There's no limit to how pedantic one can be in evaluating evidence. Maybe they need a physical wet signature from a specific bureaucrat at the US copyright office, sent by courier. Without knowing what constitutes evidence in their eyes, there's simply too many permutations of things they might want to see. I tried a few of those permutations and then gave up.

> The whitepaper is not in the nov08 distribution or the bitcoin-0.1.0.tgz,

How do you know this? The original link in Satoshi's email points to a file that no longer exists and afaik he didn't publish a checksum. So maybe it WAS in there. But is that what the Amazon robot was worried about? Probably not...

Also, unless you were on the mailinglist yourself at the time, you can't even know that the email archive is real.
There might not be an alternative.

However, the example is simply wrong (IMO) since it assumes that within a 30 year timeframe you'll have gained 8% on average (adjusted for inflation). If this would be true, thne yes it would be a decision-making trap. I think that's what morley is getting at.

I'm arguing it's a tough sell that the S&P 500 works like that. If one would agree that the S&P 500 might not continue to give 8% ROI on average over a 30 year time frame, then one might consider doing something else with their money. For example, maybe it's more fruitful to invest in yourself to upskill even more rather than putting your money into the markets. I don't know I haven't researched it, I myself try to beat the market, it's a fun endeavour. The jury is still out.
Factorio and Minecraft are two big ones I know of.
It seems the grandparent agrees with you on that, and not with the opinion which it summarised in that sentence.
Thanks! I would have probably never known about Markov algorithms if I were not taught them in 8th grade =)
Still better than 3/4 of current web.
I think he's being rhetorically sarcastic there.
I'm saying folks who make excuses for historical and present day discrimination clearly have a lot of things in common.
Thanks for reposting, I don't mind.
Apart from the morality of the situation, the fact is that racial discrimination in the workplace is illegal in the US (and rightly so, in my opinion). Whether caste discrimination is a form of racial discrimination is the subject of current litigation in California. Given that there are legal requirements the company needs to stay in compliance with, this is squarely outside of "politics at work".
Like reading Rfc in 1990s … a bit odd choice to use this format and font to sell anything these days.
We’ve had fifty years of behavior change messaging. It’s time to take a different approach.
I love the inconclusive conclusion!

>Conclusion: There is not conclusion. I will let the reader to its own because everything, in art, is subjective.
The solid legal foundation needs to take physical reality into account. Sure, if previous legal agreements did not account for reality, somebody needs to own up to that, cancel the previous agreements openly while sucking up the relevant penalties. However, if this doesn't happen, physical reality will eventually assert itself over legal agreements.
To follow up on the pen idea. Tactile Turn pens are popular with the EDC crowd. https://tactileturn.com/pages/shop
Tweaks to IPv4 could free up millions of addresses
Sure, 30kW storage is fine, but it implies you use all the energy every day (or night). In the summer months my current set up uses basically 0 grid hours (as I already have some storage for night time). The 30% really is an excess after storage, running home appliance, charging batteries etc.
I do this, any bureaucratic organization that I want to be able to reach me (very very few) gets my PO box, which has remained the same across three addresses.
How does Geo-location from IP work anyway? From my knowledge it's just figuring out the ISP the IP-block is assigned to, and finding out the address of the ISP. But technically a computer anywhere in the world can have any IP? Or since I don't know anything about routing: are there routing rules that would think "This is an Indian IP, I'm going to forward this data towards India"?
A friend and I created a personalized digest of cloud services new versions
A side-project that was started after being frustrated of not knowing when services that we were using got new versions so we can plan upgrades and from refreshing docs to see if we can finally start using a service once it finally supports the version we need.

My co-creator and I have created this service as an answer to our personal needs of dealing with a complex infrastructure and keeping up to date with the latest versions of cloud services.

We currently support services in AWS, Azure and GCP with more services and providers planned down the line.
There will be plenty of He from fusion reactors - in about 20 years ;)
Staff engineers help reach clarity
Had a chance to visit the Sequential office in San Francisco during my 2015 visit there. I came prepared with a bottle of quality Tequila, met Dave and his team and had a great time chatting. I’ve been inspired by his work and overall kindness and he and Roger Linn, Dave Rossum, Don Buhla, Tom Oberheim and Bob Moog will always be role models we can aspire to shape our own lives after. Music technology is a fantastic place to be an engineer in, it’s as much as engineering as is being a creative artist. I felt these guys have been always on the forefront on making it a community experience and inspiring a wide range of artists.
Dave will be sorely missed.
> but there are compelling reasons why nothing of the sort would happen again.

What are these reasons?
That is possible, for about 90% of the pay... But do people really want to take a 10% cut just to keep some colleagues on?
You're one of the good ones, then. (Though there is something to, "If I can't hear me, they can't hear me.")
The law that they’re talking about also mandates cloud and server providers to maintain IP allocation histories and validate customer identities by way of KYCs.
Yes, lying is often convenient.
I’m going to get blasted for this.

But the various chronic illness support forums I follow have a lot of trans people with tons of serious issues.
Having public messaging about negative social behavior often results in more of the negative behavior. Studies suggest lots of media about school shootings results in more school shootings. Similarly, messaging about getting help to reduce self-harm results in more self-harm. DARE resulted in no reductions in drug use.

If the people creating these programs/talks don't understand this, they don't deserve the platform. And if they do understand it, they are evil and intentionally trying to make race/bigotry tensions worse. In cases such as this where the relevant psychology of the issue is essential to the career, I tend to assume the worst of anyone doing it.
Yes, you are correct. Contrary to gold, however, which is largely useless and ornamental (aside from some marginal use in microelectronics), helium is necessary for a large amount of critical medical infrastructure, as well as research at cryogenic temperatures, superconductors, etc. To see helium steeply rise in price according to supply and demand would spell disaster for many of these applications.
I am aware that subtitles aren’t “merely text” and that different container formats constrain the subtitle format and number of tracks and so on. Still, this is simple compared to much of the stuff we use software for. Complexity abounds everywhere and yet lots of software manages to bring order to the chaos. There’s no reason this shouldn’t also apply to subtitles.

A trivial example is to try to convert the subtitles rather than defaulting to no subtitles (Handbrake). Another trivial improvement would be warning that the subtitles can’t be brought over to the container format before the 20 hour transcode rather than letting users find out after that their subtitles weren’t converted.

This isn’t rocket science.
Organizing a labor protest because of unfair working conditions, or as an attempt to unionize, is "protected" by US regulations (not necessarily laws).
Organizing a labor protest because of a (real or perceived) culture of sexual harassment is not. If she had a valid and provable claim of wrongdoing, she should have approached an attorney and sued Google to elicit change (and maybe some compensation). I believe I read that her protest was staged to "bring awareness" to the issue. If you were an employer (regardless of your views on the topic), would this be okay with you?

The same thing goes for trying to organize a meeting with a speaker who will talk about the caste system in Silicon Valley. Yeah, caste == bad, but is the employer obligated to host such a meeting (at their expense)? Obviously she could rent a venue and invite others to the presentation on their own time, but why must Google submit to her demands for them to pay for it?
I died from infections, but at least I was a rich man.
The payout is exactly the same but what op means is that you need less "50% of 100%" bets than "10% chance at $1000" to reach the same payout.

1 in 2 for the first one will pay out.
and 1 in 10 for the second one will pay out.

Variance is higher for second than for first.
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