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Sadly. It disappoints me so much that linux hasn't been able to crack Windows dominance on desktop/laptop. I was sure that as more people became computer "literate", they'd shift to linux or bsd in droves. Boy was I wrong.

As opposed to the swedish vegetables that flourish in the swedish winter?

Good point. Also keep in mind the 5.5% of livestock emissions simply replaced the emissions by hundreds of millions of bison/buffalo, elk, deer, etc that we wiped out. So the livestock contribution is pretty much zero if you offset it with the loss of bison/buffalo, etc emissions.

And we have been in a global warming trend for thousands of years. Most of north america ( including NYC ) was under a sheet of ice, in some places sheet of ice 2 miles high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

It's disappointing to me that the nytimes would use climate change as a tool to push a highly environmentally and biologically destructive lifestyle like veganism. I wonder how many of the authors of the article has even farmed a day in their lives.

And the article reeks of ideology rather than news. Where is the news in the article? It's just pushing vegan propaganda which harms more young people everyday than nonsense like anti-vax movement. Vegans have starved their babies to death thinking that veganism is a healthy human diet. But I doubt they'd get as much backlash as the netflix '13 steps' producers did. The most environmentally and biologically friendly human diet is the omnivore diet. It has been since humans began and it will be while humans exist.

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is a well established idea. I wish journalists would simply report news rather than pushing destructive ideologies, especially since they haven't a clue what they are talking about most of the time. They aren't an expert in almost anything they write about. So why not stick to reporting? Why give "advice"?

I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Not sure how I managed to spell it incorrectly once and correctly once in the same sentence.

I completely agree. All these career advice and self-help are mostly useless. Pretty much success is "showing up" + "effort" + "luck". Luck is who you know, who your dad knows, how the economy is, where you are born, when you are born, what opportunities are available, etc. "Showing up" and "effort", you can control. Luck you can't.

The career advice and self-help industry are just modern day snake oil peddled to the gullible who are either lazy or who refuse to accept that luck plays a role in success.

The ambitious go dig for gold. The smart businessman sells shovels to the gold prospectors. The clever ones write self-help books for all the failed gold prospectors.

Eric Schmidt was the anti-privacy leader who dismissed privacy concerns.

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...

Keep in mind this is the same guy who blackballed CNET reporters for finding personal information on him through google search.

https://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/

The guy represents every wrong with tech. Privacy for him, but none for thee. And that's not even including on his shady ties to government.

I think Fukuyama's "End of History..." died a while ago. Actually, it probably never existed and was simply idealized wishful thinking. As they say, there can be no peace without war.

What's strange is that we know peace eventually ends. But I also can't see how we can have a war amongst nuclear powers. Could we have a peaceful war? Is it possible? Is that what the cold war was?

With the creation of the EU, rising china, resurgence russia, india, ASEAN, africa ( eventually ), the geopolitical landscape is going to change. From a historical, economical and demographic perspective, the geopolitical center should move somewhere in europe or asia from the US eventually. There are 1 billion more chinese. One billion more indians. 500 million more europeans. It is a strange quirk of history that the US is the leader of the world.

Well at least you can't accuse them of false advertising. Israel seems like one of those places where it's either a magical place or a complete disappointment. I've heard some say it's the best place they've ever visited and others say it is a complete letdown. I suppose it depends on how religious you are.

I've heard of companies forcing you to leave early for security reasons, but I've never heard of companies forcing you to stay. That's close to blackmail, but I suspect it would be difficult and expensive to prove in court. Sorry you had to go through that.

If it is on a massive scale, then how many "suspects" does britain have? Or can anyone be considered a suspect by a police officer? For all of britain's susposed outrage at facebook over their privacy violations, britain sure loves to do its fair share of violating privacy. This seems to be a trend everywhere now. No respect for privacy.

The article states "Researchers warn that their study could not prove causation.".

What about Romeo and Juliet? What about the Bible ( Jesus )? What about Socrates? Our cultural icons committed suicide. And if this show was funded Disney or NBC rather than Netflix, would we even have this study?

The 10-19 population in the US is about 42 million. And there was suicide increase of 195. Even if the study was true and all 195 committed suicide because of the show, should we stop the 42 million who didn't commit suicide from watching it?

I'm so disappointed at the comments here. Every single time, it seems like it's the "won't you think of the children" nanny state crowd supporting censorship. It's strange that art is being attacked and free expression.

Which is odd since the same people denouncing this show here are the same ones who attacked the study linking shows with transgender themes and increase in transgender association ( especially amongst young girls ).

So we do simply block everything anyone can say is bad for a small segment of the population?

Even more, do we stop the news from talking about it because doesn't the media coverage of suicide also increase suicides? Should media be banned from coverage suicide of celebrities? How much of the increase in suicide was a result of media coverage over the show?

Once again, is it because the demographics skews so old here? I just can't understand the shortsighted support for censorship here. How can someone be on "hacker" news and have a "nanny state" mindset.

