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"Last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year."

"One of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950"

this fcc comment is so uninformed. getting rid of net neutrality will make service way better because you will be able to pay for a line with prioritized access for video conferencing and remote presence. net neutrality is what makes it impossible for individuals with a public isp connection to get the same quality as corporations with their own private networks.

not everyone has the discipline to work in an office either. not sure the proportion is any different.

who is backing yarn?

I have run some very simple tests and performance is very close for real world complex apps, ~10% faster for an express hello world and ~10% slower for http stack only.

Basically TF is at parity on average but slower for code like the node core that was highly optimized to the particularities of crankshaft.

Hopefully npm 5.3.0 actually works since 5.0.0 was completely broken for me.

v7.10.0

Test suite for real world app

real 0m29.669s user 0m5.376s sys 0m0.356s

v8.3.0

Test suite for real world app

real 0m30.180s user 0m5.420s sys 0m0.220s

v7.10.0

Express Hello World

Requests per second: 6751.08 [#/sec] (mean)

HTTP Hello World

Requests per second: 13407.31 [#/sec] (mean)

v8.3.0

Express Hello World

Requests per second: 7734.33 [#/sec] (mean)

HTTP Hello World

Requests per second: 12601.42 [#/sec] (mean)

I am not sure that creating burner accounts to libel people by name is an entirely appropriate use of this site no matter what your personal feelings are.

You don't have any evidence to substantiate any of what you are writing and this individual has no opportunity to respond to what you are writing.

This is highly unprofessional behavior no matter what you think the justification is.

"Worse, one of the biggest obstacles that minorities face is a chicken-and-egg problem that time alone doesn’t cure. People avoid professions in which there are few people like them. This is a hurdle which affirmative action can remove, fast and efficiently."

I think this assumption is made by most people but unfortunately simply filling slots based on socially constructed identity labels does not seem to be effective in addressing underlying inequalities.

For instance, we have had "race" based affirmative action policies for universities for decades but very limited effect in having those policies translate into balancing income and wealth gaps between socially constructed race groups. In fact those gaps have widened considerably over the past couple decades.

I think that people still fail to understand the extent of sub-conscious prejudice and fail to understand that the programs they are putting in place to try to solve inequalities between socially constructed identity groups are actually reinforcing the underlying causes of those inequalities instead of eliminating them.

nothing about the ruling says that. the ruling itself just says they affirm a lower court ruling being appealed so it is not clear exactly what they are ruling on.

the key thing here is that this was a lawsuit by some guy against the police alleging damages from deprivation of rights (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983)

that is a very different situation from the police charging him with a crime for making recordings.

basically just more stupid ill-informed sensationalist journalism.

the judgement is actually pretty useless here since it just says they affirm the lower court ruling which was being appealed and doesn't include any reasoning on why.

apparently they have a lot of experience with tyrannical government.

definitely. i have worked with perl and php extensively and ruby and python occasionally and personally prefer js to any of them.

horribly.

plain old javascript is perfectly fine. es6 is better. if you can't write good apps with js it is because you aren't a good programmer and you wouldn't be able to write good apps in any language.

server side rendering and progressive enhancement is still be best approach for the vast majority of apps.

in the end "cord cutting" is going to be paying the same price as before for cable, but only getting internet, plus paying ala-carte licensing fees that are higher than what the content companies previously charge on cable because now they are selling to individuals instead of a collective.

already cable companies and fios price internet so that you pay only a little more for a full cable package. even if you drop cable you still have to pay extra to subsidize it.

investing in high efficiency gasoline engines is a much better bet. the world will be running on gasoline for decades at least. even if europe (doubtful) or US (very doubtful) pull out of gasoline there will still be billions of potential customers around the world.

2040 is a long way away. very easy to pass laws that take effect after you retire. and very easy to change them after you retire as well.

this is interesting work but at least on the node side I am going 100% native async/await promises after node v8.3.0 is released. whatever small advantages more advanced libraries may offer are for me overwhelmed by writing standard spec compliant code now that the spec and implementation are finally (almost) up to par.

the hype machine on the other side is massive though. you have tens of thousands of "investors" flooding every communication channel with bitcoin talking points and saying how much money they have made.

These "white hat" people are really amusing. They sell weapons to criminals and then sell the defense to the victims and then act all indignant when they get arrested.

Great. They convicted one low level autistic freak with no connections over a couple million dollars. Brave day for justice.

What about the daughter of a senator who is the CEO of the company that quadrupled the price of epipens? Yeah, right, mission accomplished, nothing to see there.

> The indictment does not say Hutchins designed Kronos or sold Kronos. Rather, it says that he provided computer code to a second party to update Kronos.

> Overt Acts in Furtherance of the Conspiracy

> a. Defendant MARCUS HUTCHINS created the Kronos malware.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...

well, yeah, what exactly are those "reviews" of? since there are no finalized models and prices they are reviewing a bespoke demo unit not a production model that can be purchased. Even with Consumer Reports they gave an excellent review on the Model S but then withdrew it later because of reliability so even with independent credible reviewers the initial impression does not necessarily tell the whole story.

yeah, the thing about shutting down hospitals is that instead of looking at fraud and computer crimes that probably won't even be investigated you are potentially looking at manslaughter.

Interesting that the WannaCry bitcoin account was emptied at about the same time.

https://qz.com/1045270/wannacry-update-the-hackers-behind-ra...

Makes me wonder about this guy's real connection to that.

I always wonder why if people need these features so badly they don't just program in Java or C++?

launching to employees is critical. they all already have non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements. if they launched to real customers they would either have to force them to sign, which would be a PR nightmare, or suffer the negative blowback from a product that is not ready.

Just like all technology: wait for the independent tests and reviews before making judgements.

> more likely to get fixed everywhere fast openssl bugs were around for a very long time

exactly. a very shitty unique implementation is much less likely to be hacked than a near bulletproof implementation used by millions with a single flaw.

It is not that open-and-shut.

Unauthorized access to a computer system is a different legal category than IP licensing.