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> Some argue that the biblical passages against homosexuality are actually mistranslations

The Catholic position is that is not possible, for a few reasons:

1. The Doctors of the Church (a period of early writers from the first 300 years or so of Christianity), when they unanimously agree on an issue, are considered to be inspired by the Holy Spirit and almost certainly infallible. The discipline of the Church is to treat them, on unanimous agreements, as such.

2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 has Saint Paul explicitly stating that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God. Maybe this is a mistranslation; but when Ezekiel 16:50 uses a word from Greek that means "sexually disgusting," Leviticus 18:22 remarks that it is an "abomination," and Jude 1:7 states that "Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion," it's very hard to claim that all the verses were mistranslations. If that is the case, we may as well say that the Bible is not inspired and is not infallible - which would, quite literally, mean the Catholic religion (or any Christian religion) has no reason to exist.

3. If rape and inhospitality were the primary sin of Sodom; the men of the city would have been willing to take Lot's suggestion of using his daughters for their appetites. Lot was also an "outsider" in a cultural sense already - so it would stand to reason (as multiple commentators point out from ancient and modern sources) that if it was purely about violence to the stranger, Lot's offer should have been acceptable. The fact that Lot's offer was not acceptable shows the homosexual inclinations of the city.

With the above evidence, the Catholic position is that while inhospitality was certainly part of the condemnation upon those cities, it was not the primary cause. The alternative position is, correctly or not, a modern view to explain away the inconvenient.

Edit: Also, fun fact, there is a city that is in the correct place, dating back to the correct time, that appears to have been destroyed from an asteroid. There's no evidence to prove with certainty that it is Sodom, but that's because almost nothing from the city survives. Either it is Sodom or it inspired the story, but it's interesting. I can admit though that the odds of a massive asteroid perfectly landing on a city of only 8,000 people certainly seems divine.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/destruction-of-cit...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2018/12/04/new-science...

Edit 2: The Bible is infallible in the Catholic view. Vatican II explicitly stated: "The books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation." This does not mean that little historical or otherwise facts may not be different, so the term preferred on a technical level is inerrant.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_coun...
You're completely right here, but I need to add: "ethnic Russians" are too a colony of Moscow, as the federal power puts all Russian regions in the position economic depression with how the mechanism of taxes and internal debt are implemented. Almost all regions are "dotational", which means that the federal government gives them money to cover their budget deficits, but this was not always the case.

This isn't about ethnicity, this is about strongmen in Moscow draining the country to fuel the ambitions and comfort of muscovites.
Thanks... not sure how I managed to screw up the copy part of the copy&paste...
Come on, surely you don't believe your own argument. If thermostats can offer fractional-degree adjustment in fahrenheit, they can offer it in celsius.
Good to know, thanks. I think that SNAP design is only feasible in space, or maybe the polar regions on Earth, since it requires a cold source on one side of the converter that is cheap or free to produce.
I would love to pay for a service that connects all my subscriptions and finds out how much I pay for them hourly basis but it would be hard to make it work with the existing APIs I assume.
A priest may bless a sinner, to help him overcome his sins. Priests don't need to betray their faith to bless homosexual couples.
You can insist on your own personal meanings for clear statements as much as you like, but it won't have any effect on the legal interpretation of those statements.
Over the timescales we’re talking about, most all of the evidence would be shredded, compacted, oxidized/metamorphized then the above, filled with sediment then the above, etc.

One example of those - Intact fossils are very rare, and life has been ever present on the surface of the planet a billion+ years, near as we can tell.

That said, unless they weren’t around for long or didn’t have much success/impact, some difficult to dismiss evidence would likely to be present somewhere we ran across already - like fossils. Even if 99.99999% of all our evidence gets subducted, anyone doing as much digging 50 million years from now as we’ve done recently would have a hard time missing all of traces we’ve left.

A really weird set of isotopes and geological features
(like in Oklo, but not explainable naturally) from something like the National Test Site, or a layer of something like lead or mercury or radioisotopes in the sediment record not explainable by other means (like we’ve left), or a landfill full of plastic+stainless steel+carbon since metamorphized, or weird geological features like road fragments with no plausible natural explanation.

So unlikely, but not impossible. We are talking lengths of time 1000x (approx.) the furthest back of our own artifacts we’ve found.
Take a look at their five other industry-leading products. UX design was never their forté, but they have the rest of the design world in the bag.

As a former designer, I can tell you from experience that the designers I encountered would much rather have the newest tools at their hand for a subscription fee than be behind in software. There's so much the competitors cannot do (or can't do well), and if your prodcut doesn't work on a subscription model you're never going to be giving the latest features away in updates.
The problem is that accessibility has been treated as an afterthought, so designers, UX and people crafting HTML usually are not in habit of embedding accessibility into their works. It often comes when someone disabled complaints or if there is a regulation they didn't know about and there is "oh sh..." moment where accessibility is tacked onto already done project.