Interesting. It looks like Korea and Egypt are also moving their capitals.

https://qz.com/1608402/indonesia-like-egypt-and-south-korea-...

I wonder if it is due to overcrowding or to separate business and political centers?

That's amazing dedication. Congrats. Did your power bill increase noticably?

Not sure how this is news. Learning anything, especially a new language, in middle age difficult. What am I missing here?

Rather than a personal website, I think having an "nonpersonal" website ( or domain ) in order to learn and play around with technologies like ( web server, database, dns, networking, etc ) is better. Though I guess you could do all that locally within your own intranet.

I'd stopped consuming so much cable news, it can rot your brain. And why did you edit out "China's human rights may be even worse" from your comment? That's certainly something that is up for debate.

"English-speaking people"? What's that?

Russia does bad things. China does bad things. The EU does bad things. We do bad things. What's strange is the sudden hysteria and relentless propaganda directed towards china and russia in particular. It's not like Russia and China were saints before.

George Washington's nickname was Town Destroyer ( for wiping out native american towns ).

https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/06/27/tow...

Thomas Jefferson on exterminating the natives.

"This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate."

General Sherman on exterminating natives

"After the 1866 Fetterman Massacre, Sherman wrote Grant that "we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman

The first governor of california - Peter Burnett.

Instead, the greed for gold wealth led to a second option which was, literally, termed a "war of extermination" by Governor Peter Burnett who declared warfare would not cease with Native Americans "until the Indian race becomes extinct"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hardeman_Burnett

The inescapable truth is this country ( and before if we include the pilgrims ) was subdued with conquest and series of genocides. Pretty much everyone political, academic and business leader implicitly or explicitly supported genocide. Of course some ( like Jefferson ) wanted to negotiate first but when push came to shove, they all supported explusion and/or genocide.

But they also did a lot of great things. You have to take the good with the bad. Else we are in an untenable position. Columbus was far more brutal to the natives and he didn't contribute anything to the growth of america ( like andrew jackson did ). George Washington was also far more brutal against the natives. What should we do? Rename Washington DC ( District of Columbia )?

The only reason Andrew Jackson is being targeted by the establishment today is because he was the most anti-central bank president we've ever had.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_War

In terms of his racist views and policies, he wasn't anything exceptional ( especially during the 1800s ). If we have to remove him, then we have to remove Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Sherman and an unending list of public figures. Where does it end? We should teach and accept that genocide and slavery was part of the making of america rather than try to hide it. And it's okay to praise Washington, Jackson, Franklin, etc for their part in founding and building the country and also condemn them for their wrongs.

What's the point of having a database for a static site though?

If there was demand for the services ( cooking, bike maintenance, simple math ), I'm sure schools would offer them. The point is who is going to pay to keep these schools open and pay the salaries of the teachers if people aren't willing to pay for these services?

Besides, with the internet, learning to cook, maintain bike or even basic math is available to most people. It's how I learned to cook.

And finally, the Hacker ethos is fairly anti-"schooling". Most hackers view school as indoctrination centers rather than centers of education. The idea of a "hacker" is being a curious free-thinker who tinkers and tries to learn things on their own. Maybe we should give everyone access to the internet so that they can seek the knowledge they want?

Rather than working as a pen tester, I'd rather work on developing pen testing, auditing, intrusion detection software. A lot of security has been and is going to be automated.

And pen testing isn't a "sexy" job. Not amongst security and software developers anyway. I see on the same level as QA.

Hong kong was never "democratic". Britain ruled hong kong for about 150 years and never allowed democracy or elections until China forced them to return hong kong. Oddly enough, Hong Kong became a "democracy" under Chinese Communist rule.

Taiwan wasn't a democracy until fairly recently. Ironically enough, the first elections in taiwan was created by the japanese when they conquered taiwan. When the nationalist chinese took over taiwan, they banned elections. It was only within the past few decades that "democracy" flourished in taiwan.

I suspect the only problem China has with the elites in hong kong and particularly taiwan are the pro-western elites. After all, Taiwan is a "client state" of the US and many of the nationalists and their descendents who rule taiwan are backed by the US.

Look at how much hysteria and suspicion there is about Trump's unproven collusion with Russia. The nationalists and their descendents in taiwan actually colluded with the west.

If china was really worried about "democracy" in Hong Kong, they would have simply not allowed it in the first place. And the idea that the elites of hong kong or taiwan care about democracy is simply not true. They, like all elites around the world, care about wealth and power.

It's not just the "influencers". It's the entire media system. 99.99% of traditional media and social media are just fillers with no substance or value.

And we are nowhere close to peak. Look at the hysteria developing on traditional media and social media for the pending "royal" birth.

But then again, who am I to judge. I'm on a social media complaining about social media.

The neverending mouse studies that rarely apply for humans.

