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Thanks for these kind replies—I really appreciate it.

I think it is safer to make one's case on $topic without attributing it to a source that many people are likely to be identified with (e.g. national origin or whatever it is). Any time someone feels pressure against a place of identity, it feels like they're being attacked, and at that point the driver of discussion ceases to be $topic and starts activating survival circuitry. The only responses at that point are defensiveness or counterattack (or both). Curious conversation, which is the raison d'être of this place, becomes impossible.

If, however, the argument makes no sense without that attribution, I would try to do it in a way that includes lots of reassurance that one isn't disrespecting or putting down the identity (e.g. nationality or whatever it is), and make a point of explaining the connection to $topic in a limited and respectful way.

It's necessary to err on the side of doing it this way, even if it feels excessive, because although you may know that you're not attacking someone's identity, they don't have any way of knowing that up front. We all have a lot more context in their heads than we include in our internet comments. Readers don't have any of that information unless we explicitly include it. That's one reason why it's so easy for people to misread others' intent on the internet - I've written about this in various places, e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Wi-Fi signal goes from 3 to 2 stripes, or vice versa, when clicking on it. (Still, it's the overall best OS out there)
Team Fortress 2 is still just as fun. The only game I play for the last 5 years.
On my first trip from Czech Republic to Germany in 2008 (as a foreign student from Eastern Europe) I was surprised there was German police checking passengers' IDs. I didn't have all the required documents with me because I thought there would be no checks at all because I had a Schengen visa. Fortunately the police officers were pretty cool and left me alone after I explained who I was and why I didn't have all the documents with me.
Definitely agree, though in Amsterdam they only bought rental units, no SFH, I don't know what their global strategy is in that regard. I'm not sure if there's a clear business case for buying single family homes and turning them into rentals. You're basically competing with the entire mortgage industry then, families have insane buying power when backed by mortgages. They also make decisions that make no financial sense, basically only tempered by governmental regulation and the risk appetite of mortgage lenders.
Property purchase in Croatia was already extremely easy and attractive.
Saying this from my personal experience [ workspace related not familial ] : What happens is that some of these bad people have charisma, can make you follow them, for their ulterior motives. So if you get trapped in that circle, because you tolerated for so long, you probably did not get to experience the 5% bad, but maybe 20% bad over your lifetime. So my lesson there is ... walk. You recognize a problem, you walk, rather than try to fix it. Of course you should give a chance, but that is it - just one chance and then none.
No? I've definitely heard stories that Amazon is having a harder time hiring people because many workers are churning out.
Well, defense and border control contracts are good for employees' job security / wages while uncontrolled immigration could potentially hurt jobs and wages of existing workers. I understand that immigration also has benefits and humanitarian considerations and defense tech can be potentially misused. But if I pay $2K/year to join a labor union, I expect them to focus on protecting and improving my job and then I might separately get involved in other causes. Right now though I would gladly work on military tech to protect Ukraine and Taiwan rather than focusing on "US also has been bad sometimes".
I'm not an expert or anything, but is this making the assumption that there is 0 loss? You put 1Kw into a microwave transmitter on earth and expect to get 1Kw out of the receiver on the moon?

That's preposterous - I would be surprised if you get more than 5% of the power considering the losses in the transmitter, receiver (and related circuitry), not to mention the atmosphere itself plus whatever little bits get in the way (like, I don't know, the thousands of Starlink satellites and other space junk).
Having elections transition smoothly according to the vote is low on the set of outcomes you desire?

That seems like a meta issue, that if not supported, all other issues are moot. So I'd certainly vote against party on any given platform plank in order to maintain the meta process that applies to both present and all future parties regardless of platform planks.
Yes I have. It’s mostly a north/south grid everywhere, broken up a bit by neighborhood (eg belltown is different than Queen Anne). Some of the smaller neighborhoods (Mt Baker, near university, etc) aren’t great grids but you shouldn’t need to traverse them unless you live in it.

It varies a bit by neighborhood, but for the most part Avenues run north/south and streets run east west. Makes it very easy to navigate. Much of the city also uses numbered names, for avenues. If you’re trying to get to 22nd ave and you’re on 17th, you know you need to travel west - along a street (any street) and you should reach it.

On a larger level, the city planners have done a great job wrt gradual density increases in the city, and consistent up zoning along transit corridors. They’ve done a good job at promoting biking and alternative transit by building out a useful set of bike paths (if imperfect). I think the link expansions missed the mark, cost too much, and will take too long to build, but that doesn’t impact driving experience. I think the city should have dumped a ton of street cars (like in SLU and cap hill) across the city instead.

