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> To say that Tolkien "intended" for Galadriel to present, in Lord of the Rings, any of the traits one would associate with a kinslaying ruthless warleader

For the record, I'm not in this camp. I think it's fair to debate whether Galadriel participated and/or was culpable in that (as other threads have).

I'm just arguing (perhaps specifically in Tolkien's case) that LotR sits inside the "legendarium" and can't be properly interpreted in a void. I don't feel that the Silmarillion stories were so unfinished that they don't reveal truths about the characters, that Tolkien must have already held when writing LotR.

But now in retrospect, I'm probably glorifying Tolkien a bit too much. It's normal for authors to change their minds about their characters, and it's normal for people reinterpreting those works to sometimes ignore those changes of mind. (It's also normal for fans to dislike those reinterpretations when it clashes with their understanding of the characters).
I think the parent conflates "non placebo" with "fixes everything all by itself".
What makes posits so good for hardware? Does the fact that they have variable sized exponent not cause similar difficulty as the subnormals in floats?
> I bill around £14k a month and after taxes i walk away with about £7k a month.

You should employ some sort of a tax-reduction strategy. Paying 50% of your gross in direct taxes is absolutely batshit crazy.

I used to contract for £350-450 per day as a PHP backend dev and paid an effective 30% tax rate. Which is still crazy insane high, but it's not 50%.

Does your 50% figure includes VAT? Because if that's not VAT inclusive, you're doing something horribly wrong. Inside IR35?
This is how it works today:

Outside of the tech circle, virtually no-one cares at all after 6 years of existence especially with the constant comparisons to Twitter back then and today. This also explains that many people who left Twitter to Mastodon months ago came right back to post on Twitter again because the level of interaction on Mastodon is extremely low.

It isn't early days anymore and 6% of registered users are not using it. If that is not a failure to convince Twitter users to use or migrate to Mastodon, then I don't know what is. Not exactly a convincing elevator pitch for normal users to use outside of tech.
For an app like this, that would typically be configuration in the database. (Think WordPress; are you writing your marketing copy in plugin source code or are you writing it using the page editing functionality?) The AGPL doesn’t require you to publish your database.
The kind of voter fraud that would be stopped by ID checks is a fantasy. Now you're proposing the rollout of an expensive nationwide government program to stop something that basically doesn't exist?

I'll link this random source here, but there are dozens of them out there. There is no evidence to support any claim of widespread voter fraud that would merit the introduction of a poll tax or a nationwide free ID program + combined ID requirement.

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-c...

Your proposal also ignores the fact that in some cases getting an ID is very complex and expensive - some people don't have birth certificates, for example, and getting one printed requires going to a specific location and paying a fee. Sometimes it's still not possible, because the records facility keeping your birth certificate burned down (there's at least one case of this I read about.)

Making IDs free would be a cool measure for equality! Not sure where the funding would come from though. In some places like Washington State people keep trying to defund the DMV entirely by getting rid of car taxes, so I doubt you'd get away with funding it that way.
Virtualizing consumption may be the aspect of mixed reality I’m most excited about. There are plenty of goods that have to be physical, but many don’t.
Are there any references for this? What is the "epoch" here?

1024 weeks before Sept 17 is February 1, 2003. What is significant about that date?

References welcome.
Maemo and MeeGo were sandbagged from the beginning because of Gnome and Gtk+, which were simply not fit for the job.
IMHO what Nokia should have done was release Qtopia phones from day 1, as an alternative to Symbian, and prepare the migration from Symbian to Qtopia after that. But they did it in reverse: first Symbian, then Symbian to whatever will be new (Maemo, MeeGo, who cares: something new to be developed, so a disadvantage of years), etc. It was stupid.
>MicroSoft exec joined a phone company as a CEO

One does not just "join" the biggest company in a foreign country as CEO. The board decided to hire him after evaluating all options.

The board's chairman was this guy who was CEO of Nokia for 14 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorma_Ollila

Why would he allow Elop to be hired unless he thought it was in the best interest of Nokia to align with Microsoft?

Not to mention the board could've fired Elop anytime if they thought he was prioritizing MS's interests over Nokia's.
Let's compare the Nokia N900 (Nov 2009) to the Motorola Droid (Oct 2009).

They arrived at about the same time. They used the same CPU. They both had (approximately) 800x480 screens, which at the time was flagship class. They both used slide-out keyboards, removable batteries, a 5MP camera, 256MB of RAM, and some on-board storage plus a microSD slot. They weighed within 20g of each other.

The N900 had a resistive touchscreen, the Droid was capacitative. Both had an official price of $600-650, but would actually be sold for $200-250 when bought with a 2 year carrier plan (that was the norm back then).