So it's difficult in the sense that people don't think about it, there are not so many tutorials available and so on.
All its users have, as Beeper is aware, and Beeper has taken extensive steps, predicated on the existing of that customer agreement (in fact: meaningful only because of that agreement) to help them renege.
Here we go again: Leave that damn windows bootloader alone. Create new partition for the new bootloader, set it as default boot partition. When booting choose "Windows boot mgr" in GRUB (may need to run osprober), it'll work fine. This way windows can keep it's bootloader healthy, and you can boot to both OSes.
Can the mods please fix the title? "$x/h" is fairly common but the capitalization threw me off. With most units (especially in SI/metric but also others) capitalization can be the entire difference between two units, e.g. MW (megawatts) vs mW (milliwatts) or g (gram) vs G (gravity).
Catbots???
Are there any official Nazi regiments or heros officially admired by the US? (In Russia you have the motorcyle gang with strong links to neonazism who are buddies with Putin edit: but upon a quick check, that might have been propaganda from the other side).
My feeling is that Beeper leadership saw the kid's hack and adopted it without thinking it through. They could've designed it in a way that didn't depend on unauthorized access to Apple services.
Or if demand for steel increases
How many CPU cores can you use in parallel?
Couple finish pole-to-pole electric car challenge
If a car dealership had a parrot in their showroom named Rupert, and Rupert learned to repeat "that's a deal!", no judge would entertain the idea that because someone heard Rupert repeat the phrase that it amounted to any legally binding promise. It's just a bird.

It's a pet, a novelty, entertainment for the bored kids who are waiting on daddy to finish buying his mid-life crisis Corvette. It's not a company representative.

> If someone claims to be representing the company, and the company knows, and the interaction is reasonable,

A chatbot isn't "someone" though.

> Try convincing a judge that the above was on purpose, by a 62 year old farmer that's never heard of AI.

I don't think you know how judges think. That's ok. You should be proud of the lack of proximity that you have to judges, means you didn't do anything exceedingly stupid in your life. But it also makes you a very poor predictor of how they go about making judgements.
> They had a marginal role compared to the west only in so far as they didn't produce as much as we did in the west

Yep, exactly, they had a marginal role.

> This would never happen in north korea or former soviet union

Those are not socialist countries though, just plain old dictatorships. It would also not happen in Pinochet's Chile or Franco's Spain or any other fascist dictatorship supported by the US.

> We all know what communism is, we know what socialism is

My point: I don't think most on HN do.

> I am not sure why you are trying to make up some argument there.

Because socialism is not what the first comment was implying it is. And socialism doesn't mean State capitalism USSR style.

What is the role of the Arab countries in the World's pollution?

Are they not capitalist?

What is the role of the capitalistic countries such as the USA in the World's pollution?

Are they not capitalist too???

The argument presented is a fallacy, not supported by facts and it does not even present the argument correctly.

To be perfectly clear

> you live in a capitalist society not some socialist nightmare. Giving it to the government would be much much much worse.

That whole sentence is one big straw man.

- The opposite of capitalist society is not "some socialist nightmare"

- a capitalist society is not the opposite of a nightmare

- socialist doesn't mean "giving it to the government"

- giving it to the government is not proven to be worse, it is in fact the opposite, we are specifically commenting on "3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public". Because the public, the government, is the one in charge of not letting these kinds of things happen. This story is proof against the private sector, not the opposite, which, again, is a "No true Scotsman" at this point.

To be even more clear, no government would kill its people to profit and even if they did, sooner or later the people would overthrown it.

But a private company will without doubt do it, using every trick in the book to cover up their responsibilities, because they do not respond to the people.

We have tons of evidence in support of the thesis.

And that's why we have laws to avoid it and agencies devoted to controlling that nothing like that happens.

Unfortunately they can be powerless against corporations with huge budgets and reach.

> Noan Chomsky lived in academia

This is called ad hominem. Noam Chomsky is a highly respected researcher, you should disprove his works, which are public and available to everyone BTW, if you really believe he's wrong, not attack the person.
Beeper isn't "reselling infrastructure" they're building a compatible clone of Apple's infrastructure. And yes, a variety of companies have reverse engineered and copied Amazon S3 for example.

The difference is that Apple's business model is built around preventing you from communicating with iMessage while Amazon is happy to let you copy things from anywhere into or out of your Amazon S3 bucket (for a price.)
Of course, anytime you pay send a wire from your e-banking, make a purchase online, subscribe to a streaming platform, etcetera. You and the counterparty are entering into a binding legal responsibility. Scenarios in which the two sides are software include trading algorithms.
I could definitely see MSFT making an attempt, to bring Figma + VSCode closer together.
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> this kind of hallucination is new and unexpected

I don’t think it’s new or unexpected at all. Remember the lawyers who used ChatGPT and it ended up fabricating case law?

