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> The Cold War got hot cause of Russia, no one else.

Because decades of NATO expansion have nothing to do with this [0], having literal NATO exercises at the border of Russia [1], just completely normal and not at all an escalation. Nobody ever warned about any of this, it just came completely out of nowhere [2].

While the US would have no issue with Russia holding military exercises in Mexico, and couping the Mexican government. It wouldn't react in any way, most certainly not with the military, it's not like we have a precedent like the Cuban missile crisis, and the US military illegally occupying parts of Cuba to this day, in a very similar way to what Russia has done to Crimea.

> Russia is solely responsible for this war.

Sure, as long as you just wholesale ignore and deny what actually led to the war and how it was an active choice by US officials to undermine a diplomatic and peaceful solution, brokered by the EU, because "Fuck the EU".

In that context most online debates about this topic are similarly dishonest and toxic as war on terror debates in the early 2000s were; Anybody who doesn't join in with the blatant jingoism shall be declared an "enemy supporter", back then it was "terrorist supporter" nowadays it's "Putin supporter" and allegedly the only way out of this is more conflict, more weapons, any diplomatic solution shall be considered "pro Russia propaganda" because the forever war can't stop.

In that context you might as well tell me about WMD in Iraq, that's the level of argument you can bring that solely rests on ignoring a coup and insisting how a civil war, resulting from that coup, is totally not a civil war.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-07-me-10464...

[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/us-army-to-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/international/bush-pulls-...
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I've only heard of evidence against, that interviews of US soldiers post WWII found only 1/4 had shot to kill. I've never really looked into it; the claim is somewhat disputed, I think.

The two commonly cited books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing

r/AskHistorians doubts it: https://redd.it/22o24j https://redd.it/2od6eg
This port is awesome, I remember getting it on the very first android phone (HTC G1/Dream with the little trackball, and I remember the gain actually supported that very well, as well as left/right click with the two button. I've had this game on every phone ever since, for the past decade. It's the one constant on my phones.
I taught myself C from K&R 2, and a platform-specific (Amiga!) book, back when I was a teenager. In three decades, not much has really changed with the core language.
Then you misunderstood me. I very well know there are many republican voters that are black just not actual senators and congressmen. In NC and other southern states too. Conversley there are a lot of racist people in the PNW where states are mostly blue. Republicans will accept votes from anyone and at least right now will not engage in open and explicit public racism. They even have a few black law makers they use to say "see we have a black guy, we are not racist" because they can't get a majority at the state and federal level by alienating independents and not so extreme conservatives.

Even the proudboys had a black person as their leader who supported them all the way until they called him a "token negro" and had an internal coup lol.
I dunno, but somehow rush hour for public transit is often crowded and unpleasant, which suggests a solution is non-trivial.
Yeah, classic cars and also all the rest of most things. Where do you think all the plastic stuff originates? Natgas and oil to the point that fuels are becoming a byproduct.

Edit: why Germany is now so troubled about Russian gas? Not because they'll freeze, but because the choice is to either freeze or shut down most of the industry. Which you can't just spin up in a couple of weeks.
I'm guessing he's talking about the putchar/getchar example in the first or second chapter?
Your certs only last 7 days and IIRC you can only deploy 3 apps if you don't pay the 99$/year though.
> If I don't think the change is worth it or the vulnerability is relevant, I can go to the Snyk site and mark a vulnerability to be ignored, or even tell it to ignore it for a month or whatever.

I am currently fighting with our security team because they refuse to allow developers to do this, and instead require my team to file tickets with their team, wait hours for that ticket to be picked up, explain why a thing is a false positive to a person who doesn't understand the codebase they're working on, and hope that person feels that the finding should be ignored.

I do not work at a large company.

This is greatly exacerbated by the fact that Snyk - like all package scanners - primarily flags false positives. When you start digging in to what it flags you'll find that a lot of the vulnerabilities aren't reasonably exploitable, or the impact is questionable, or you can't repro the issue. Those that do legitimately affect the underlying library often don't affect your usage of that library. I'd estimate our false positive rate is >90%. So when we get a finding our options are to go through that costly and disruptive process I mentioned above, or just upgrade the dependency (which carries associated risk of breaking shit in production).

These tools emphasize the quantity of findings they produce, and quietly ignore the quality. As soon as you have any divergence in motivations or incentives between the people running the scanner and the people being blocked by the scanner those low quality findings become incredibly costly.
> the energy gradient powering civilization is in decline

O tempora, o mores!
You can try with https://news.ycombinator.com/best that orders with more weight in points and less weight in freshness.