Maemo had a small developer community. Android had a medium-sized dev community. Android had marketing -- for about 2 years, people were calling all Android phones "Droids". Maemo had none.
How long are your engagements?
Neither of those movies are considered Woke, really.
Ubuntu: “How are we improving Firefox snap performance?”
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> My point is that there's no elf manual that everyone needs to stick to.

There is when the reference material is from Tolkien. If they had made this show without any reference to LoTR then you'd be right, but they didn't.
As someone who's taken plenty of psychedelics, done lots of meditation, and gets tons of exercise, I'd agree that they can all re-wire your brain.

Psychedelics are very different from the other two tho, just like exercise is very different from meditation.

They are all very worthwhile and can help you grow.

Meditation and exercise are best practiced regularly. Psychedelics are best used for singular cathartic events, saved for special occasions.

Psychedelics can change your outlook overnight, while meditation is a more gradual process. Excercise won't really change your outlook palpably, it will just keep you in a better head and body space.

They all can be difficult and rewarding. Its possible to harm yourself with any of them, but generally you come out well ahead if you do them responsibly. They can all make you a better person.
“The market economy gives me and my preferences 200 times the voice and weight of his. If that isn’t the biggest market failure of all, I don’t know what your definition of market failure could possibly be.”
Thank you! The explanations for the solution there are quite interesting! I watched a Veritasium video a couple month back that mentioned Hamiltonian paths but my brain didn't make the connection. And even if tbh, I'm not sure I would have found the solution. Thanks for the link, I am somehow relieved now!
Tell me with a straight face that this ever happened to you.
Will always have a soft spot for CK!

My dad introduced me to Keen, Prince of Persia (and other classics like Doom and Wolfenstein etc.) when I was tiny.

I still recall how he contrasted the comical/arcade-y movement in Keen to the "realistic" movement in PoP. I was 3 or 4 years old, mind. It was great to see this [1] on HN the other day - it led me to this [2] video which kind of served to explain to my dad and I how he got the movement so right. Sorry weird tangent.

Two other games I remember enjoying was The Incredible Machine and Chip's Challenge. TIM was amazing! Must remember to dig that out if I ever have kids.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538026
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbk5qH2-1S8
Here it is..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606348
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> "These companies" now have basically zero incentive to support them or to sic "PR goons" on their opponents.

Bro. They have new drugs that are a molecule different which they sell instead. And your scorn notwithstanding, they do have entire division of goons, whose explicit purpose is to alter opinion online, in academia, in politics, etc.

> There are also legitimate concerns about biases in the evidence base for claims about the efficacy of psychedelics

Pfft. Same goes for pharma drugs.

> And yes, psychedelics have side effects:

I didn't say they don't. The side effects are on a different level though.

We're talking about companies that knowingly sold AIDS infected products, among other atrocities. You'd wanna be a little less naive.
It’s $25 or $125 (includes all product pack, requires min 50 users) per usermonth. The OP said on prem.
Various stimulants can also have a different effect, depending on one's neurotransmitter balance. For example, Adderall is generally speed to someone without a dopamine deficiency. I would imagine even crystal meth would be far less harmful with a dopamine deficiency than without (although there are still the issues with purity and dose size that would make it inadvisable to experiment).

The day we can discover what someone's exact neurotransmitter balance is, I think we'll learn a huge amount about how the brain works via that mechanism. I think if we ever reach that day, we'll also learn that there is no such thing as "neurotypical"
We bill for project management and work related meetings, but not contract and business development related meetings. So if we’re getting feedback for our performance, ways we can improve, or discussing a contract extension we don’t bill for those. But if we’re discussing the thing we’re building, or doing project status updates we bill for that.

We’ve never had a client push back on that.
That's pretty much standard for almost every startup and non faang company I interviewed in Canada / US
Im not jewish and visited Israel recently for several weeks. Despite thinking I had a pretty good knowledge base of the situation beforehand, actually being there, and talking to people with actual stake in the region it became obvious that the opinions of people who have never been to Israel and dont have any skin in the game (95% of this thread) are completely off base, un-nuanced and literally worthless.
They can go anywhere from one hour (e.g awareness training) to a full month (e.g complex web application pentest)
That was the sentiment of my comment as well, I guess I weren't clear enough - Nokia N9 was made to work great on what technically was still Maemo, but since they were supposed to go with MeeGo afterwards it would still require a lot of work to actually do that.
> The company offered similar buyouts to Cadillac dealers in 2020. About 320 of those 880 retailers accepted the offer rather than assume expectations to invest at least $200,000 toward upgrading dealerships for electric vehicles.

The $200k is a hell of a pill to swallow, and more than I'd have assumed. I wonder if that includes training as well?