Boston, by comparison, is based on animal trails, and the grid is not consistent within a neighborhood, and is non existent across neighborhoods. The street names give you almost no insight into where you’re going.

Compare the cities here: https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orient...

Oh and as far as drivers go, Boston drivers are way way more aggressive. I won’t claim they’re worse at driving or break more laws, but they’re used to way more traffic, and they’re way more aggressive.
And who caused it?

Us millenials commercializing things that ought not be commercialized; connecting the pockets of sociopaths to the pockets of the companies that suck this planet dry.

This road to depravity is paved with advertising dollars...
Where were you back when the Amiga was big? There were a few artists who could produce great pictures in different video modes, but not many.

PS. Have you compared HAM-6 to HAM-8 modes?
"between the years of 2009 and 2013, I talked to something like 13,000 to 15,000 people while I was doing retail and SMB sales for Verizon. I learned a lot from that period, but one of the things I learned that I did not expect was what I now call my "5% rule."

No matter how kind, warm, thoughtful, amazing, cheerful, consistent, and perfect I treated people roughly 5% of them would just be terrible (yes, I have the numbers to back this)
... this number has held up in other parts of my life too (dating, restaurant customers, etc).

...

the take here - 3% to 5% of people for whatever reason just plain suck."

Sounds easy enough to believe. Of course, social conventions and so on influence such things, these people are not always terrible - I am not sure I buy the latter part of the thesis. I certainly haven't had this experience dating or in grad school. But, there is a reason "karen" is now a commonly used noun.
I agree. I also think the list can be pared down from what I see so far, such as in "Values and purpose" it lists: "What are my fundamental values?" and "What do I truly value?"

These are pretty much the same question. I think three per section would be a good max, 12 is already a lot of categories.

Overall this seems pretty cool though, I'm going to skim through it.
> kinda important when you attach so much relevance to it as a causal factor. It lets us compare and contrast outcomes, and find out whether other things might also be relevant.

I'm not so sure it's that easy; unabashed naked racism such as Casta is quite a different thing than what we might call "subtle racism" as currently exists in countries like the US, but also Europe. Both the effects and the solutions seem quite different to me.

> those who seemingly have no concern at all for the plight of oppressed people outside of their own society

That seems rather strong. It's not a matter of "not caring", it's that situations in other countries are complex so I don't even understand them, and usually can't really understand them properly even if I tried as I don't speak the language. Besides, what am I supposed to do about something like women's rights in Saudi-Arabia or the plight of native people in the Brazilian rain forests? Post something on Twitter about it in English? Yeah, that'll fix it for sure...

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As a general comment: these terms are always "relative" to a degree. I grew up fairly poor in Western Europe; we never had money for anything, lived without electricity as a child for a while, didn't have things like car, computer, holidays, new clothes, etc.

If we compare my situation to various communities in, say, Nigeria I was "rich": clean running water easily available, good free education, good free health care, never truly went hungry, was never homeless, etc. By comparison, I was still "rich". Even in my own country I'm sure many people have had it much worse. Never mind if we start looking at the full historical context and start comparing against people 100, 200, 500, etc. years ago.

In spite of all of that, "I grew up poor" is a fairly accurate and reasonable description in the context of growing up in Western Europe.

Similarly, you might take issue that structural racism in the US is small compared to something like Casta (or Jim Crow, or many other things), and that is certainly true, but it's not a contest, and for the experience of contemporary people growing up and living in the US ... it doesn't really matter that some other people had it even worse.
Another personal anecdote, this person sounds like an extreme case to me. No one I know around that age is that bad.
So if I've got 10 acres that I'm keeping as an undeveloped wilderness to provide habitat for migratory birds to use during migrations and you've got 10 acres next to mine with a 200 unit apartment building on it we pay the same amount of tax?

That doesn't seem fair since your 10 acres is using way more of nearly every government service property taxes fund and requires more of nearly every government infrastructure that property taxes pay for.
In this hypothetical, the rest do object to the pet issues of others in the coalition, but only weakly. Like, I personally would vote against corn subsidies by itself, for abortion rights, and for a package of (corn subsidies plus abortion rights). The exact policies I mentioned don't particularly matter, I'm sure you can find your own set of two issues that you'd vote this way on if it came down to it - the issues you have an opinion on, but you'd hold your nose and concede the issue if it was the price of something really important to you.