And in the oposite direction, also https://news.ycombinator.com/newest that is the stream of new post. More are bad, but it's important to discover the good one and upvote them.
It was eye opening hearing from nurses in covid wards talk about patients who would dent the existence of the disease with their last dying breaths. That's how hard people can deny reality when it scares them.
Part of what you charge when you lend someone money is a risk premium, because there's a chance you won't be paid back.

If you lend money to tow-truck operators then it is absolutely possible for them to go bankrupt and for you to fail to recover the entire value of the loan. If you don't like that risk you instead can lend to safer borrowers, the ultimate being the US Government itself - and the quid pro quo is that you can't charge as much for those loans.
>Pencil and paper are the best programming tools and vastly under used

Most of these sound good but this one floored me. Beyond the occasional architecture whiteboarding discussions I dont see much value.

Ive also seen it badly used plenty too - e.g. hand drawn diagrams of a tech stack that were scanned in and put on the wiki and were out of date by the very next day.
"Meth smoke blown in your face, or teens setting off fireworks and assaulting passengers on the subway" is somehow not a problem in parts of the world where public transit is not seen as something for the poor people only.
Square Enix launches its first NFT project
It was. I left pretty quick.
There's something really awesome about learning a new game, it's ruleset, then techniques and tricks. Like once you play a game for a long time, you go into automatic mode and you're not really learning anything anymore, like most people who play normal sudoku or minesweeper. I much prefer the learning phase than the doing phase of a puzzle, which is why I love this. I also love The Witness but that's getting offtopic.
AMAZING, Thank you.

I hope that every science teacher that can - provide this to every student. This is the future they live in now. They should know these as well as they know how to install an app on a device.

Wait until we have a DALL-E -- Enabled Custom EMOJI stream - whereby, every text you send out has it corresponding DALL-E resultant image for every txt --

Then we can compare images from different people at different times but the prompt was identical... and see what the resultant library of emoji<-->PROMPT looks like?

What about using Dall-e as a watermark for 'nft' signature 'notary' of an email.

If DALL-E provided a unique PID# for every image - and that PID was a key that only the OP runner of the image has - it can be used to authenticate an image to a text source... ??? (Assuming that no two prompts have the same result ever, but assigning a unique id that CAN be used to replay the image to verify it was generated when an original email/SMS was actually sent - it could be a unique way to timestamp authenticity/provenance of a thing...
> You aren't being paid based on what your labor is earning your company.

I've managed P&L at multiple companies. Salaries are inevitably influenced by cash flow projections and revenues, and are absolutely aligned in multiple dimensions to revenues.

> cost of living shouldn't matter and maybe pay everyone $110k

No, they're going to pay whatever their margins can tolerate while competing for labor. If Google can manage the salaries they have with staff living mostly in high cost-of-living cities, so they can also support those margins with staff living anywhere else in the world.

Why is it only capitalism when the company is greedy?
Microsoft already tried and failed. They have also ruined Nokia.
Do you have any tips or some prompt examples?
> You can't take back someone's education

Sure you could, you could rescind someone's diploma so that they no longer have the degree.
I worked at a company that shrugged off customers' threats to chargeback. It was seen as a way to shift customer support load to the bank!

Chargebacks mostly fell into two categories: those who didn't recognize the business's name or financially unstable customers who charged back because they ran out of money at the end of the month and wanted to get some back (sometimes every month).

I guess it helped it was a low risk industry selling a service that can't be resold as only dumb criminals would use stolen credit card information to pay on an account with their name on it.
Cheers!

I'm not equipped to evaluate it either, just hopeful. :)
Individualistically, you're completely on point.

However, what does your intuition say when you try to think systemically? There is some percentage of people who get screwed by loans due to unforseen circumstances and no fault of their own. Student loans are universal enough that the stats make this number of people non-insignificant. If it's nobody's fault, who should shoulder how much of the burden?

So, say we make up a number and consider that we know around 10,000 people per year get student loans and eventually end up below the poverty line due to severely bad luck. The situation isn't their fault; it's also not the bank's fault. So what do you do as a policy maker?

What if you knew that, by forgiving student loans, 8,000 of those individuals would bounce back and become productive members of society, while only 1,000 would otherwise? What are negative and positive impacts on forcing banks to shoulder the burden of these defaulting loans? What about forcing individuals to shoulder the burden?
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> Adobe will make sure all its apps require Adobe App Store

It seems like your defense of Apple is that other companies will be able to act like Apple.

I'd rather have multiple small masters which compete with each other than a single all powerful master.
i wonder if you could say “person who looks 15 but is 18”
YouTube has ads?