ChatGPT is interesting and all but it’s seriously untrustworthy.
Same goes to you. Not sure why you think that a representative on the company website is not representative of the company.
How much does figma lose from a year's worth of operational focus being distracted by this impending merger?
I bought the Affinity Suite during Black Friday, just to have some decent software on mac to do some editing. I'm far from a professional though and I have no idea how good their software actually is.
Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real
They absolutely did. AOL in particular used a buffer overflow bug in AIM to execute arbitrary code to determine if the client was actually AIM or a third-party client pretending to be AIM.

MSN Messenger and Yahoo IM both cried foul about this and called out for interoperability, but then turned around and denied third-party clients access to their own networks once they got big enough.
You're correct in that not the requoting that makes Friedman's dictum true. It's the basic math.

The aggregate price level is equal to the money supply, times the velocity of money, divided by the volume of transactions. The duty of monetary policy is to size the money supply accordingly. When the central bank fails in that task, or is overwhelmed by fiscal recklessness, you get inflation. Everywhere and always. By "phenomenon", he's not talking about the proximal cause; he's talking about the policy point of failure.

And it sure as heck has zero to do with excessive javascript and Google search trends.
Apple to Stop Selling Some Apple Watch Models on Patent Loss
Monetary Base != Money Supply

M2 money supply, please read the part where the formula changed in 2020: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

> I know that most people say that M0 is only a small factor in price increase and other factors like credit given by banks, the speed at which money moves and spendin/saving behavior play a bigger role. But I doubt that.

Please don’t take offense, but I doubt that you understand what you’re talking about given the fact that you confused monetary base and money supply.
TLS certificates are free. Unsigned certificates are super scary and invalid. SSH and TLS do not work with the same threat model; first-contacts with SSH servers are comparatively rare (if they aren't, you should be worried about your SSH threat model, too).
4K plan is $23/mo.
You should listen to Steve Keen on this subject.

He doesn’t agree with you. He has a great podcast called Debunking Economics.
That would explain the wonky headline: "AVM droht ..." means "AVM is threatened with ..." but could be misread as "AVM threatens ..." ("AVM droht mit ..." or "AVM droht: ..."), especially in a cheap/automated translation.
Definitely not true for Telegram, they are completely open about the client side infrastructure: https://telegram.org/apps (and there are dozens of third party clients, some even linked on their official website)
Give the chatbot API access to make tickets and it could be used as a more intelligent "FAQ linker" which is what most older non-GPT chatbots did. It can figure out if the issue is a common one and link to the FAQ/spit out the relevant FAQ answer, or make the ticket if not.

Seems like a decent middle ground between "this chat bot is actively making this issue take longer to resolve" and "Oops looks like the chat bot deleted my entire account "somehow."
I think the issue is that when you buy up your competition there’s nothing stopping you from charging obscene prices in either direction. Charge low to wipe out potential competitors then high when there’s no one left. It very clearly stifles innovation and god knows we don’t regulate monopolies anymore.
https://archive.ph/9Y0pX
I was thinking two non-Apple users could use the iMessage protocol through Beeper. Maybe that's not possible?
Very much so. Can't speak of India specifically but in my experience with adsense, some of the countries with a similar to India gdp per capita often pay out 50 to 70 _times_ less than the US rates.
It’s a peak Hn comment.

“I’m not an economist but here is my …”

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Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist, has said that most of the inflation we saw was markups - ie firms raising their prices due to inadequate amount of competition.

Here is an 50 min long talk on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAsZIHp9HI&t=1217s
I would have thought it overkill to memory manage scrapers by hand. Do you need such succinct memory usage?
We have best practices and movies about having too little control of other people's systems too. If law, morality, and debate only required finding whether there was a negative outcome they would be trivial. Unfortunately that doesn't yield practical results. Things need to be weighed and debated on a larger scale.