Incidentally,I wonder if GM is seeing the trouble other OEMs are having with dealerships, and trying to move away from them.
If you want to give back, consider hiring from the organization Rick (subject of the podcast) started - Underdog Devs.

It’s a loosely collected group of mentors and mentees with a small dedicated group of full-time learners on a stipend program

The #1 challenge, by far, faced by the org is hiring and placement into companies for cohort graduates and mentees.

If you’re able, consider posting job listings in the UD slack

https://www.underdogdevs.org/

*I am part of the group as a mentor and its been on the whole an incredibly positive experience
Here's the Planet Money episode: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119606931/wake-up-and-smell-...

I really enjoyed the whole thing.
I have a 'rack rate' which is for anything short. That comes down for larger projects - say 10% for 500 hours, 15% for 1000 hours and so on.
Probably about as faithful as Icon of Sin.
That's a lot of words to say "to make fraud harder you have to make buying from you harder, the optimal amount of fraud is the amount of fraud you get when any additional measure you could take against fraud would lower your revenue more from lost business than it would lower your costs from people committing less fraud"
Gitfiend Git Client
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs...

Why would you want to loop in a completely separate service when GitHub and Jira already have an integration available?
Precedent from decisions on The Daily Stormer and 8chan was used to pressure Cloudflare to deplatform human rights organizations by authoritarian governments.

Cloudflare isn’t a court, its decisions are not legal precedents, it can decide on a case by case basis who it wants to do business with.

If authoritarian government comes knocking, just say no. What are they gonna do?
> I know that the HN "founders" crowd is going to hate me for saying that, but I think that we should really stop glamorizing revenue

Why? And how "usefulness" will allow me to live comfortably?
Have an annual salary in mind for a similar role, chop off the last three zeros, and that's my hourly rate.

It works out to approximately double which is just enough to account for things you would normally get from an employer:

- payroll taxes (SS/Medicare)
- PTO/sick days
- equipment & supplies
- training/conferences
- health insurance
- retirement savings

Etc
Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
The binary does work (at least on Big Sur). It would be nice though, if there were signed executables available. Not sure what I did to make it work, if I can remember that required some trial-and-error.
Most of your first submissions were slack/discord invites and those will get auto-flagged. Beyond that I can only assume that starting with many discord/slack invites probably flagged the account. The moderator could probably give you more details. Daniel a.k.a. dang: hn@ycombinator.com
And why is this relevant? It wasn't a documentary about longevity.
Fang is for comfortable and reliable cash, not for the highest possible salary at the highest possible stress level.
I'm not, this is where OP scoped it to. OP is arguing that "identity theft" shouldn't be applied to any kind of crime, because stealing an identity isn't actually possible. What is possible is legally persuading a bank that you are someone else.

Calling it identity theft when all someone has to do is get on to one of the many public data leaks and find your information is weird. It's not some kind of heist, it's using publicly available information to trick gullible banks.
Yes, the under appreciated secret sauce Apple had was a brand with enough prestige that they could dictate terms to Cingular Wireless. Cingular couldn't put bloatware on it, they couldn't load it with crappy video "services" that played 15 second clips of football games for $19.95 per month. They couldn't charge a fee for a map app. They couldn't even paste their logo on it. Etc., etc.
You mean in the US? Gas taxes do not fully cover the cost of roads, actually.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-13/debunking...
Ironically, I've found it's easier to charge higher rates for longer engagements.
Seems you should be able to play at least the Shareware version online: https://archive.org/details/msdos_SCORCH15_shareware

EDIT: this seems to be the full one, but I'm not sure how one would check (never played this game): https://archive.org/details/ScorchedEarth
Very interesting case. I personally hate cancel culture. It's like if society has left the court of "public opinion " be the judge of people's actions. The problem is that such judgments are based on sentiment and not on facts. And as s result, lifes are destroyed.

If I was this guy I would immediately go to Russua, UAE , or any of the other places that is offering him space to continue with research. Let the JUDICIAL system continue the course of the real judgement and contribute to a society that doesn't block me for some hearsay.
Meetings before signing a contract are usually free. Mean people call them "exploiting freelancers". They would invite consultants to their office and try to pickup their brains. They usually asking for free estimation, or some other free work, in the best (and very rare) case they will ask your rate and shake the hands right at the first meeting.

There are very few people who would agree to pay even for the initial meeting.

After signing the contract, you can bill for all the time you spent working, meeting, thinking, answering emails or phone calls, or even being on standby or warming up a seat at a client site.

In case the client set up a meeting and then canceled it on the short notice, or worse, didn't show up at all - you can also charge for this if you've lost the opportunity to work on other things.