"Misleading mouse studies waste medical resources"

https://www.nature.com/news/misleading-mouse-studies-waste-m...

"Why animal studies are often poor predictors of human reactions to exposure"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746847/

"Drugs That Work In Mice Often Fail When Tried In People"

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/10/5227754...

Not sure what the answer is to human medical testing and research since experimenting on humans is unethical. But mice shouldn't stand in for humans for human research since mice and humans are very different. I wonder how scientists in the future will look upon using mice for human medical research.

The topic of this thread is "what caused major cities to exist". The argument of the article was access to major hinterlands via rivers is why cities like london, nyc and shanghai exist. As you proved to me, the hudson didn't grant access to major hinterlands. It took the creation of the erie canal for access to the great lakes and mississippi.

I'll repeat my point for your edification. NYC was already a major city before the erie canal. As I stated, the erie canal was built because NYC was the most important city in the US. The erie canal didn't cause NYC to become the most important city in the US.

Yes, the hudson river with one of the world's major projects ( the erie canal ) eventually granted access to the hinterlands. But before the erie canal was built, it did not. Yet, NYC existed before the erie canal. Meaning without "access to the hinterlands via the artificially created erie canal", NYC would still exist because it did exist without the erie canal.

Using your logic, NYC shouldn't have even existed before the erie canal because it didn't have access to the "huge hinterlands". But we know NYC existed prior to the erie canal and access to the "huge hinterlands".

In additional what phicoh said, it's also one of the most popular OS in the world.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/minix-the-most-...

These news organizations and politicians care so much about privacy that they all have facebook accounts? I've never had a facebook and never will. I care about privacy. I don't think they do. So that leaves me wondering what they really care about.

Also, facebook and news companies are both in the same business - the ad selling business which is the cause of the privacy issue.

But that's not my concern. My concern is the obvious politically motivated move against one company and one industry by politicians, government agencies and news companies. When people start calling zuckerburg and sandberg ( who was hailed as a female hero by the media for many years until recently ) antisemites, you have to start asking question. No?

Don't you think it is odd that news companies ( who are supposed to be objective and report the news ) are advocating for fines? Shouldn't a news company simply report the fine rather than demanding more fine? Where's the objectivity? Shouldn't journalists report what is happening rather than advocating for something to happen?

I'm for reporting on facebook and privacy. It's an important issue for sure. What I also want is reporting on the reporting itself because that seems to be an even bigger story. I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but even I can see that there is more than reporting and news involved here.

And it's hard to take the news concerns about privacy seriously when they are all demanding preferential treatment on facebook's platform. Why don't the nytimes close their facebook account? Why don't they pull their headlines from facebook rather than demanding facebook prominently display their headlines and give their headlines top billing? When their words and actions don't align, it makes me wonder. I'm always wondering.

I count 45 if we include variations like "Windows Defender AV", "Windows Defender Security Center", etc.

Example from article : "Windows Defender ATP alert showing how detection of the Sharpshooter technique by Windows Defender AV is surfaced in Windows Defender Security Center"

And that's not including the text embedded in the images themselves - like the image of the event log ( Event 1127 - Windows Defender ).

You can't scroll through the article without a mention of Windows Defender. I don't know if they did it purposefully or not, but I'd say it was intentional. Hard to believe it was accidental.

Isn't this just a rehash of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19759490

I wish one day real journalists will look into how the "anti-facebook" media blitz happened. I've never used facebook and I hate the idea of facebook, but the politically motivated attacks that seem to stem from the highest level of governments ( across the atlantic as well ) and amongst the media need real investigating.

At this point, it isn't objective reporting, it's ideological advocacy grounded in political motivation. From zuckerburg and sandberg being accused of being antisemites ( when they themselves are jews ) to facebook being blamed for everything under the sun, one has to wonder what the hell is going on. There definitely is a story here, but it isn't facebook, it's the media. I doubt Mao's propaganda against the bourgeois was as relentless.

That's the exact opposite of what my history professor said. He said we only have a tiny fraction of roman documents and most of roman history has been "lost to history". Almost all the writings of romans has been lost and "roman history" is the surviving writings of caesar and a handful of other writers. Granted those writings are great works of art, but still, it's an extremely biased and unreliable account of history.

Now that doesn't mean that the romans crossed the atlantic. It just means we know so little of the past that it is embarrassing.

It probably won't for the long term. These "feel good" stories abound when times are good. Wait a few years and reality sets in ( even quicker if a recession hits ).

Maybe if they copy B&N's model and turn themselves into a coffee shop that sells books on the side, it might work. But they'd need the scale of B&N and locations near major universities with wealthy privileged students willing shells out lots of money for lots of books that their professors recommend.

In an environment of online shopping and expanding library services, bookstores face a lot of headwind. Why would you go to a bookstore when you can go to the library? Why would you buy can carry a bunch of books home when you can just order it online? If you can solve these problems, you could make a lot of money opening up bookstores all over the country.