Throwing in my perspective: I largely agree with the DMA and think while iMessage was found not to be popular enough to qualify in Europe we should have something similar in place in the US and it certainly has enough penetration here to qualify under the same wording. I.e. I think we need something between "free rein" and "monopoly" for very large players which has practical effects on how you're required to interop.
The Catholic Church is a large ship, and it takes a long time to change directions. This is a big step in the right direction. It’s not the end, but it’s progress towards good.
You can construct a catapult and try to catch the phone with a blanket, as done by the previous record-holders in Brazil: https://youtube.com/watch?v=27oI0omSXdY&t=80
Oh thank god. I've used Adobe tools professionally for about two decades now. They are too big, and their software suffers for it. Sigma is rad. I'm glad they aren't going to get enshitified by Adobe.
Adobe's vision is fully supporting the content lifecycle, not only the creative aspect. In this sense, Figma made far more sense for Experience Cloud rather than what it gives to Creative Cloud.
> Companies are not held liable for things that cannot be delivered

A car for $1 can be delivered without any issues because delivering cars is their business model. It's their problem if their representative negotiated a contract that's not a great deal for them.
Yes but loading weights into memory takes time
It's important to distinguish between the logical structure of an ideology and the moral or ethical implications of that ideology. Your argument appears to hinge on the assertion that fascism lacks a coherent logical framework, dismissing it as primarily propaganda without a logical core. However, identifying the logical structure of an ideology doesn't necessitate endorsing its moral standing.

Fascism, as historically understood centers around certain key principles such as the ones I provided above (authoritarian leadership, nationalism, and collectivism over individualism etc). These principles form a coherent, if morally contentious, framework. The logic in this context refers to the internal consistency and the cause-and-effect relationships within the ideology. For example, the fascist belief in authoritarian leadership is logically connected to its emphasis on national unity and strength, as authoritarianism is seen as a means to achieve and maintain this unity.

Your reference to "might makes right" does encapsulate a belief system, within the context of fascist ideology, it also follows a logical pattern. The ideology posits that strength (might) is necessary for national revival and dominance, and therefore, actions that lead to increased strength are justified (right). This is a form of logic, albeit one that many find ethically objectionable.

Regarding the rejection and persecution of science, this was not a reflection of the inherent logic of fascism but rather a consequence of its authoritarian nature, where any dissenting ideas, including scientific ones, were suppressed to maintain control.

Moral and ethical criticisms of fascism are valid, but they are distinct from an analysis of its logical structure. The logical coherence of an ideology is separate from its moral standing, and it's possible to examine the former without endorsing the latter.
This sounds on point.

In the small startup M&A market, maybe 50% of deals are falling through? Of the 50% that don't fall through, the vast majority are closing only after being renegotiated in the last hour, e.g. buyers promising to pay $x, but in the last hour the buyer changes their offer to $x/2.(These are deals with zero regulatory review)

Most common issues is buyers backing out because they couldn't secure the debt to finance the deal like they expected they could, multiples decreasing in the market, investor sentiment shifting away from riskier tech ventures, etc.

If those trends in small company M&A also apply to large company M&A, the parent's hypothesis is very valid.
China is subtly increasing military pressure on Taiwan
we have no idea when they filed what papers where ... and when regulators answered and what, and then how the companies reacted, and when, and ...

on the announcement, Sep 15, Adobe stock fell by 17%. the FTC opened some investigation on Nov 2. some EU thing started its process in February (based on filings by refering countries, and of course we have no idea of the details of those country-level processes)

so, all in all, it's likely that relevant authorities quite soon signaled that Adobe-Figma is facing an uphill battle, and now, as they announced, they backed down.

we have no idea of the negotiations, who was fast or not, who recommended what, asked for what guarantees, and so on.
Wow, I had no idea there was even demand for this kinda thing. I guess I assumed all setups were like my MQTT server that takes events from a few Zigbee devices every few minutes.
One more misinformed HN top comment.
> To me it seems those are all indirect, delayed outcomes of the money supply.

Banks lending is an increase in the money supply.
That's so true, it's almost like a return to the beginning (Yahoo Web Directory). We need to find a way to curate content that scales but in a way that eliminates the incentive for bad actors to try SEO-like approaches to game the process.

That feels impossible without a feasible alternative to the ad-based revenue model.
I've always wondered about the people who do this. Do they realise what the purpose of a headline is? It is to encourage the reader to invest time in a story. Usually that involves summarising it down to the bare minimum while still making it interesting.

I suppose I could have written "You'll never believe how this USB gadget cures holiday nightmares!" but that does feel like click-bait.

I considered writing "A gadget which is powered by USB-C cures the common effects of mosquito bites in a sample size of 1" but that felt needlessly verbose.

So, my question back to you is this - how would you rewrite the headline? What short sentence would you use which maximises the twin constrains of accuracy and brevity?
No, because Electron embeds Chromium/Chrome, Tauri uses whatever the platform already has.
I get the sense that people increase prices just because everyone else is increasing prices. Even if nothing increased for you since "everything" is increasing might as well increase because now is when you can get away with it.
My intuition tells me that if you need to explain your UI before presenting it then you've probably failed at designing it.

Maybe I'm too old school in that "Design of Everyday Things" sort of thinking.

Nobody has to explain to me what to do with a cup because it's not shaped like a banana.