That might be true but that doesn't mean we want to talk about it all day long every single day.
Obviously HN's moderation and flagging system is a long way from perfect, but in general it does work.
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Obviously HN's moderation and flagging system is a long way from perfect, but in general it does work.
Feel squeamish about bodily fluids? Don't worry the kids will cure you. Nothing like trying to do a Matrix style bullet time dodge when you are changing a nappy and the cold air makes your son let loose with a stream of pee.
And then they look at you and giggle and the world is perfect. Wouldn't change it for the word, but enjoy life first then have the kids. Its not worse just very very different and you can't go back.
Can someone explain what Russia gets out of this? I would have thought if anything it would be more likely to harden attitudes towards them.
On the other hand my employer and I imagine most other registries are not planning to shut off whois. Actual people in the real world still use it.
What ICANN aren't admitting is that while there was no formal RFC standard to the output of WHOIS ICANN themselves had mandated the output format of the WHOIS output. To go live with your shiny new gTLD you had to pass a test of your whois server output. It was strict enough that we had to remove an extra blank line is the disclaimer at the end of the output.
Every whois server I ever checked while writing my org's version supported UTF8.
The data has to be publicly available so authentication and encryption doesn't matter. In any case there is currently nothing requiring RDAP servers to authenticate anything.
The amount of search ability I've seen in most rdap servers so far is pretty limited.
The RDAP output is json but its complicated and there are so many options that realistically everyone is developing to pass the icann profile so no different to whois, and in the end we still live in a post GDRP world so all the useful data is redacted so none of this matters anyway.
On the other hand we clearly have much better banks the the USA does. Out of interest why other than crime or dodging tax would you ever carry large amounts of cash rather than just do a bank transfer?
What Aaron was trying to achieve was great, how he want about it is what ruined his life.
He put a laptop in a wiring closet that was DOSing JSTOR and kept changing IPs to avoid being blocked. The admins had to put a camera on the closet to eventually catch him.
He might have had good intentions but the way he went about getting the data was throwing soup at paintings levels of dumb activism.
For all the noise the real punishment he was facing was 6 months in low security [1]. I'm pretty sure OpenAI would have also been slapped hard for the same crime.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Arrest_and_prosec...
Edit: added link
I suspect that any heavily technical field has a risk of causing flaws personality flaws, but maybe I'm projecting.
FWIW all the doctors I know socially seem pretty well balanced other than maybe a tendency to crowbar the word Doctor into the conversation. MBAs are still worse though.
The more interesting question for me is once the baby boomers start dying off and population growth becomes a big fat negative is what will happen to property prices.
The same way that heart disease is strongly correlated with drinking diet soda. Once the person begins suffering from heart disease, diabetes etc they have a strong tendency to change their diet which causes the correlation.
No. Its definitely part of the solution but there are some issues that make it impractical as a full replacement.
In summer my panels make more power than I know what to do with and my batteries are full by about 10am. In winter only about 30% of my power comes from my solar. Heavy cloud cover typically takes my solar down to about 80% of what I get on a sunny day.
Falling battery prices will help to cope with rainy days but the winter drop is hard to avoid and running your own generator is VERY inefficient (i.e expensive) compared to a power station.
My old home HP printer is about 16 years old and still rock solid. If I didn't know any better I would be recommending the brand to everyone I know. Not everyone is as depressingly online as the HN community.
Companies have always tried to maximize their revenue. It might be faster now but the process is no different than your local supermarket messing with the price of toilet paper every few weeks.
State loudly and publicly that trans-women are men. Real world mothers, who buy most children's books, would find this uncontroversial to the point of being obvious but the resulting publicity from the outrage and attempted cancelling has at least in part driven her to have multiple books on the Amazon bestseller lists for YEARS at time.
The Plex UI is better but only a little bit better. On the other hand they are really REALLY irritating with re-enabling their online adverts. Every time you upgrade its comes back again. Or your actual content ends up deep in a menu but the online nonsense is always there. Also you end up having to create a plex account to access your stuff and I don't know how much information they are tracking.
I just got tired of having to re-set it up all the time. Jellyfin seems much better so far, but its still early days for me.
25+ years ago MySQL was fast and easy to admin but didn't have rollback and a bunch of other features. At the same time Postgres had the features but was horrible for performance and usability. Those days are LONG gone. Mysql obviously has all the features and PG is great to admin and the auto-vacuum works well out of the box.
I run a bunch of clusters of pg servers around the world and they need almost no maintenance. In place upgrades without needing to go the dump/restore route work well, 5 minutes on a TB sized database, just make very VERY sure you do a reindex afterwards or you will be in a world of pain.
No they don't. There are some complete nutters in Western politics who have never been jailed and are not likely to be. They are more likely to face the consequences of any law breaking where the "ruling classes" wouldn't and are also far more likely to be under scrutiny by someone looking for a reason to justify the prosecution but they do need to actually commit the crime.
Absolute Monarchies seem to be much better at getting things done because they can avoid the committees but Western Democracicies overall are much more reasonable and tolerant of dissent, even if not by as much as is claimed.
If you like Whiskey its an interesting change from Scottish single malts.
In Harvard's case yes. They have an appalling record of trying to suppress views they don't like for students, speakers, and staff. https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...