In all seriousness, every now and then I open YouTube by mistake in another browser that doesn't have ublock, and the experience is infuriating - having to waatch 5+ second ads on every video I search for or look at. How do people stand it?
Having played around with Csound a fair bit, it has some pretty good functions for creating instruments and sounds but the API for arranging in it is genuinely horrible to use. Sticking the Csound guts in a plugin and arranging in a DAW makes a lot of sense to me.
Tire tread is kind of a dangerous measure; you don’t necessarily want everyone switching to a super hard tire. Basically you can trade tread wear for stopping distance.
No.

The goods were not delivered and the vendor kept their money anyway. How is this okay?
Regardless of sudo.

Without -f: zero, because my bashrc always has alias rm="rm -i". Same for mv, ln, cp, they are destructive as well.

With -f: I always check cwd, hostname (both part of a prompt) and the entire command. First dry run with ls or echo instead of rm in some cases.
They have switched to a new process with an intermediary 'Patriot Bank' in the middle.
They pass your checking account info to Patriot Bank - somehow your transaction which was a simple debit is now a credit card transaction through this third party bank. Patriot Bank itself seems legit but I don't understand the process and have stopped using Privacy because of this change until I get my head wrapped around what is going on.
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Because A: Demand is highly variable and B: Costs and capacity aren't.
I've lived in MI for the past 7 years, and MN before that (I still have family there). Construction in MI seems to have ramped up quite a bit lately, but is still not comparable to the amount of rebuilding that goes on in MN.

There's definitely progress, but there's still a long way before I would consider the situation good.
See FoxConn, just next door

https://www.wpr.org/failed-partnerships-and-vacant-buildings...
> True, but that's caused by OEMs packaging bloatware, which would not be a concern with iOS.

Not only that, but this act requires the ability to uninstall bloatware.
Just looked it up actually: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TX/htm/TX.33.htm#33....

Basically they put a tax lien on the property, they just don't collect on it while the original homeowner is occupying the property.

I'm not a lawyer, but my basic understanding of this is that if it exceeds the value of the property, the estate can just let the city/county seize the house. Otherwise, they'd need to pay the deferred taxes in order to transfer the title to the heirs.

Obviously this is not legal advice.
The logic isn't that student loans are a special thing that shouldn't have to be paid back. The logic is that under normal circumstances the lenders has an incentive to evaluate the probability that the borrower will actually pay the loan back. They might raise the interest rate on higher risk loans or just refuse to lend. But with federally guaranteed loans that can't possibly be discharged, the lender's new incentive is to saddle all possible borrowers with as much debt as they can, regardless of their ability to pay.

The idea is that the lenders would stop lending to students who are likely to fail or who are studying something they won't be able to get a job in. The new reality would be: either study something with serious job opportunities, or pay out of pocket.
The problem is the abbreviation. Imagine you saw "NEWEGG" on your statement. You'd think "I didn't buy $1000 worth of computer hardware". But that transaction was actually Newton's Egg Farm and Trucking, a contractor that does grocery deliveries, and indeed you did buy $1000 worth of groceries online three weeks ago.

That's the problem here; ambiguous transaction descriptions. Sure, you don't buy clothes, so you aren't confused by an Allen Edmonds purchase being marked as American Eagle on your statement. But this can happen in many, many domains.
Because you can drive such a truck https://preview.redd.it/jxpnmzv586e81.png?width=1024&auto=we... if you do not need to transport a family and a sedan and those two will weigh less and have better combined gas mileage than american larger truck. If you relax the assumption that you always transport both a family and a truck load you allow for more powerful trucks and still come out ahead.

In addition you do not need to waste gas if either capability goes unused and the mileage of transporting people won't depreciate the more expensive truck faster.
> Whose platform is it? It's the users that make the forum valuable.

Not if they're using the platform to make other users miserable. That's got negative value.
Agree 100%.

Chargebacks are a nightmare for small businesses. We never win, even when we should. Customers keep the items they ordered, and get their money back. How is this okay?
Tax policies that require more than perfunctory policing are generally a bad idea IMO; tax evasion becomes a realistic option (everything from farming out properties to their extended family to "reside in" to avoid paying the higher rate to befriending assessors to have them misidentify you as a resident).

Policing is definitely possible, but I don't think the added cost and operational complexity make it advisable.
Ah, live prey....
> Puzzle implementations written in this framework are self-testing as far as I could make them

> Textual game and move descriptions, for example, are generated and parsed as part of the normal process of play. Therefore, if you can make moves in the game at all you can be reasonably confident that the mid-end serialisation interface will function correctly and you will be able to save your game. (By contrast, if I'd stuck with a single make_move() function performing the jobs of both interpret_move() and execute_move(), and had separate functions to encode and decode a game state in string form, then those functions would not be used during normal play; so they could have been completely broken, and you'd never know it until you tried to save the game – which would have meant you'd have to test game saving extensively and make sure to test every possible type of game state. As an added bonus, doing it the way I did leads to smaller save files.)