And when two or more minority interest groups feel this way on each other's issues, it is a failure to enact the "will of the people" if you use strict issue-by-issue majoritarianism. After all, each individual pet issue fails on its own merits - they just aren't broadly popular enough.

Fundamentally, the issue is that strengths of preferences do not show up in a referendum on a topic. Furthermore, there's no way to credibly commit to a compromise that gets you something important in exchange for a relatively unimportant concession. I'm not saying these issues outweigh the benefits of direct democracy, they're just problems that can get solved by a representative system.
Oligopolies are the way of the world it seems.
Still, a good space navy & sufficient sensor coverage is the only real mitigation against people playing with KEWs.

Still I wonder how dangerous a mass driver launched rock from the Moon is as long as the mass driver is originally configured for cargo launch, so "just" a few km/s.

Still could do quite a bit of damage if it hits something but if it does not do any.manuevers &could be detected, then there should be ~days for arranging something to collide with it and turn it to plasma or dust.

But I guess if they could spam it & be creative with the resulting trajectories. Still the mass driver is fixed on the Moon surface, so it might not survive for long until it is itself hit by something in retaliation.
The Ladder of Abstraction
Yeah, he was really good in that role. And Musk role would be similar.
The question was, 'are local governments controlled by landlords?' Rent control is evidence that they are not.
It’s a trade off. You give Germany and France more control, but they are incentivized to backstop you. It seems the countries continuing to join the EU understand this and are at peace with it.

Tourism is one of the larger sectors in Croatia’s economy, so frictionless travel between them and other EU members is likely worth the arrangement. They also have a floating LNG terminal, very valuable due to recent events.

https://www.countryreports.org/country/Croatia/economy.htm
Ask HN: Recommended user authentication/management provider with paid accounts?
I'm wondering what people recommend these days for a third party user management system - signing up, confirming email, signing in, password resets etc. But specifically one that supports paid end user accounts so also operates as a merchant or a payment processor.

In other words, a typical third party auth like UserFront etc but one where that same third party auth provider will also take payments from my users as well. (And not just a payment provider that does subscriptions, as they'd be expected to support the complete day to day site user flows in addition to taking payments.)

In an ideal world all my server would ever need to do to support users and payments is something like grabbing a JWT from a cookie, validating it, and looking at the paid flag.

Is there a single provider you'd suggest for this? Or is it too many eggs in one (single point of failure) basket and you'd suggest separate services for the auth flows and the subscription payments - albeit ones which happen to work well together?
Makes me think of the early satellite photography that was captured using analogue cameras, which were mounted on satellites orbiting the Earth. When the satellite finished its mission, the camera would be released and fall back to Earth, attached to a parachute. A team of technicians would then locate the camera, retrieve it, and bring it back to a laboratory where the film would be developed by hand in a dark room. This process was labor-intensive and required a great deal of expertise in order to produce high-quality images.
See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_cale...

Per the article, 1752 was for the UK (Anglo world).
There are so so so so many reasons for this. Research data: hard to centralize because subject to impossible conflicting demands from funders and human subjects IRBs, and in the hands of ferociously independent faculty. Students: privacy laws and worse than that over-cautious university counsel and administrators who are afraid of running afoul of those laws. Administrative data: stuck in a bunch of individual bureaucratic buckets that don't talk to one another because universities are badly managed in general, also in the clutches of horrific enterprise software platforms made by the worst companies in the world (like oracle) and administered by IT people who aren't paid market rates.

University data projects tend to succeed if and only if they're turned over to librarians, who are typically the only people on campus who have any clue how to do such a thing.
I was just responding regarding using Turing completeness as a gauge of usefulness. Although I don’t know it well at all, I think Prolog is an awesome language and would like to know it more.
I think that you are severely overestimating the number of people who believe the political bullshit. A much simpler explanation is that the vast majority are simply lying about believing it. How would American right-wing voters behave if they actually believed that the election was stolen? They would boycott voting and they would do it loudly. But they don't actually believe it.

There is a word for this type of lie: vranyo.

Lying about believing that Trump will build a wall and make Mexico pay for it distracts you from addressing their actual motivations which they know are cruel and unjust.
If there's a limit, it's new and I can't find it in a quick search; I did find a 2014 PR that was rejected because dropping messages violates core semantics, IMHO killing the recipient would be OK though. Traditionally it's unbounded, but when you exhaust the memory of the host (or the ulimit, if set), you'll likely loose the whole VM.
One of Firefox's most annoying interface changes,to me at least. I used this thing all the time. Maybe there was more to it (I'm sure I could dig up the Bugzilla) but I used this feature all the time & can't imagine it was a huge maintenance burden.
I feel like this guy is my therapist and just told me a fantastic insight that's perfect for me at that moment.