Of course it's best to discuss this with the customer before signing the contract, and if possible made it clear in the contract itself.
I have 12 years of experience working as a backend engineer full time for medium-to-large sized software companies, and breaking into consulting has always seemed really difficult to me.

I mostly excel at system architecture and writing technical documents to describe the trade offs of those systems. I really don’t enjoy full stack/web programming or marketing - is it possible to consult in strictly this capacity? e.g. as a principal or higher level engineer?
Could you give some examples of those people?
Or fairies. Or talking puppets.
> White skin is associated with purity, darker skin with corruption

it's the oldest metaphor in the world

it's light vs darkness, like white magic and black magic.

Heaven is light, hell is darkness.

Nobody sees "the dark at the end of the tunnel".

The idea that black people mean evil and white people mean virtue is a stretch of the modern thinking, by the same people that believe that blacklist comes from black people.

> where the more animalistic or violent races also tend to be darker

Not true.

Borgs, arguably the most dangerous species in the series, are white

Romulans are pale white.

Cardadsians are pale white too.
You could argue that but as you expect your opponents would quickly paint you as being pro-X. Every decent person would prefer zero child abuse, but few people would support having mandatory police surveillance cameras installed in every room in their house, even if such a panopticon would be proven to reduce significantly child abuse. Us meatbags are irrational like that.
Governments do make that choice through prosecutorial discretion
The title is wrong. The argument is actually that the optimal amount of fraud prevention is non-100-percent.
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Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was my childhood in the late 90s. That plus MPlayer was the height of online multiplayer for me. Turns out all you needed was 56k for a lovely online experience.
I have a theory about survivor bias and all the VC money raining down on every start up under the sun. Maybe there’s no feedback loop on hiring proper value adding employees because there doesn’t have to be.
That's an illusion. Almost all of a coder's daily work is stuff that has been done already about a hundred thousand times. Every time I'm coding on easy mode (eg some sort of personal project where I have all the leeway) I can get through all of it just by googling $language how to $x ... been doing exactly this workflow recreationally during times when I don't feel like exerting myself for years now. It's neither slower nor does it provide worse results than in situations where I'm dealing with technologies I know inside out. With the tougher stuff, you should be consulting your colleagues anyways. If no one knows - then you research together... on google.
The physical keyboard was certainly nice, especially for a linux sysadmin / programmer. I also miss the camera, the "normal" and familiar Linux environment, the unified messaging (native XMPP support, with A/V calling!). It was sturdy despite the moving (keyboard) parts. Phone experience was decent, certainly better than my current Android, but can't beat my first phone, the Nokia 3310.
Blake Stone!
Why not offer a financing facility? Surely a company the size of GM could negotiate low or no interest financing for dealers on the order of $400mm.
A delightful glimpse into what's "normal" in India.

I was wondering: is calling a waterfall "coy" a typo, or is that a dialect thing?
There are plenty of counter examples within Star Trek of patently evil or aggressive characters and races being humanoid with light skin. This is purely your own projection.
There's considerably more conceptual distance between "dalle but 3d" and "dalle but emits practical product designs rather than concept art" than there is between dalle and 3d dalle.
I think the key word here is “stuck” as in “unable to make headway”
I don't think time has yet forgotten Doom
> Then realistically you probably didn't get to "suffer" the real consequences from most of your democratic process related choices.

An example of this that I have heard many times is that of Blair and Iraq.

However now the situation is more interesting as Brexit was done to themselves, not others (though that does not make any suffering ok).
if impossible to test certainly incredibly done wrong, yes and therefore to maintain. but I naturally know what you mean but its not that it must be that way. and at least there is still the one file for the entry-point. but not every entrypoint needs to have equally much bootstrapping code brought up just to process a request.
"in Italy, Tuscany, mid 1800, were no black woman was ever seen "

Yeah, right. Clearly you've not heard about Othello, a Shakespearean play from the 1400s set in Italy with a black man as the titular character.
I have actually used Spaces on a small side project with some friends up until a few months ago! It does seem to have improved since then, but when I was using it the project management/jira-ish features were pretty weak. Basically just tickets with IDs, that you could assign a status. It worked well for our little project but I wouldn’t be able to use it on a larger project. (Things like ticket relations and sub tasks that aren’t just check lists become pretty important imo to not losing things, vs just having everything be a free floating ticket)

The git host and PR management system is well built, and was by far the highlight of using it. It works really well, and I much preferred their model of PRs being just a message thread under the hood, so notifications show up in one spot and remain open and findable, in comparison to GitHub where I tend to lose PRs that I have already reviewed/interacted with once.

We never used the documents/confluence portion of the app, but it seemed capable at first glance, though if I was asked to pick a space to keep structured docs, I’d probably still use something like notion.