Is there a general name for code like this that deliberately makes use of functions it doesn't necessarily need to so that bugs are noticed early? I haven't heard it called self-testing but I don't have a name of it. I've done this before when features/functions are added that I know are rarely going to get called and I want an early warning if they break later by making sure they're called during regular usage.
I'm not sure how much that matters? Apple still have to abide by EU legislation to sell their products there.
The merchant can outright lie. I returned a $2k item to Amazon once. Amazon failed to refund, so I filed a dispute. Amazon replied with a 50-page PDF that at the end claimed they didn’t get the item. I then pointed out that not only did UPS deliver it to them in Nevada, but it was Amazon customer support that gave me the tracking number.

This change by Visa is going to be abused by big merchants who have legal teams draft up bullshit blanket responses to scare consumers and then exit pre-arbitration. Since the cost to arbitrate is $400 minimum, it’s difficult for consumers to go through with it.

Note that Visa is citing a report by Sift, who is a YC company that is one of the worst data brokers out there. They were extremely non-CCPA-compliant as Jason Tan found out the hard way: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/technology/data-privacy-l...
Because China signed a 50 year pact saying as much.
All of the ones I participate on specifically don’t lock old threads, and for specific discussions, it’s expected that instead of making a new post on the Prophet 12, you look up the old one and add your post to it. If found forums that lock old thread to be very annoying, and I generally don’t use them for that reason. Discussions can easily spread over a decade, and that mega thread is a wealth of information.
UX is very much rooted in both industrial design and psychology. I would highly recommend taking design courses in college, it will help hone your eye for how to perceive a task through a given experience.

Contrary to popular belief, UX has nothing to do with software: UX is just the sexy new term. It all stems from design, and was studied heavily in the early 20th century onwards. Look at a can-opener, for example, or the classic Jerry-can from WW2. It is about how humans interact with the world through design.
Simply getting annoyed by websites I've browsed over the years.
Meanwhile Amex sided with an Australian airline that cancelled flights due to covid, despite the airline being in the news as in financial strife and going into administration.
> I think of it like a volcano eruption. I'm not going to be able to stop it, and no amount of political campaigning will change anything. Just get out of the way.

I can identify with this. In my country a good percentage of people deny it’s happening. And the industries that contribute heavily to the problem don’t show any signs of slowing let alone stopping. It feels inevitable and all I can do is use my autonomy to seek high ground with a robust water supply.
It might. Suppose I was a policeman and my job was to reduce crime in the city. I spend my days cruising, talking to coworkers, doing paperwork, meetings, and sending emails. When there's some emergency near me I show up, but kind of wait in the back while other officers do anything.

I would be bad at my job, and if I kept doing it indefinitely, i.e. if I wasn't quickly fired, then there would be a discrepancy between my nominal job (reducing crime) and what I actually did (nothing).
Too many other people are using computers and earbuds to cheat too.
I mean, it sounds like you generally don’t agree with the bankruptcy system in our country then. And that’s a totally valid position. But I think that concern is somewhat irrelevant to the issue of student loans being treated different than other debt. I suppose, if you think that student loans being non-dischargeable is the first step in the right direction, then maybe it’s somewhat relevant, and you hope the rest of debt eventually becomes more difficult to discharge.

For what it’s worth, I would probably agree with that stance. You’re talking to a guy who had more than $100,000 worth of student loans and lived really cheap to pay them off as soon as possible. I’m not going to deny that a part of me cringes when they talk about student loan relief, because I’ll feel like a donkey for paying mine off.
Unreal Engine begins to provide binaries for Linux
And why do you think it is fair to make a bank pay for your fees, someone else's lack of judgement, someone else's breach?

Bank did its job and processed the payment, why should they be liable for all these?

If anything, your example is an illustration why those "protections" should be abolished.
If you are being honest, why are you posting this using a brand new / throwaway account?
They've gone from growth mode to extraction mode. Prepare for product degradation at the expense of the users.
Lots of hotel stays I do have non-uniform rates-- e.g. different weekend and weekday rates, cheaper rate for first day, cheaper rate past a certain length of stay... But basically all confirmations have clearly showed me my total charge and average daily rate-- and it's never really mattered to me that some of the days cost different amounts than other ones.