As I was reading it, I came to the same conclusion as the writer -

You really have permission to free your mind of those people and just focus on taking care of the people who don't suck. Just expect it and move about your day.

That's freeing for me.
James assists Miss Sophie to “retire”. The same procedure as every year. wink wink
You see it differently but it's just not accurate, it's not in the guidelines super-explicitly so easy to miss.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22910444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 and there are many many others

Yeah, I see who you are.

I'm literally a random scold on the internet, I just happen to be right about this.
I would assume destructuring comes into play: https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html#stmt-let-destructure

Whatever underlying value would be moved out of the linear record by destructuring (and thus consuming) it, then released via the underlying platform's operation (e.g. close(2), CloseHandle, ...)

edit: from the linked section, it looks like field access is a linear operation:

> when you have a linear record type, you can’t extract the value of a linear field from it, because it consumes the record as a whole, and leaves unconsumed any other linear fields in the record

so for a "newtype" (a single field wrapper type) you can just access the one field, maybe.
Why not switch to USD?
I actually was in a terrible relationship with someone who I believe likely had NPD (IANAD. To establish I'm not making this up on the spot & provide more detail if you'd like to hear it, see this comment [1] from a year ago), and while it's true I did a bad job setting boundaries ("saying no"), the toxic manipulative tactics they used strongly remind me of the tactics in this document. They specifically told me I wasn't needed and wasn't helpful to them, multiple times every day, and when I would try to leave, they would tell me I was essential to them and that they would kill themselves if I left them. When I tried to erect boundaries, they would deliberately tear them down.

Establishing boundaries is healthy. Denying that you are in a relationship of mutual need is gaslighting. Establishing boundaries is about being honest about your needs and what you are able to provide in a relationship, and it requires making yourself vulnerable to someone; telling them where your tender spots are and asking that they not poke them. That is very much not what this document is about. This document is explicitly about denying people any possible leverage over you as a preemptive strike. Again, if it prescribed this behavior in the context of a sales negotiation, I'd have my thoughts on it, but I wouldn't comment on it. But it says, "go ahead and apply this idea literally everywhere," so I feel compelled to call that out for what it is.

May I ask if you have experienced a codependent relationship?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29781678
I’m sure it has been answered hundreds of times but every time you simply start over. Sort of like climate deniers saying “the climate is always changing “

How about making an effort and telling us what has already been explained to you?

Here are two routes: Los Angeles to San Diego and Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Explain how going to an airport is a better solution.
That might be the wrong way to look at it, or rather, it doesn't take into consideration the natural minimum.

It may be that just 5% of people will continue to break the rules _despite_ the bureaucracy.

So, how many of the 95% are following the rules _because_ of the bureaucracy? I suspect it's much higher than most people would care to admit.. just look what happens when the system or enforcement mechanisms break down.
Croatian Kuna was basically pegged to Euro by Croatian central bank. Large amount of loans and savings were in Euro already. Switching to euro was mostly a formality at this point.
Because no-one uses them.
> Go away.

As your amoral ideology masquerading as science ruins society and the planet you will find increasingly more "unconvincing folks" annoying your pristine reasoning
You don’t need any extra software to do this. You can reassign `⌘-V` to `Paste and Match Style` by running this in the terminal:

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Paste and Match Style' '@v';

I’ve been using this for years, and it works perfectly in most programs. If an app doesn’t have a `Paste and Match Style` option, its regular `Paste` command continues using `⌘-V`. But occasionally I want to paste an image and can’t because the `Paste and Match Style` command doesn’t work with non-text clipboard items.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
The case of the wolf and the sheep in Hong Kong
Why not, it can be a helpful starting point for self reflection.

Do most people even truly reflect on themselves, or do they lead lives of quiet desperation, the stereotyped unconscious despair?

Any thing that encourages introspection is good in my book.
Not my cup of tea, but I appreciate the effort and feel it'll help a lot of people immensely.

On the side note, I've noticed that the best and most actionable productivity articles made their way here in January every year.

Makes me that much more excited about January.
Yes, if they're not protecting the outside then what are they not doing on the inside